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While the center of Gezani moved into the Mozambique Channel on 12 February, a red alert remains in effect for central-western Madagascar due to ongoing heavy rainfall and flooding risks.

PAGASA is the Philippine national institution dedicated to provide flood and typhoon warnings, public weather forecasts and advisories, meteorological, astronomical, climatological, and other ...

SPARRSO was established in 1980 as an autonomous organisation of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. It keeps close collaboration with national, regional and international ...

The Survey of Bangladesh (SOB) is the national surveying and mapping agency for Bangladesh. The agency functions under the Ministry of Defence and is headed by the Surveyor General of Bangladesh. The ...

Since several years ago, satellites have been used to detect fires. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor onboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites has been used to scan the ...

The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), together with the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), ...

The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has released its latest report titled "2023 Disasters in Numbers: A Significant Year of Disaster Impact", shedding light on the ...

UN-SPIDER has released a new Recommended Practice that improves flood mapping by integrating Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery with Digital Terrain Models (DTMs), offering a more accurate and ...

In the aftermath of the September 2023 Derna flood disaster in Libya, a number of different tools allowed rapid assessment of the situation to facilitate the response and reduce further risks. An open ...

Spacecraft orbiting Earth play a vital role in monitoring climate change, enabling global communication and navigation, and advancing scientific research. However, many of these orbits are becoming ...

Three-dimensional (3D) representations of the Earth’s surface are essential for mapping and assessing disaster risks as well as for preparing, responding to, and preventing disasters. A Digital ...