Office for Outer Space Affairs
UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal
Help Shape the Future of the UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal
The UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal is your one-stop platform for resources on space-based disaster risk management. It provides: • Links and guidance on satellite data sources and applications • Recommended practices and step-by-step methodologies • Training materials and tutorials • Case studies and user stories from real-world applications • News and updates on UN-SPIDER activities, events, and global developments
Since its last major review in 2012, the Portal has evolved significantly. Now, we want to hear from you.
We invite you to take part in the 2025 evaluation of the UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal!
Location: Bangkok, THAILAND
Date: May 31 - June 11, 2010
Visual presentation of disasters, vulnerabilities and related risks help the decisionmakers extraordinarily in making decisions in a matter of seconds. It also helps convincing the communities to change their behaviors/attitudes to be resilient against disasters.
The GRSDM course provides the participants the skills to evaluate the spatial data requirements in disaster risk management, integrate disaster risk assessments into urban planning and human settlement, apply GIS & RS for designing of large scale early warning systems, use Participatory GIS (PGIS) at community level to create awareness and community based disaster risk management plans, and hazard vulnerability risk models and analysis in a proper geo-spatial and cartographic framework.
