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LPS brought together thousands of Earth observation scientists, policymakers, and industry leaders to explore how satellite ...
Digital Twins and Earth Observation: UN-SPIDER and ZFL hold presentation on Mapping for Disaster Risk Management at LPS 2025 ...
Digital Twins and Earth Observation: UN-SPIDER and ZFL Present Flood Mapping Innovations at LPS 2025 ...
Definition Wildfire, also called forest, bush or vegetation fire, can be described as any uncontrolled and non-prescribed combustion or burning of plants in a natural setting such as a forest, ...
CommonSpace Initiative - Digital Twin In Ghana and Trinidad and Tobago ...
Worldwide, storm surges pose a threat to coastal communities. Particularly in low-lying African coastal cities, the impact of climate change induced storms and sea level rise is a threat to the ...
Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Use a DEM with the highest resolution available. Some countries offer openly accessible high-resolution datasets; however, this is not the case globally. Partners such as ...
This version of the Recommended Practice is a revision (2024) of the original storm surge RP using the openly accessible and free Copernicus Digital Elevation Model with a resolution of 30 meters. The ...
UN-SPIDER has published a new Recommended Practice that leverages both Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Sentinel-2 optical imagery to improve flood detection and mapping. Developed by the ...