In the immediate aftermath, the UNDP Sri Lanka office reported facing severe challenges in obtaining ground-level damage data ...

UN-SPIDER's Disaster Response Report to the Cyprus Earthquake ...

69th Session On The Committee On The Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) ...

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The German Agency for International Cooperation or (GIZ) is an international enterprise owned by the German Federal Government, operating in many fields across more than 130 countries. As a federal ...

UN-SPIDER's Disaster Response Report to the Jamaica Flooding ...

Fire intensity represents the energy that is released from organic matter during the combustion process (Keeley, 2009). It also refers to the intensity of the fire while it is active. Burn severity, ...

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 ...

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The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has released its latest report titled "2023 Disasters in Numbers: A Significant Year of Disaster Impact", shedding light on the ...

Around 330-431M ha around the world is affected by forest fire every year (cf. Giglio et al. 2010). Forest fire is a natural hazard which can lead to large destruction of natural areas and livelihoods ...