The United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER) in collaboration with the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), the Global Flood Awareness System (GLOFAS) of the Copernicus Programme of the European Commission, and the University of Bonn’s Centre for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces (ZFL), conducted an international training workshop on space-based technologies for flood management. The workshop was held at the UN Bonn Campus on 20-22 February 2023.

UN Mappers calls all mappers to support the Turkish Open Street Map community following the earthquake that hit southern Turkey and northern Syria on Monday 6 February.

On January 24, 2023, the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, together with the Executive Director of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), and the NASA Earth Science Division Director, launched SERVIR-Southeast Asia (SERVIR-SEA). The project is an $11.2 million ADPC-USAID-NASA initiative to help communities across Southeast Asia adapt to regional and transboundary climate issues and mitigate the impacts of climate change and disasters.

The International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management (GISTAM) aims at creating a meeting point for researchers and practitioners that address new challenges in geo-spatial data sensing, observation, representation, processing, visualization, sharing and managing, in all aspects concerning both information communication and technologies as well as management information systems and knowledge-based systems.