CENACARTA is a member of the Mozambique Coordination mechanism for disaster management, thus contributes to disaster management. Data is being provided to INGC within its activities in emergency ...

Digital Twins and Earth Observation: UN-SPIDER and ZFL Present Flood Mapping Innovations at LPS 2025 ...

Digital Twins and Earth Observation: UN-SPIDER and ZFL hold presentation on Mapping for Disaster Risk Management at LPS 2025 ...

LPS brought together thousands of Earth observation scientists, policymakers, and industry leaders to explore how satellite ...

The Department of Surveys, commonly known as Survey of Kenya (SOK), is the official agency of the government of Kenya on all matters affecting land surveys and mapping. It has been in existence since ...

A Regional Support Office (RSO) is a regional or national centre of expertise that is set up within an existing entity by a Member State or group of Member States that have put forward an offer to set ...

The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), together with the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), ...

The International Charter on "Space and Major Disasters" is a worldwide collaboration among space agencies, through which satellite-derived information and products are made available to support ...

This practice can be applied globally. It has been applied successfully for floods in Australia, Africa and Asia. The precondition for SAR water detection is a smooth water surface. False alarm can ...

Risks represent the presence of vulnerable elements in areas exposed to hazards. For over a decade, UNDRR and other regional and international organizations have reported that such risks arise due to ...

File type: asc, asc, GeoTIFF, kmz Data type: elevation Hazard: Mass Movement, Flood Disaster cycle phase: Disaster Risk Management Space-based Information: SRTM Spatial coverage: Global Spatial ...

The objective of this Recommended Practice is to determine the extent of flooded areas. The usage of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery for flood extent mapping constitutes a viable ...