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Central-pivot agricultural fields along the Orange River in South Africa. Image: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2016), processed by ESA.
29 Jul 2020
Funding collective issues RFP for labeled agricultural datasets to support ML in Africa
Report cover page. Image: UNESCAP.
23 Jul 2020
UNESCAP publishes report on protecting the most vulnerable from climate extremes and COVID-19 in South Asia
Image: UNFPA.
21 Jul 2020
Satellite data supports UN anticipatory humanitarian action in Bangladesh
Image: ESA.
6 Jul 2020
ESA releases call for Earth Explorer 11 mission ideas
UNOOSA Annual Report 2019.
25 Jun 2020
UNOOSA releases 2019 Annual Report
Federal University of Santa Maria Logo. Image: University of Santa Maria.
17 Jun 2020
Federal University of Santa Maria joins network of UN-SPIDER Regional Support Offices
Global 3D model of urban areas, generated using TanDEM-X Satellite data. Sophisticated AI procedures are used. Image: DLR/ TUM.
16 Jun 2020
TUM and DLR launch Future Lab for Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation
Satellite image over the eastern part of the Sundarbans in Bangladesh. Image: European Space Agency.
9 Jun 2020
ICIMOD maps floods following Cyclone Amphan in Bangladesh to support response
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured the fires over Borneo on 13 September 2019. Image: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
8 Jun 2020
UN-SPIDER conduct webinar on role of satellites for forest fire management
Fire burning in northern New Mexico captured by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 in June 2013. Image: NASA.
8 Jun 2020
UN-SPIDER webinar showcases methods to map burn severity after forest fire

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