The second edition of the book entitled Flood Forecasting: A Global Perspective was recently launched and it covers ...

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 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.

Cite this data in any published material produced using this data, and if possible link web pages to the CIAT-CSI SRTM website (http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org). Citations ...

The UN-SPIDER Recommended Practice on radar-based flood mapping explains the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery for flood mapping. The practice shows the use of the European Space ...

Early warning systems have been around for a long time. Ancient tribes in the Pacific observed the precursory signs of tsunamis in the ocean to warn their communities. In a similar fashion, tribes in ...

Handbook on the use of risk knowledge for multi-hazard early warning systems 2024 ...

The National Disaster Operations Centre (NDOC) of Kenya was established in January 1998 by an act of Parliament to act as the focal point for co-ordinating response to emergencies and disasters in ...

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.) ...

The Centre National de l'Information Géo-Spatiale (CNIGS) is a public agency in Haiti, within the Ministry of Planning. The mission of the Centre is to generate and disseminate geographic information ...

As a means of emergency response after a flooding event or inland inundation, flood mapping helps to estimate the extent of the flood on a large scale. It is a basis of coordinating appropriate ...

For this Recommended Practice, we used Sentinel-1 data freely available on the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem platform (https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/) as well as ...