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Utah Lake, captured by NASA/USGS's Landsat 8, June 20, 2017. The darker green area shows the highest concentration of algal blooms. Image: NASA.
21 May 2021
Harmful Algal Blooms: The Importance of Early Satellite Detection
Image captured by Sentinel-2 on February 8 2021 of the Fuego volcano (left), Pacaya volcano (right), Guatemala City (upper right), with volcano lava visible in red. Image: Sentinel Hub, ESA.
14 May 2021
Increased Volcanic Activity in Guatemala in 2021: Fuego and Pacaya
An image of an asteroid in outer space, image courtesy of NASA
7 May 2021
UNOOSA hosts the 7th Planetary Defense Conference
2020: The Non-COVID Disasters
6 May 2021
The non-COVID-19 disasters in the year 2020
3 May 2021
Peru's INDECI & CONIDA host webinar on the use of satellite technologies in disaster risk management research
Official Logo of the Algerian Space Agency. Image: ASAL.
13 Apr 2021
ASAL provides EO data to the International Charter Space and Major Disasters
JAXA logo. Image: JAXA.
13 Apr 2021
JAXA and NTT DATA embark on joint research to improve 3D mapping for disaster management
Arctic Northwest Russia. Image: ESA (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO).
30 Mar 2021
ESA and OHB Sweden sign contract for prototype satellite to gather Arctic weather data
Fires in the Amazon as seen from Space. Image: ESA/NASA–L. Parmitano.
30 Mar 2021
GWIS launches country profiles to support wildfire risk management in LAC region
Space4Youth Competition Winners 2019 and 2020. Image: UNOOSA.
25 Mar 2021
Space4Youth Competition 2021 launched

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