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AI for Good Global Summit 2025

UN-SPIDER Highlights GeoAI Innovations at AI for Good Global Summit 2025

Geneva, Switzerland – July 2025 — UN-SPIDER joined global innovators and UN agencies at the 2025 AI for Good Global Summit, organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) alongside over 40 United Nations partners. With more than 50,000 in-person participants, the summit served as the UN’s key platform to demonstrate how AI can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Mapping Disaster Resilience: GeoAI Best Practices from the UN-SPIDER Network

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Mapping Disaster Resilience

Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) — the convergence of satellite-derived data with modern machine-learning techniques—has become a decisive factor in global disaster-risk governance. In little more than five years, the active Earth-observation satellite fleet has tripled, and open-weight vision models now convert petabytes of imagery into decision-ready layers in minutes.

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Digital Twins and Earth Observation: UN-SPIDER and ZFL Present Flood Mapping Innovations at LPS 2025

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Vienna, 23 June 2025 – The Living Planet Symposium (LPS 2025), organized every three years by the European Space Agency (ESA), took place from 23 to 27 June 2025 at the Austria Center in Vienna, Austria. LPS brought together thousands of Earth observation scientists, policymakers, and industry leaders to explore how satellite data can drive climate action and sustainable development.

AI for Good Global Summit 2025

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AI for Good is the United Nations’ leading platform for harnessing artificial intelligence to address global challenges. It brings together a diverse network of stakeholders, including policymakers, researchers, industry leaders, and civil society, to explore and promote the responsible and impactful use of AI technologies.

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07/08/2025, 12:00am - 07/11/2025, 12:00am
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Palexpo International Conference and Exhibition Centre
Geneva
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Recommended Practice: Flood Mapping Practice Using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Imagery

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Recommended Practice: Flood Mapping Practice Using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Imagery

UN-SPIDER has published a new Recommended Practice that leverages both Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Sentinel-2 optical imagery to improve flood detection and mapping. Developed by the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), this method offers a multispectral and radar-based approach to identifying flood-affected areas with greater precision, especially in regions with persistent cloud cover or challenging terrain.

Strengthening Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment in Kyrgyzstan: UN-SPIDER Leads Hands-On Training in Bishkek

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On 15–16 May 2025, the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) of Kyrgyzstan hosted a two-day training workshop titled “Multi-hazard Risk Assessment for Risk-Reduction Planning.” Organised by UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER in partnership with ESCAP-APCICT, the Geoinformatics Center (Asian Institute of Technology) and ITC–University of Twente, the course addressed the country’s overlapping threats from earthquakes, landslides, floods and climate-related extremes.

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