The UN-SPIDER Recommended Practice on flood hazard mapping shows how GIS and modelling are used to calculate simulated inundation areas based on land use, soil, elevation, and meteorological data.

The National Emergency Management Agency of Nigeria was established via Act 12 as amended by Act 50 of 1999, to manage disasters in Nigeria. Therefore, from inception, NEMA has been tackling disaster ...

Digital Number (DN) is the generic term used for pixel values. These values correlate with the energy that is observed and measured at the sensor. Although the DNs are related to the surface ...

A Regional Support Office (RSO) is a regional or national centre of expertise that is set up within an existing entity by a Member State or group of Member States that have put forward an offer to set ...

The Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador is the national health authority; therefore it exercises the steering, regulation, planning, management, coordination and control of the Ecuadoran public ...

This database provides descriptions of a large variety of software for the processing and analysis of space-based information. You can search the database by criteria such as software type, data ...

Machine Learning (ML) is a field of Artificial intelligence (AI) used to recognise patterns automatically and intuitively in a dataset without being explicitly programmed. Thereby, providing an easier ...

Who are the users of space technology in disaster risk management and disaster response? What is the context of their daily work? What are their needs and challenges? The Risks and Disasters section ...

The aim of this step-by-step procedure is the generation of a flood extent map for the assessment of affected areas. The flood extent is created using a change detection approach on Sentinel-1 (SAR) ...

This Recommended Practice explains how to conduct a supervised land cover classification followed by a change detection analysis. In this application, the method is applied for an area of rainforest ...

The step-by-step procedures below are for ENVI version 4.8. (Click here to access step-by-step instructions for Envi 5. Click here to access step-by-step instructions for the free software R Studio.) ...

This database provides descriptions of a large variety of satellite imagery, elevation models, land use and land cover maps as well as near real-time data products for different hazard types. You can ...