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Seventeen of the world’s most disaster-prone countries from Asia have been discussing how to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (Image: US Navy)
5 Jun 2015
ISDR Asia partnership meeting to implement Sendai Framework
Volunteers are mapping earthquake-inducted landslides in Nepal (Image: NASA)
5 Jun 2015
Scientist-volunteers map landslides from Nepal earthquakes
Pyxis provide precise weather forecasts (Image: US NOAA)
5 Jun 2015
New satellite-based sensors deliver unprecedented weather forecasts
Sentinel-2A in the cleanroom at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana (Image: ESA/F. Gascon)
4 Jun 2015
Copernicus satellite Sentinel-2A ready for launch
4 Jun 2015
Space Technologies for post-2015 development: New UN-SPIDER newsletter
Opencast mining image in the north-eastern of Antioquia, Colombia (Image: IGAC/CIAF)
4 Jun 2015
IGAC: Monitoring mining areas in Colombia
Screenshot from OpenArialMap
3 Jun 2015
OpenAerialMap: Rapid access to aerial imagery
Satellite image of UAE by DubaiSat-1 (Image: EIAST)
3 Jun 2015
Space agencies from UAE and UK cooperate to develop mapping applications
NISAR: the NASA-ISRO SAR Mission (Image: NASA)
3 Jun 2015
India and USA: Cooperation to monitor earth changes in high detail
The workshop is focusing on coastal hazard assessment
2 Jun 2015
UN-SPIDER supports UNESCO-IOC workshop on coastal hazard assessment

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