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A new UN-SPIDER user story highlights the critical role of space-based technologies in preventing dam failures and enhancing ...
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, jointly developed by NASA and the French space agency CNES with ...
NASA-ISRO Launch Enhances Global Capacity For Climate Monitoring and Disaster Response ...
The United Nations Office for Office for Outer Space Affairs has been organizing a series of workshops and conferences on ...
The 76th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) will be held in Sydney, Australia, with the countdown to this significant event now underway.
United Nations/Nigeria Workshop On The International Space Weather Initiative the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) ...
Space-based Information: The Sentinel Hub Playground provides a web GIS to explore satellite imagery from platorms Sentinel-2, Landsat-8 and MODIS. Sentinel and Landsat data can be displayed in a ...
Its mission is to ensure the right to health of the inhabitants of Guatemala, exercising the leadership of the health sector through conduction, coordination and regulation of the health services, and ...
On 23 July 2018, Saddle Dam D, part of the Xe Pian–Xe Namnoy hydropower project in southern Laos, experienced a catastrophic structural failure. This auxiliary saddle dam, designed to contain a ...
The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has released its latest report titled "2023 Disasters in Numbers: A Significant Year of Disaster Impact", shedding light on the ...
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and its Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER) are pleased to announce that the ...
Spacecraft orbiting Earth play a vital role in monitoring climate change, enabling global communication and navigation, and advancing scientific research. However, many of these orbits are becoming ...