Copernicus Sentinel-6B Takes Orbit To Strengthen Global Sea-Level Monitoring ...

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HydroGNSS and Partner Missions To Strengthen Water-Cycle and Environmental Monitoring ...

UN-SPIDER’s Response To The November 2025 Afghanistan Earthquake ...

The joint NISAR (NASA–ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission has captured its first radar images of the Earth’s surface, previewing data that will soon support global monitoring of land, ice, and ...

Esri, NOAA, and Dewberry have joined forces to modernize mapping across 64 remote and underserved communities in Alaska. Many of these communities are located in the state’s vast Unorganized Borough, ...

Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, 26 August 2025 – Luxembourg successfully placed its first national Earth observation satellite, the National Advanced Optical System (NAOS), into orbit aboard ...

A new UN-SPIDER user story highlights the critical role of space-based technologies in preventing dam failures and enhancing disaster preparedness. On 23 July 2018, Saddle Dam D, part of the Xe ...

Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) — the convergence of satellite-derived data with modern machine-learning techniques—has become a decisive factor in global disaster-risk governance. In ...

UN-SPIDER has released a new Recommended Practice that improves flood mapping by integrating Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery with Digital Terrain Models (DTMs), offering a more accurate and ...

On 05 December 2024, the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite. The satellite was carried into orbit by a Vega-C rocket, lifting off from Europe’s ...

The World Space Forum 2024, organized by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in collaboration with Germany, Peru and the United Arab Emirates, has officially opened its doors in ...