Startpage | UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal
Handbook on the use of risk knowledge for multi-hazard early warning systems 2024. New book chapter about the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) UN-SPIDER and ZFL participate in the Early Warnings for All Forum for Africa in Windhoek. ESA Ciseres Project: "AI-powered Satellite Systems will redefine how we respond to disasters".
About Us | UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal
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. Read more: What is UN-SPIDER?
What is UN-SPIDER? | UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal
Jan 1, 2018 · About UN-SPIDER. In its resolution 61/110 of 14 December 2006 the United Nations General Assembly agreed to establish the "United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response - UN-SPIDER" as a new United Nations programme, with the following mission statement: "Ensure that all countries and international and regional organizations have access to ...
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 …
Projects | UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal
UN-SPIDER supports and conducts projects that look at the use of space-based information for specific elements of risk and disaster management. UN-SPIDER’s projects aim to further promote universal access to all forms of space-based information to disaster risk management and emergency response to support the full disaster management cycle.
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.
Online Training Courses | UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal
Online Training Courses. Online Training Courses. 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 ...
About UN-SPIDER | UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal
About UN-SPIDER: In its resolution 61/110 of 14 December 2006 the United Nations General Assembly agreed to establish the "United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response - UN-SPIDER" as a new United Nations programme, with the following mission statement: "Ensure that all countries and international and regional organizations have access to ...
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 ...
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.