Startpage | UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal
Office for Outer Space Affairs UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal. UN-SPIDER / ZFL / Airbus Workshop: Improving radar-based flood mapping with DEMs. UN-SPIDER together with Airbus Defense and Space and the ZFL of the University of Bonn organized a technical workshop to discuss ways to combine radar and DEM data to improve urban flood detection.
Risks and Disasters | UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal
Disaster Risk Management. According to UNDRR, disaster-risk management is the systematic process of using administrative directives, organizations, and operational skills/capacities to implement strategies, policies and improved coping capacities; in order to lessen the adverse impacts of hazards, and the possibility of disaster.
What is UN-SPIDER? | UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal
Jan 1, 2018 · The programme supported emergencies in five countries and promoted the universal access initiative of the Charter on Cooperation to Achieve the Coordinated Use of Space Facilities in the Event of Natural or Technological Disasters among disaster management authorities of five countries. UN-SPIDER activities include technical advisory support ...
About Us | UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal
About Us. About Us. The "United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response" was established by the United Nations General Assembly through its resolution 61/110 of 14 December 2006. In its resolution, the General Assembly agreed to give the acronym UN-SPIDER to this programme.
Links and Resources | UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal
An effective use of space-based information in all phases of the disaster management cycle requires access to data and tools as well as knowledge of relevant methods. When data and data products are accessible and the capacity to use or create resources is built, countries as well as national or international organizations can create space-based products tailored to …
Recommended Practices | UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal
Recommended Practices make use of data from different satellites and sensors, for instance Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2. To allow as many interested users as possible to use these procedures, UN-SPIDER makes them available in a growing variety of GIS software packages and programming languages such as QGIS, R and Python.
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022 - UN-SPIDER
Jul 12, 2022 · "We must rise higher to rescue the Sustainable Development Goals – and stay true to our promise of a world of peace, dignity and prosperity on a healthy planet." (António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations) The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022 provides a global overview of progress on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, using the latest ...
Data Sources | UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal
Data Sources. Data Sources. This database provides descriptions of a large variety of satellite imagery, elevation models, land use and land cover maps as well as near real-time data products for different hazard types. You can search the database by data type or hazard as well as by other relevant factors including costs, temporal or spatial ...
Online Learning Resources | UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal
Online Learning Resources. Online Learning Resources. UN-SPIDER acts as a facilitator of capacity-building in the use of space-based information for disaster management and as a gateway to space information for disaster management support. In lines with these roles, the programme curates information about in person as well as online learning ...
Information Material | UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal
UN-SPIDER information materials provide an overview of what the Programme is and does.The leaflet gives a very rough idea about how space technology can support disaster management and about the reasoning behind the existence of UN-SPIDER and its main activities.The one-pagers go more into detail, each covering a particular activity of the Programme and explaining why and how they are carried out.