Satellite Applications for Development and Humanitarian Challenges

A catalogue of satellite applications from around the world that address sustainable development and humanitarian challenges.

Space technology is being used across many sectors to address development and humanitarian challenges around the world. This catalogue demonstrates the various use cases for which space technology can be applied and gives examples of applications that have been developed and deployed.

You can explore how space tech is addressing challenges relevant to your own work by filtering results by sector, use case, region and more.

Catalogue

  • Protecting Women Farmers from Climate Risk in Rural Kenya

    A new activity is helping women farmers access agricultural insurance in rural Kenya — the Gender-sensitive Agricultural Index-based Insurance (GAIINS) project implemented by the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) in partnership with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The activity […]

  • Satellites and Seeds: Improving Food Security in northern Uganda with GIS and Geospatial Analysis

    “Satellites and Seeds” is a collaboration between Alcis GIS and the UK charity Seeds for Development to improve food security in northern Uganda using geospatial analysis. By mapping communities and identifying high-risk areas, the project aids efficient food distribution and supports farmers in transitioning to commercial agriculture, thus enhancing resilience against hunger and poverty.

  • Data in Emergencies

    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) established the Data in Emergencies (DIEM) Information System in June 2020. Driven by regularly collected primary data, its objective is to understand the impact of shocks in food crisis contexts and inform decision-making in support of agricultural livelihoods. The DIEM Hub has been publicly available […]

  • Between crises: Puntland’s response to COVID & Cyclone GATI

    In Puntland, Somalia, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, with partners like GRID3, supported the Puntland Statistics Office in utilising geospatial data to inform COVID-19 response and later assess impacts of Cyclone GATI. By strengthening GIS capacity, they enabled rapid, targeted emergency responses, showcasing the critical role of data in crisis management for vulnerable […]

  • Agriculture Data For COVID-19 Response In Kenya: Lessons For Better Financing

    A team of data experts comprising government and non-government volunteers came together to co-create data driven solutions that enabled the Ministry of Agriculture to have access to reliable and accurate data on the availability of food staples in all the 47 counties. The team rapidly configured ESRI’s custom off the shelf technology and deployed a […]

  • Ugandan crop monitoring system enables early drought response

    Uganda’s crop monitoring system, powered by NASA’s satellite data and GLAM analysis, provided early drought warnings, helping unlock millions in disaster financing to support vulnerable farming communities. It improved food security, reduced costs, and fostered proactive government responses to climate shocks.

  • METEOR Endline Evaluation Report

    The METEOR project leveraged Earth Observation data to provide improved exposure, hazard, and vulnerability datasets for disaster risk management (DRM) in Nepal, Tanzania, and other ODA countries. By delivering open-access tools and detailed protocols, it enhanced policy and planning for disaster resilience, with the potential to reduce disaster-related losses and promote economic stability in vulnerable […]

  • Early Warning Systems Aid Malawi

    In Malawi, the Community-Based Flood Early Warning System (CBFEWS) developed by SERVIR and its partners has significantly improved resilience to cyclones and flooding by integrating ground-based sensors with satellite data to provide a 15-day flood forecast. This locally-led initiative, which saved over $40 million during Cyclones Ana and Gombe in 2022, demonstrates the power of […]

  • Remote Mapping in Malawi: Supporting Field Operations for the Cholera Outbreak and Cyclone Freddy Response

    The Community-Based Flood Early Warning System (CBFEWS) in Malawi, supported by SERVIR and international partners, integrates satellite and ground-based data to provide a 15-day flood forecast, enabling communities to prepare for disasters. Successfully tested during Cyclones Ana and Gombe in 2022, the system saved over $40 million in losses, highlighting the power of collaborative, demand-driven […]

  • Anticipating Agriculture Conditions: Supporting Farmers to Avoid Another Underproductive Harvest

    Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) utilised OpenStreetMap (OSM) and remote mapping efforts to support emergency responses to a cholera outbreak and Cyclone Freddy in Malawi in 2023. Through collaborative mapping projects and on-the-ground validation, MSF efficiently identified vulnerable populations, prioritised health and water interventions, and restored access to healthcare for over 54,000 people, showcasing the power […]

  • Space-based flood monitoring to support disaster risk management in Sudan

    In August 2020, Sudan experienced severe flooding due to torrential rains, affecting 17 of its 18 states. The Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources of Sudan activated the International Charter Space and Major Disasters to access satellite data for disaster management. The Ruhr-University Bochum, in collaboration with the Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces […]

  • Flood GUIDE

    The Flood GUIDE project, coordinated by UN-SPIDER, aims to enhance flood early warning systems in developing countries by implementing “impact-based” forecasting. In partnership with international and national agencies, including GloFAS, AIRBUS, and universities, the project integrates flood forecasts, historical impact data, and community vulnerability to predict potential impacts. Focused on regions in Ghana, Guatemala, Nigeria, […]

  • HungerMap LIVE

    HungerMap LIVE is the World Food Programme’s (WFP) global hunger monitoring system, providing near real-time insights into food security across 94 countries. It integrates data on food consumption, nutrition, conflict, hazards, and macroeconomic indicators to assess and predict hunger levels. The interactive platform enables users to visualise current food security situations, identify hunger hotspots, and […]

  • Automated geovisualization of flood disaster impacts in the global South cities with open geospatial data sets and ICEYE SAR flood data

    A comprehensive overview of how geospatial technologies are utilised in flood risk management. It discusses the application of remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and hydrological modelling in flood prediction, monitoring, and mitigation. The authors highlight the integration of these technologies to enhance flood forecasting accuracy and support decision-making processes. The review also addresses challenges […]

  • Satellites and Earth Observation Solutions to Water Challenges in India

    The European Space Agency (ESA), in partnership with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), is supporting the Government of West Bengal, India, to enhance water resilience and disaster risk reduction using Earth Observation (EO) tools. This project aims to address water quality issues affecting about 1.65 million people across three West Bengal districts, who are impacted […]

  • ADB contracts European EO specialists for Early Warning System in Nepal

    The ADB has engaged ZAMG, as part of the ESA GDA Disaster Resilience consortium, to develop an Earth Observation-based early warning system for glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF) in Nepal’s Melamchi catchment area. This system uses Sentinel-1 data to monitor glacial lakes and snow cover, supporting timely risk assessment and infrastructure resilience in high-risk regions.

  • Planetek Italia to implement EO platform for risk assessment in Indonesia

    Planetek Italia, contracted by the Asian Development Bank, will implement the Rheticus® Interactive EO-based platform for the Indonesian National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) to support risk assessment of subsidence hazards for buildings and infrastructure in key cities across Indonesia. This platform enhances disaster resilience by enabling real-time environmental monitoring and fostering local capacity building […]

  • ESA GDA teaming up with WB to strengthen Climate Resilience in South Sudan

    The ESA GDA Climate Resilience consortium, in partnership with the World Bank, is enhancing flood and drought resilience in South Sudan through an Earth Observation (EO)-based system for water resources management. This initiative supports the development of flood and drought hazard maps and a Water Information Management System, bolstering climate resilience and decision-making capacity within […]

  • Building a Resilient Future: Tackling Floods, Droughts, and Water Scarcity in Pakistan

    The ESA’s Global Development Assistance (GDA) Water Resources program is using Earth Observation (EO) services to enhance water management and resilience against floods and droughts in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. Integrated into the Balochistan IWRM project, these services provide critical insights into sediment dynamics, drought impacts on rangelands, and water availability, strengthening the region’s water infrastructure […]

  • Climate-Resilient Flood Management in South Sudan through Earth Observation Insights

    Earth observation (EO) data has been used to map flooding and precipitation trends in South Sudan, a country prone to flood risk and hydrological variability. In a strategic partnership with the World Bank, the European Space Agency (ESA) Global Development Assistance (GDA) Agile EO Information Development (AID) Climate Resilience Consortium leveraged Sentinel-1 high-resolution radar imagery […]

  • European Earth Observation providers support ADB in Pakistan floods recovery efforts

    Following the devastating floods which occurred in Pakistan starting from June 2022, several European specialised Earth Observation providers took part in disaster assessment efforts to assist the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with the support of ESA. Earth Observation (EO) can indeed provide key information in the event of natural disasters such as floods. While ESA […]

  • Soil monitoring helps build climate resilience for Nigeria’s farmers

    Working with the World Bank, GMV as part of the European Space Agency (ESA) Global Development Assistance (GDA) Agile EO Information Development (AID) Climate Resilience Consortium has designed a system for monitoring soil organic carbon in the croplands of northern Nigeria. The project aims to increase the implementation of sustainable landscape management practices in targeted […]

  • Earth Map

    Earth Map is a free, open-source tool by FAO, leveraging Google Earth Engine to enable users to visualize, process, and analyze satellite imagery and global datasets on topics like climate, vegetation, and land use. Accessible through a web browser, it supports design, planning, and monitoring of climate-related projects without requiring advanced GIS knowledge.

  • SEPAL: Land monitoring platform

    SEPAL, developed by FAO, is a cloud-based platform that enables users to access, process, and analyze satellite imagery for land monitoring without the need for extensive computing power or coding skills. This free, open-source tool supports rural development projects by facilitating land classification, change detection, and time-series analysis across areas such as forests, pastures, and […]

  • Flood impact analysis in Nairobi Kenya as of 1 May 2024

    This flood impact analysis for Nairobi, Kenya, based on Pléiades satellite imagery from 1 May 2024, reveals approximately 2 km² of flooded land affecting around 10,000 people. UNITAR-UNOSAT identified 3,387 impacted structures, 7 km of roads, and 9 bridges within the flooded area, providing crucial data for emergency response and planning.

  • Weaving Satellite Data into an Ecosystem of Farmer Support

    This initiative integrates satellite data to provide farmers with actionable insights on crop health, weather patterns, and soil conditions, enhancing their decision-making for improved yields. By combining Earth Observation with local agricultural knowledge, the program supports farmers in adapting to climate challenges and optimizing resource use.

  • Harness geospatial expertise to mitigate severe floods in Kenya

    The importance of using geospatial data and technology to mitigate flood risks in Kenya. By supporting national mapping agencies and integrating satellite data with topographical surveys, Kenya can improve flood monitoring, enhance early warning systems, and inform development planning to prevent future flood damage.

  • Satellite detected water and landslide extents in Kinshasa Province

    This map illustrates satellite-detected surface waters and landslides in Kinshasa Province, Democratic Republic of The Congo, as observed from a Sentinel-2 image acquired on 28 December 2023, at 10:21 local time. Within the analysed area of 44,000 ha, approximately 3 ha of landslide scars are observed and about 460 ha of land appear to be […]

  • Using planetary forensics to visualize historic drought in the Horn of Africa

    Planet Labs used satellite data to monitor the historic drought in the Horn of Africa, revealing record low soil moisture levels that have contributed to severe food insecurity and displacement. By analyzing Soil Water Content (SWC) trends, Planet’s satellite data provides insights to support relief efforts, helping decision-makers respond to the escalating humanitarian crisis in […]

  • Compound Risk Analysis: Climate & Conflict in Sudan

    This compound risk analysis maps high-risk areas in Sudan where climate-related hazards, such as drought and flooding, overlap with conflict zones and vulnerable populations, particularly IDPs and refugees. By utilizing geospatial data and OpenStreetMap, this analysis helps prioritize areas for anticipatory action, supporting humanitarian planning and resilience-building in regions with limited data access.

  • Computer Vision for Building Damage Assessment’ or ‘xView2: Assess Building Damage’

    The xView2 Challenge focuses on automating the process of assessing building damage after a natural disaster, an analytical bottleneck in the post-disaster workflow.

  • Kenya: Drought, March 2023

    MapAction are supporting the ASAL Humanitarian Network as they response to the long term drought conditions in the Arid and Semi Arid Lands (ASAL) of Kenya, by providing datasets.

  • Digital Earth Africa map

    The Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa) Map is a website for map-based access to spatial information. Through translating data into ready-to-use insights, more informed decisions about soil and coastal erosion, agriculture, deforestation, desertification, water quality and changes to human settlements can be made.

  • Sudan: People Affected by Floods

    The dataset contains the flood affected locations and population.

  • Earth Data Search

    NASA’s Earthdata Search is an online platform that provides access to a vast collection of Earth science data, including satellite imagery, climate records, and geospatial information, for research, analysis, and decision-making. The user-friendly interface allows scientists, educators, and the public to discover, visualise, and download data across various Earth science disciplines.

  • Experts Test AIT’s Flood Risk Assessment System

    Experts tested the Asian Institute of Technology’s (AIT) Flood Risk Assessment System, which combines urban growth projections with flood models to forecast flood risks in the Lower Mekong Region. This system helps decision-makers plan for flood resilience by identifying vulnerable urban areas and was introduced to stakeholders through a SERVIR-Mekong workshop that included hands-on training […]

  • African Flood and Drought Monitor

    The African Flood and Drought Monitor is an experimental system for early warning of flood and drought conditions across the country. It has been developed by Princeton Climate Institute (PCI) in collaboration with University of Southampton and Princeton University, with funding support from UNESCO Intergovernmental Hydrology Programme (IHP) and the International Center for Integrated Water […]

  • Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET)

    FEWS NET (Famine Early Warning Systems Network) is a leading global provider of timely, accurate, evidence-based, and transparent early warning information and analysis of current and future acute food insecurity. It informs decisions on humanitarian planning and responses in the world’s most food-insecure countries. monitors and analyses factors contributing to acute food insecurity worldwide, providing […]

  • Copernicus Drought Observatories

    The Copernicus Drought Observatory provides real-time monitoring and assessment of drought conditions across Europe, supporting early warnings and risk management efforts. Using geospatial data, the platform helps policymakers and responders understand drought impacts on ecosystems, water resources, and agriculture.

  • India Drought Monitor

    The India Drought Monitor provides real-time drought tracking across India, focusing on early warnings and risk analysis. It supports decision-making for water resource management, agriculture, and drought mitigation through accessible geospatial data.

  • Global Drought Information System

    The Global Drought Information System (GDIS) is a comprehensive platform for global drought monitoring and data sharing to improve drought resilience. It integrates geospatial data and resources from multiple countries, supporting decision-making for managing drought impacts worldwide.

  • Record-breaking heat intensifies global drought conditions

    The report highlights how record-breaking heat in July has intensified global drought conditions, particularly impacting agriculture and food security in vulnerable regions worldwide. NOAA and global partners are leveraging drought-monitoring data to guide urgent action aimed at protecting ecosystems, agricultural sectors, and at-risk populations.

  • Digital Earth Africa unveils major advancement in the observation of Africa’s waterbodies

    Digital Earth Africa’s Waterbodies Monitoring Service leverages satellite data to track over 700,000 waterbodies across Africa, helping communities monitor water availability and flood risks. This tool supports policymakers in sustainable water resource management and resilience planning.

  • 15-day flood forecast reduces costs by 40%

    The GEOGloWS ECMWF Streamflow Service enhances Malawi’s flood resilience by providing a 15-day lead time for early flood warnings, enabling timely evacuations and risk management. This integration has proven effective in reducing financial losses and preventing loss of life, making it a valuable tool in proactive disaster response and planning.

  • Flood early warning system supports typhoon response

    The Data Integration and Analysis System (DIAS) in the Philippines supports flood resilience by integrating real-time flood forecasting, climate impact assessments, and satellite data from JAXA to aid local decision-making. This platform enabled effective response and evacuations during Typhoon Noru, underscoring the importance of tailored, science-based flood early warning systems for local communities.

  • Unlocking microclimates for ecosystem resilience in mountain regions

    The SoilTemp initiative provides high-resolution soil and near-surface temperature data to help scientists understand microclimates, critical for assessing climate impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems. This data supports agricultural planning, natural resource mapping, and climate risk assessment, particularly in hard-to-reach and mountainous areas worldwide.

  • Opportunities for GEO to contribute to a new Multi-Hazard Early Warning System of the African Union Commission

    The African Union’s Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (AMHEWAS) provides advanced forecasting and disaster response coordination across Africa, targeting multiple hazards like floods, droughts, and cyclones. It operates through central and regional hubs, offering vital early warning and real-time information to help protect communities and assets across the continent.

  • Mapping Surface Water Sources in Somalia

    The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), in collaboration with FAO’s Somalia Water and Land Information Management (SWALIM), is leading a mapping project to identify surface water sources in Somalia. This initiative aims to enhance drought preparedness by documenting vital water sources, aiding early warnings, and supporting local and international responses to mitigate drought impacts, particularly due […]

  • Monitoring extreme heavy rainfall in UAE by Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP)

    On April 16, 2024, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) experienced record rainfall, with precipitation levels exceeding twice the annual average, leading to widespread flooding. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) monitored this event using the Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP), which revealed over 100 mm of rainfall in a single day across extensive areas […]

  • Sea Surface Temperature Rise and El Niño Event

    In August 2023, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) reported unprecedented global sea surface temperature (SST) increases, with July 2023 being the hottest month on record. JAXA’s Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) series has observed a consistent rise in SSTs since 2002, with 2023 showing record highs each month. Notably, the eastern equatorial Pacific exhibited […]

  • Flood and landslides with imagery assistance

    The maps and images acquired from the Space Charter and Sentinel Asia were used in conjunction with other data sources. The main benefit was the speed at which the damage estimation was produced.

  • Local Tsunami Early Warning with GNSS Earthquake Source Products

    This project implements novel techniques that rely on measurements from onshore Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) sites of the deformation produced by the earthquake.

  • GeoRiskPH

    It is an innovative webGIS platform that uses crowdsourced data for geohazard mapping of disaster-prone areas in the Philippines.

  • Search And Rescue Repeater (SARR)

    The Search And Rescue Repeater (SARR) instrument is one of the complement of American instruments provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The SARR receives and downlinks emergency signals from aircraft and ships in distress.

  • Know Your City

    Know Your City, is a global initiative jointly organized by Slum Dwellers International. Classic survey methods, such as households by-household census, are enhanced through addition of technologies, such as cell phones, portable GPS devices, aerial and remote photography, to complement slums mapping and data collection.

  • Extended flood area mapping system

    The Bangladesh Space Research and Remote Sensing Organization (SPARRSO) has established an extended flood area mapping system, by incorporating a perennial flood data layer with layers extracted from remotely sensed imagery, in order to improve flood information for post-flood relief and rehabilitation activities.

  • PulseSatellite: A tool using human-AI feedback loops for satellite image analysis in humanitarian contexts

    PulseSatellite is a collaborative web-based tool that combines cutting edge artificial intelligence with human expertise to extract the most relevant information from satellite imagery for use in humanitarian contexts.

  • Election solutions

    Inmarsat’s global communications network provides a data connection to each electoral post – no matter how remote – whilst in-house solutions engineers constantly work with world-leading manufacturers and partners to source the most reliable and cost efficient applications to enhance the election process.

  • Satellite photos show spectacular urban growth west of Mogadishu

    Satellite imagery on forcibly displaced civilians from Mogadishu shows a virtual new city is growing up to the west of the Somali capital.

  • The Use of Geospatial Data and Technologies in Support of Immunization Microplanning in Myanmar

    The proper management and use of geospatial data and technologies (Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS, Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS)) can help filling this gap through the collection, management, visualization and use of geo-located data and information on vaccination service, population distribution as well as the establishment, maintenance and sharing of master […]

  • Using Earth observation and GIS for the monitoring and evaluation of development projects

    The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UNITAR-UNOSAT entered into a three-year collaboration period with the purpose of developing a web-mapping interface for the monitoring and evaluation of 15 UNDP projects focused on infrastructure rehabilitation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

  • Using Satellite Imagery To Support Civil & Electoral Registries Validation

    UNOSAT and UNDP, long standing partners, are cooperating on a new satellite imagery analysis application, through the production of maps used in the validation of the civil and electoral registries in Vanuatu’s 83 islands.

  • Satellite Imagery and Crowdsourcing Project to Improve Refugee Camp Planning and Maintenance

    The project will use high-resolution satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company, and its crowdsourcing platform, called Tomnod, to tag key structures in refugee camps, such as tents and permanent structures, to improve UNHCR’s site planning and field operations.

  • Beyond the “line-of sight” for delivery drones gets closer as satellite firm develops long-distance system

    The ultimate goal is remote, scalable, automated drone fleets which could airlift tonnes of goods between depots and allow farmers to monitor and optimize their crops more easily.

  • Satellite Imagery, Remote Sensing, and Diminishing the Risk of Nuclear War in South Asia

    This report examines U.S. concerns regarding India-Pakistan security competition and assesses whether new and emerging technology could mitigate the risks of inadvertent escalation or the unauthorized use or theft of nuclear materials on the subcontinent.

  • Satellite Data Reveals the Pandemic’s Effects From Above

    Images taken from space are providing details to governments and relief efforts about how humanity is handling the Covid-19 crisis.

  • Satellite data analysis in conflict and famine-affected areas

    The project considered the use of satellite imagery analysis to develop a scientifically-tested method for identifying and monitoring nomadic pastoralists, internally displaced persons (IDP) camps, and informal settlements in Somalia.

  • Tunis – climate change adaption

    High above Tunis, three orbiting ESA satellites sent down data pinpointing parts of the Tunisian capital where land was sinking, undermining the city’s ability to withstand storms, earthquakes and extreme weather.

  • Geo-Enabling initiative for Monitoring and Supervision (GEMS)

    World Bank’s Geo-Enabling initiative for Monitoring and Supervision (GEMS) launched by the FCV Group to systematically enhance Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) as well as supervision and third-party monitoring (TPM) in FCV settings.

  • Exploring Xinjiang’s detention system

    ASPI researchers have identified and mapped over 380 sites in this network across Xinjiang, counting only re-education camps, detention centres and prisons that were newly built or significantly expanded since 2017. This represents the largest database of camps in existence, and we estimate it covers the majority of all detention facilities in Xinjiang.

  • Verumar

    Verumar enhances the Philippine Government’s capability to conserve and sustainably use their oceans, seas and marine resources while contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 – Life below water. This is achieved by integrating and working in concert with the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) and other stakeholders to scope […]

  • Water Availability

    Pixalytics has derived soil moisture content, water body height and water extent – which includes both water bodies and saturated ground – information using microwave data from Earth observation (EO) satellites that can be used to identify and map water sources and water availability.

  • Deforestation prevention with land use monitoring and valuation in Côte d’Ivoire

    The project helps policy makers, forestry protection and reforestation agencies, agricultural and budget officials, commodity buyers and growers and other local actors to make better decisions. It provides them with the IMAGE toolkit for up-to-date information on land use, economic statistics and deforestation. By showing the value of natural capital and vastly improving forest monitoring, […]

  • DAMSAT

    DAm Monitoring from SATellites (DAMSAT) is an UKSA International Partnership Programme (IPP) supported project led by HR Wallingford with UK and Peruvian partners. DAMSAT provides a one-stop portal to access information on the performance of the monitored dams by combining the use of: Satellite derived data (SAR and optical); in-situ data from SUMMIT SHM (GNSS) […]

  • IPP CommonSensing Project Case Study

    The overall aim of CommonSensing is to improve national resilience towards climate change, including disaster risk reduction, and contribute to sustainable development in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), through the use of satellite Earth observation (EO). This is done by assessing climate predictions, coupled with hazard mapping and food security analysis to provide countries capacity […]

  • The Pacific Community

    The Digital Earth Pacific (DEP) project supports the development of an operational earth observation system that takes decades of freely available data and brings it together in a sensible way within the Pacific context.

  • Implications of climate, land-use and land-cover changes for pastoralism in eastern Sudan

    This study examines the changes in climate and land-use/land-cover (LULC) along the livestock seasonal migration routes in El Gedaref region (eastern Sudan).

  • A procedure to use GNSS data to calibrate satellite PSI data for the study of subsidence:an example from the north-western Adriatic coast (Italy)

    The methodology is tested in Ravenna and Ferrara cities on the north-western Adriatic coast within the eastern alluvial plain of Po river (Italy), extensively affected by subsidence with strong spatial and temporal variations.

  • Satellite imagery of Aden indicates scale of pandemic in Yemen

    A groundbreaking study using high-resolution satellite imagery to analyse graveyards has found that deaths have nearly doubled in Aden, the centre of Yemen’s coronavirus outbreak.

  • Myanmar levels former Rohingya villages to build camp for returnees

    Myanmar has bulldozed entire Rohingya villages to make way for a massive camp at the centre of a stalled plan to house returning refugees, an analysis of new satellite imagery shows.

  • Tumaini

    The tool is a mobile application that merges expertise on banana genetic resources with artificial intelligence to quickly identify common afflictions that threaten bananas, allowing farmers and extension workers to act quickly and save their crops.

  • Malaria Risk Mapping

    UC San Francisco (UCSF) is working to create an online platform that health workers around the world can use to predict where malaria is likely to be transmitted using data on Google Earth Engine.

  • Italy uses Sentinel-1 satellite data to monitor sinking ground surfaces

    The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-1 satellite, part of the Copernicus programme, is being used to monitor cases of land subsidence and contribute to risk assessment and urban development efforts.

  • Satellite imagery and human geography data to be used to combat Ebola

    The satellite imagery, available through NGA’s EnhancedView program, will be used to support the daily operations of the organisations involved in combating the deadly disease.

  • EvIDENz – Earth Observation based information products for drought risk reduction on the national level

    The overall objective of the EvIDENz project is to develop and demonstrate methods and products on drought risk assessment that respond to national needs for the example of South Africa and Ukraine, and defined indicators of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR).

  • Hurricane Matthew Preliminary Satellite Based Damage Assessment Report: Grand South departments

    UNITAR-UNOSAT on behalf of UN OCHA activated the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters on 05 October 2016 to support planning and coordination of emergency response operations with satellite analysis covering areas affected by Hurricane Matthew.

  • RawMatCop CopX

    Funded by the European Commission (DG Grow) and EIT RawMaterials, the RawMatCop CopX project (Geospatial mining transparency through Copernicus and MapX) is analysing changes on land and water bodies, focusing specifically on mining ponds created on riverbeds.

  • Regional Drought Mechanism

    The Regional Drought Mechanism addresses the scarcity of resources and capacity to analyse data in many drought-prone developing countries in Asia and the Pacific.

  • Thailand Drought Monitoring System

    Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA) of Thailand uses space technology applications and geoinformatics to monitor and assess areas, throughout the country, that are currently experiencing and are at risk of drought in order to provide input for efficient and continuous daily planning and management.

  • Early detection of the severe cyclonic storm

    Throughout the lifecycle of the cyclone, meteorologists used imagery from ISRO’s SCATSAT-1 satellite to track the location, direction, and intensity of winds close to the ocean surface.

  • Band-SOS

    BanD-SOS aims to establish a pre-operational service for flood forecasting and associated societal risk.

  • ClimHealth Yangon

    The ClimHealth project aims to integrate climate and environmental information from satellites into health surveillance systems to develop early warning and guide disease control.

  • EO4DroughtMonitoring

    EO4DroughtMonitoring allows the monitoring of drought events based on proven and objective indicators derived from Earth Observation (EO) data.

  • FloodDAM

    This projects aims at building an automated service to reliably detect, monitor and assess flood events globally.

  • GADE LAPLI

    This project will provide indicators and services using satellite data to estimate rainfall and flood zones.

  • IRRISAT-MOROCCO

    IRRISAT-MAROC aims to implement a system to help optimize irrigation water using satellite data.

  • MexiCorn

    This project proposes the creation of an operational tool using data from optical and microwave sensors onboard of Earth observation satellites to monitor corn-growing areas.

  • OSS Saint Louis

    This project concerns the Saint-Louis coastline, which is particularly vulnerable to coastal erosion and flooding.

  • Stock Water

    StockWater aims to put in place a system for monitoring the load of dams based on satellite data, and a specific processing system, thereby facilitating the work of the public authorities in this area.

  • TropiSCO

    TropiSCO aims to map deforested areas in near-real time and to publish the information so that local actors can intervene, alert public opinion, and account for lost surfaces.

  • VIET-ARRO

    VIET-RRO is developing a demonstrator of a recovery observatory in response to periods of intense cyclonic activity impacting food security in Vietnam.

  • Vimesco-rice

    The objective of this project is to provide users in Vietnam with a demonstrator of operational tools for the dynamic monitoring of rice crops using radar-based remote sensing data.

  • Coastal Risk Information Service (C-RISe)

    Coastal Risk Information Service (C-RISe) delivers access to satellite-derived data on sea level, wind speed and wave heights; enabling stakeholders to use this information to improve socio-economic resilience to coastal hazards such as inundation, floods, storm damage, wetland loss, habitat change, coastal erosion and saltwater intrusion.

  • Earth and Sea Observation System (EASOS)

    EASOS’s Flood Watch provides warning of flooding up to 7 days in advance to allow preventative action to be taken prior to a disaster event. It enables the Disaster Management committee to coordinate all agencies, and take preventative measures acting on consistent, reliable information. It also achieves over 90% accuracy for flood alerts with a […]

  • Flood Risk Management Systems and Data

    A worldwide flood forecasting capability for advanced warning of flood events, based on dynamic modelling of live data feeds such as rainfall radar, forecast models and hydromet telemetry.

  • Forest Change Mapping

    Designed to facilitate better management of tropical forests and find illegal logging in near real time, Forest Change Mapping highlights areas of change. Targeted at government users, and state level actors, interested in tropical forests, the forest change mapping service utilises high resolution radar data that is unaffected by clouds which often plague the use […]

  • Forest Disturbance Early Warning System

    The Forest Disturbance Early Warning System (FDEWS) provides regularly updated information about likely forest disturbances, even when skies are cloudy. Maps show disturbances that have occurred since baseline, with the date of first detection. These products readily improve knowledge of forest change and enable proactive intervention by the relevant authorities.

  • Humanitarian Rapid Mapping Service

    Rapid satellite imagery analysis during natural and environmental disasters to improve situational awareness and support relief efforts. Output products include maps, GIS- ready data, statistics and reports. They are shared with governments, UN agencies and other actors. Wide range of products – assess and map the impact of many types of disaster including floods, fires, […]

  • Rapid Flood Mapping Service (RFMS)

    Rapid Flood Mapping Service (RFMS) provides a quick response in mapping flooded areas in the immediate lead up – and during – a severe weather event e.g. torrential rainfall. Targeted at national disaster resilience agencies and the first responder community. RFMS utilises high-resolution radar data that is unaffected by clouds and is capable of delivery […]

  • Shoreline Mapping and Change Detection

    This service delivers coastline, and, where relevant intertidal maps. The coastline method works by identifying land-water boundaries in time series of SAR data and high-resolution optical images. Tidal corrections are applied in order to establish locations for high and low water shorelines, and the location of mean sea level. Tidal corrections are based on available […]

  • NASA SERVIR – Regional Drought Monitoring and Outlook System

    The system includes a set of drought indices designed for use at different stages of agricultural operation through consultation and user needs. The system produces seasonal outlook on the indicators of precipitation, soil moisture, evapotranspiration and temperature to evaluate potential drought hazards.

  • Thuraya Commits to Support COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan

    Thuraya will enable always-on voice and internet connections for COVID-19 relief missions, especially in regions where telecommunications infrastructure is likely to be weak or unavailable.

  • Humanitarian Satellite Services to Africa During COVID Crisis

    Both of these satellite providers are fully prepared to provide immediate satellite bandwidth to support basic internet, distance learning and telehealth to reach vulnerable populations.

  • NASA SERVIR – Locust Monitoring

    The Locust Monitoring service, P-Locust, is a geospatial model for the timely location of desert locust development and gregarization risk zones in the western region of Africa.

  • NASA SERVIR – Frost Monitoring and Forecasting Service

    The Frost Monitoring and Forecasting service provides timely information on the current and future probability of a frost occurrence to help farmers in the Kenyan highlands prepare and reduce crop losses.

  • NASA SERVIR – Ecological Modeling Service

    This service provides data on mapping, monitoring and assessing invasive species to local governments.

  • NASA SERVIR – Regional Cropland Assessment and Monitoring Service

    The service facilitates a crop modeling framework to assess drought and yields estimates using CHIRPS data for precipitation estimates and crop type maps derived from Landsat and Sentinel.

  • NASA SERVIR – Regional Stream Flow Monitoring and Forecasting Service

    The Regional Stream Flow Monitoring and Forecasting Service is designed to provide real-time stream flow forecasts for several watersheds in East Africa and bias-corrected satellite precipitation products to enable the timely prediction and monitoring of extreme events.

  • NASA SERVIR – Enhancing Drought Resilience and Crop Yield Security

    The Enhancing Drought Resilience and Crop Yield Security for the Lower Mekong Service provides drought nowcasts and forecasts at the regional level in the Lower Mekong Region and provincial level in Vietnam using hydrological and crop model information through the Regional Hydrologic Extremes Assessment System (RHEAS), a state-of-the-art water resources nowcast and forecast framework.

  • NASA SERVIR – Monitoring Ephemeral Water Bodies in Ferlo

    The Monitoring Ephemeral Water Bodies in Ferlo, Senegal Service is a web-based platform for assessing water availability in all known ponds, thus facilitating water management in arid areas such as the Ferlo Region of Senegal.

  • NASA SERVIR – Improving the Mekong River Commission’s Regional Flood Forecasting

    The service use new-generation satellite-derived precipitation products to increase flood forecast accuracy.

  • NASA SERVIR – Improving Rainfall Estimates for Flood Forecasting in Cambodia

    This service will work with DHRW to incorporate the Virtual Rain and Stream Gauge Information System (VRSGIS) data stream into their hydrological models.

  • NASA SERVIR – Supporting Near Real-Time Flood Monitoring in Myanmar

    SERVIR-Mekong is currently developing Hydrological Remote Sensing Analysis of Floods (HYDRAFloods), a web-based tool that leverages the most recently available remotely sensed data acquired by multiple satellite platforms to generate daily flood water maps.

  • NASA SERVIR – Supporting Flood Emergency Preparedness for Myanmar Service

    The resulting tool will provide a historical flood map and flood risk index to enable more informed decisions on the exposure of people to floods for preparedness planning and effective advocacy for agricultural, urban, and city planning.

  • NASA SERVIR – Mekong Air Quality Explorer tool

    The Enabling Sustainable Landscape-Scale Agricultural Management Through Fire and Air Quality Monitoring service guides authorities to regulate agriculture burning and manage forest fire using the Mekong Air Quality Explorer Tool, which combines air quality estimations from NASA’s GEOS-5 global model with local ground-sensor data, and machine-learning analytics.

  • NASA SERVIR – Improving Resilience and Reducing Risk of Extreme Hydrological Events

    The service provides stakeholders in the Amazon Basin region with improved flood forecasting ability, including more accurate information about timing, magnitude and impact, to increase their understanding of risks and support greater resiliency to flood disasters.

  • Protecting the World’s Forests with Machine Learning and Satellites

    Geospatial imagery via satellites, combined with machine learning makes an ideal solution. It provides a non-invasive means of identifying illegal deforestation in small areas and alerting authorities to it, so they can carefully direct their limited resources.

  • EarthCache

    EarthCache is the easiest way to capture high-resolution satellite images to monitor natural resources. Identify illegal deforestation activity, detect wildfires in remote areas, and measure water quality with geospatial mapping technology.

  • Satellite images show Iran’s mass graves for coronavirus victims

    New satellite images from Maxar show Iranian authorities digging large numbers of graves in the Qom area, which media reports say is due to the growing numbers of coronavirus victims in the country.

  • ABOCARTO-v2

    The ARBOCARTO V2 application was initially intended for health authorities, to enable them to target places where mosquitoes, which are vectors of human arbovirosis diseases, are likely to proliferate, in order to focus social mobilisation measures for vector control and to adapt the actions of field teams to the conditions of neighbourhoods at risk.

  • Forest and Land Use Satellite Monitoring from Planet

    Track and identify illegal deforestation and enforce permits and land use regulations with Planet’s high cadence, global satellite imagery.

  • How Analysts Uncover Covert Nuclear Facilities With Planet Data

    Dr. Lewis and team rely on satellite imagery to understand patterns of life and detect and monitor ongoing changes on the ground.

  • Using Mobile Phone and Satellite Data to Target Togo’s Emergency Cash Transfer Program

    The Government of Togo has launched an ambitious cash transfer program to provide immediate cash support to poor households that are impacted by COVID-19.

  • Yield index insurance products to protect farmers

    Pula is an agricultural insurance and technology company that designs and delivers innovative agricultural insurance and digital products to help smallholder farmers endure yield risks, improve their farming practices, and bolster their incomes over time.

  • Global Location Intelligence

    Quake Global offers asset location solutions providing visibility and analytics even within the most complex situations.

  • SAT4Farming

    SAT4Farming, an initiative to reach thousands of small-scale cocoa producers with information and services to improve their productivity and sustainability. It is designed to use digital technology and satellite imagery to create individual Farm Development Plans (FDPs) that guide farmers over a seven-year period.

  • China’s Disappeared Uyghurs: What Satellite Images Reveal

    Researchers at RAND had used satellite observations to get inside the Islamic State, to see how it governed and how cities fared when it took over. Now they turned their attention to Xinjiang. Working with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), they began looking at detention camps that Chinese officials insisted were empty.

  • Investigating the Growth of Detention Facilities in Xinjiang Using Nighttime Lighting

    RAND researchers explore new data on nighttime lighting in Xinjiang to offer new, empirical insights into China’s efforts to reeducate, detain, and imprison its Uyghur and ethnic minority populations across Xinjiang.

  • Building research tools to improve response and resilience to flooding in Syria

    Using the high-level overland flow and catchment data and the IDP shelter locations, the team was able to overlay the two in order to identify areas where high IDP shelter densities lay in close proximity to major overland flow paths.

  • Central African Republic Flood Susceptibility & Risk

    Through remote-sensing, REACH conducted a flood susceptibility analysis to classify areas within CAR that are more likely to flood, in an effort to inform enhanced preparedness.

  • EO4SD – Satellite-derived information to assess the consequences of armed conflict on the agriculture sector

    An ESA EO4SD-Agriculture and Rural Development project provided an analysis of agricultural production (losses) in areas under conflict in Syria.

  • EO4SD – Sustainable land management and food security

    In Ethiopia, EO4SD provided satellite-based data and capacity training to the teams of the World Bank’s Sustainable land management project – Phase II, IFAD’s Participatory Small-scale Irrigation Development Programme – Phase II, and UNDP-implemented Integrated Landscape Management to Enhance Food Security and Ecosystem Resilience child projects.

  • Tracking China’s Muslim Gulag

    Reuters worked with Earthrise Media, a non-profit group that analyzes satellite imagery, to plot the construction and expansion of 39 of these camps, which were initially identified using publicly available documents such as construction tenders.

  • Crop Observation, Management and Production Analysis Services System (COMPASS)

    The project will provide customer specific decision support tools to help growers, including smallholders, improve their technical, environmental and financial performance.

  • Before And After The Devastating Fire At A Rohingya Refugee Camp

    Satellite imagery shows destruction caused by a massive fire that swept through a Rohingya refugee camp at Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh.

  • Fires Near Me

    This application was frequently updated and showed the different severity levels of fire. It also tracked the user’s location and sent out alerts to smartphones if a fire was approaching.

  • Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking (SARSAT)

    TSi announced that Taiwan has selected its Medium-altitude Earth Orbit Search and Rescue (MEOSAR) ground system to support regional search and rescue missions.

  • Border Surveillance

    Within the border surveillance service, the main objectives are to reduce the number of illegal immigrants entering the EU undetected, to reduce the death toll of human lives at sea and to increase internal security of the European Union as a whole by contributing to the prevention of cross-border crime.

  • Management and Monitoring the Environment

    Satellite Imaging Corporation (SIC) offers satellite image data by using the combination of panchromatic and multispectral bands to bring out the environment features that are most important to the project.

  • NASA SERVIR – Enhancing Flood Early Warning Services (EWS)

    The service will include an operational 15-day flood forecast based on the downscaled Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) forecasting system using the RAPID routing model at designated locations.

  • Identifying the vulnerable population using de-identified telecom data and satellite images for enhancing disaster management

    This system identifies the time and seasonally varying distribution of the vulnerable population by using the de-identified telecom data and satellite images for enhancing disaster management.

  • Tanzania National Food Security Bulletin

    National Food Security bulletins developed using the GEOGLAM Crop Monitor, Global Agriculture Monitoring System (GLAM) and Early Warning Explorer.

  • Maxar News Bureau

    The Maxar News Bureau is a partnership program with trusted and respected media organizations that leverages technology for social good and global transparency. Maxar Technologies provides electro-optical and radar satellite imagery, analytics and expertise that are powerful complements to good journalism, providing indisputable truth at a time when credibility is critical.

  • International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development

    A 2019 study aimed to develop a methodology for rapid flood inundation and potential flood damaged area mapping using Sentinel and Landsat data.

  • A Spatially Transferable Drought Hazard and Drought Risk Modeling Approach Based on Remote Sensing Data

    In this study, a spatially explicit drought hazard, vulnerability, and risk modeling framework was investigated for agricultural land, grassland and shrubland areas.

  • Downscaling Regional Crop Yields to Local Scale Using Remote Sensing

    A simple method for disaggregation of district-level production statistics over crop pixels by using a remote sensing approach.

  • The Spatial Dimension of COVID-19: The Potential of Earth Observation Data in Support of Slum Communities with Evidence from Brazil

    EO-based data, along with auxiliary spatial information, would bridge data gaps by complementing the spatial dimension and helping to identify the spatial foci for COVID-19 control measurements. Thus, this would allow knowing where vulnerable groups and individuals are, who they are, and how people are exposed.

  • B-LiFE

    Antiviral drugs to treat Ebola patients in West Africa have been tested with the help of a transportable diagnostics laboratory developed with ESA’s support.

  • Missing Maps

    Missing Maps is an open, collaborative project in which you can help to map areas where humanitarian organisations are trying to meet the needs of people who live at risk of disasters and crises.

  • CoastalDEM

    Most estimates of global mean sea-level rise this century fall below 2 m. This quantity is comparable to the positive vertical bias of the principle digital elevation model (DEM) used to assess global and national population exposures to extreme coastal water levels, NASA’s SRTM. CoastalDEM is a new DEM utilizing neural networks to reduce SRTM error. […]

  • Satellite imaging reveals increased proportion of population exposed to floods

    Tellman and her colleagues collected satellite imagery of 913 large flood events around the world, from 2000 and 2018. They then compared the population of the flooded areas between 2000 to 2015.

  • Fine scale infectious disease modeling using satellite-derived data

    This research leveraged fine-scale satellite data on urban areas to build a road-connected geospatial network upon which to model disease spread.

  • Fighting slavery from space

    The profusion of high-resolution, freely available satellite data has enabled Dr Boyd and her team to make the first credible estimate of the number of brick kilns across South Asia and their impact on the environment.

  • Buildings belonging to NRC destroyed in Ethiopia’s Tigray

    Buildings set up to serve refugees were among several destroyed in Ethiopia’s Tigray region according to satellite imagery received by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

  • Iran Moving Key Facility at Nuclear Site Underground, Report Shows

    In July, an explosion rocked a key Iranian nuclear facility. Iran called it sabotage and vowed to rebuild a destroyed building underground. Iran is now turning that promise into a reality, new satellite images show, reported the New York Times.

  • Satellite Images Show More Than 200 Rohingya Villages Burned in Myanmar

    An analysis of satellite images from Myanmar found that hundreds of villages of the Rohingya ethnic minority have been set on fire since late August 2017.

  • Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative (PCRAFI)

    The Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative (PCRAFI) has developed catastrophe risk models specific to the Pacific Islands using the EO-based hazard and exposure databases. OpenDRI repository for the Pacific Region providing premier risk-related geospatial data sets for enabling Better Information for Smarter Investments, ranging from satellite, aerial imagery to project-related asset, risk and […]

  • Using Satellite Imagery to Overcome Methodological Challenges in Studying Environmental Displacement

    The presence of additional data to confirm or expand upon reports from more remote areas of Somalia could have expedited the identification of those at risk of hunger and displacement.

  • AfriScout

    AfriScout’s unique crowd-sourcing system of geolocated alerts enables pastoralists to enhance collaboration on land management by allocating specific areas to different herders.

  • Emergency and Disaster Management

    Accelerate disaster response with daily, high resolution imagery. Mitigate risk, get situational awareness, and improve recovery with before, during, and after disaster imagery, anywhere on Earth.

  • Search and Rescue (SAR) / Galileo Service

    Global Search and Rescue (SAR) operations quickly locate and help people in distress.

  • Satellite Imagery Shows Captives Inside Camp No. 25 in North Korea

    The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) wishes to highlight the release of commercial satellite imagery showing North Korean victims likely engaged in forced labor inside North Korea’s Political Prison Camp No. 25.

  • Lead Contamination Threat to Migrants Unresolved

    Through satellite imagery analysis and interviews with migrants living in the camp, Human Rights Watch confirmed that authorities had not relocated about 90 residential tents, five reception structures, and nine administrative structures in close proximity to contaminated areas.

  • Why do refugees need Wi-Fi?

    The UN Refugee Agency, Google, and data-communications provider O3b Networks have partnered to provide a Wi-Fi connection to refugees in these camps in Chad through satellite connections.

  • Analysis of Alleged Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria

    Human Rights Watch used GPS data and satellite imagery analysis to map the precise locations were the attacks took place.

  • Abuses by Government and Separatist Groups in Cameroon’s Anglophone Regions

    Human Rights Watch has assessed a total of 131 villages via satellite imagery for evidence of building destruction.

  • Daily Coherent Ground Track Repeat

    ICEYE’S constellation of agile New Space satellites is designed to rapidly revisit any area on the globe, enabling repeating ground track image acquisition from the same location – daily or even multiple times per day. The ability to identify and monitor changes in the range of millimeters enables entirely new applications, including predicting, preventing and […]

  • Turning over a New Leaf for Agricultural Financing with Frequent Crop Monitoring from Space

    ICEYE provides timely and reliable data with its growing SAR satellite constellation, with customized solutions to help boost agricultural financing and improve control processes.

  • ICEYE Flood Monitoring

    Persistent and comprehensive identification of floods world-wide.

  • ICEYE Insurance

    Gain fast and accurate information for property assessment with SAR data, make better pricing, and optimize risk selection to improve your portfolio.

  • ICEYE Security

    Iceye Sar Satellite Data For The Security Sector

  • EO4SD – The Atlas Mountains Rural Development Project (PDRMA)

    A cluster of land information services that were delivered to IFAD and the national level stakeholders: Land cover change mapping, Tools to assess land degradation and environmental conditions, Value chain assessment.

  • Satellite Technologies, Innovative and Smart Financing for Food Security (SATISFY)

    It proposed a market-based innovative risk management solution in the form of Risk-Contingent Credit (RCC), a linked or bundled financial product that incorporates insurance protection, providing a risk-efficient balance between business and financial risks.

  • Secure Watch

    Using their Secure Watch satellite imagery platform, the team mapped remote regions of Lake Volta and pinpointed locations.

  • IDP Camp Directory

    A mixed methods approach to data collection was employed for this assessment, including mapping of camp infrastructure using satellite imagery analysis.

  • ESRI Land Cover

    A 10-meter resolution map of Earth’s land surface from 2020. High-resolution, open, accurate, comparable, and timely land cover maps are critical for decision-makers in many industry sectors and developing nations. These maps improve understanding of important topics such as food security, land use planning, hydrology modeling, and resource management planning. In addition, national government resource […]

  • Innovative SatComms for Inclusive and Sustainable Fishing

    Environmentally unsustainable fishing, including illegal and unreported fishing, harms the entire value chain, as well as introducing safety and security challenges. This solution uses fishing Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS), whereby equipment that is installed on fishing vessels provides information about the vessels’ position and activity.

  • iSDAsoil

    They help smallholder farmers across Africa increase their productivity using advanced technologies.

  • Satellite Aided Search and Rescue

    India is a member of the international COSPAS-SARSAT programme for providing distress alert and position location service through LEOSAR (Low Earth Orbit Search And Rescue) satellite system. Indian Local User Terminals provide coverage to a large part of the Indian Ocean region rendering distress alert services to Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Seychelles, Sri Lanka and […]

  • How AI is helping uncover modern slavery

    Following reports of forced labour at one camp, spatial and temporal analysis based on EO data revealed operational trends.

  • The Libyan Conflict through the Lens of Very High Resolution Satellite Imagery

    Very High Resolution Satellite Imagery at True 30 cm can provide crucial insights for geointelligence (GEOINT) during conflict. European Space Imaging partnered with reseller Geo4i to investigate the current ongoing Libyan Civil War.

  • Relative Wealth Index

    Granular geographic targeting, down to 2-by-2-kilometer squares, may help pinpoint the very poorest who need urgent financial assistance—and COVID-19 vaccines.

  • SPOT Devices

    SPOT offers peace of mind, using 100% satellite technology. SPOT products keep you connected to the people and things that matter most. SPOT allows you to track assets, send and receive messages, send your GPS position and status, mark waypoints, track your progress on SPOT Mapping and notify search and rescue officials in the event […]

  • DEA Water Observations

    It is the world’s first continent-scale map of surface water and provides images and data showing where water has been seen in Australia from 1987 to the present.

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    The first deliveries of up to 2.5 million doses of COVAX vaccines by autonomous drone.

  • Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratories (GSNL)

    In 2018, the Hawaii Supersite was impacted by a crisis at Kilauea volcano, where a lava flow destroyed over 700 homes. Starting in late May, the Kilauea caldera began to rapidly subside. In two months, parts of the ground had dropped by 400 meters, a level rarely observed in a volcano eruption. High resolution InSAR […]

  • Satellite often the fastest way to restore communications after a disaster

    In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Viasat deployed satellite connectivity to help support recovery efforts across the island.

  • Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS)

    The Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) is a GEO Community Activity that provides flood warnings across country borders with forecasts beyond 15 days. During the August 2017 Bangladesh floods, the system provided an opportunity to evaluate the forecasting improvements.

  • Kenya Crop Monitor

    Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, Livestock and Fisheries has issued the country’s first national crop monitor, with support from NASA SERVIR, Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), and the Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural Monitoring Initiative (GEOGLAM). Information on crop conditions from across Kenya was made publically available in the first […]

  • Agriculture & Rural

    Satellite Earth observation is a powerful technique for continuously providing geospatial information across the agricultural value chain, to measure productivity and increase efficiency of agriculture, identify sustainability of farming practices and strengthening the resilience of rural communities.

  • Urban Reconstruction In Post-Conflict Settings

    Remote sensing-based methods were employed to assess damages, and reconstruction and recovery needs in Syria.

  • The Gambia Integrated Urban and Coastal Resilience Technical Assistance Program

    Mapping of Greater Banjul and Assessing Subsidence; Greater Banjul Flood and Sea Level Rise Risk Assessment; Coastal Risk Assessment; Data Management and visualization.

  • Using high resolution satellite data for the identification of urban natural disaster risk

    Very High Resolution satellite imagery and field data generate information on hazard, exposure (mostly the building stock) and vulnerability. The information is structured within a Geographical Information System that provides the platform for integration, standardization and modeling.

  • Smartphones and Satellite Imagery: Bringing Environmental Enforcement to the Peruvian Amazon

    While verifying the alert, they took georeferenced photos and measurements of the area, and recorded the names of suspected culprits who had invaded from a neighboring territory.

  • Stained Trade

    Through satellite images, this report reveals how companies along wood product supply chains leading through China are failing to screen out illegal timber, the risks this creates for U.S. companies, and the devastating impacts the trade is having on people in PNG.

  • HALO Trust

    The HALO trust, an organization devoted to the clearance of landmines, uses satellite imagery within Google Earth Pro to determine landmines locations based on agricultural cultivation.

  • Earth Observation for Flood and Drought Resilience

    The solution provides granular information on the likelihood of flood or drought and supports the assessment of the socio-economic impacts of these events, thus assisting policy makers targeting resilient economic development. It also supports decision making and the development of improved insurance products that pay out to people in greatest need at the required time, […]

  • RIOS: Re-settlement Information and Observing System

    The project, called Re-settlement Information and Observing System (RIOS) led by Institute for Environmental Analytics, at the University of Reading, will use Earth Observation (EO) satellites to provide a monitoring service for managing informal settlements in Colombia. The project will help mitigate against the danger of loss of life arising from natural disasters in settlement […]

  • Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

    HOT works with communities and disaster management agencies to map and understand risk by developing comprehensive data sets on buildings, roads, and key lifeline infrastructure data.

  • Refugee Response

    OpenStreetMap is used by UNHCR and humanitarian agencies in decisions that improve conditions for refugees, and by refugees themselves to navigate their new environments.

  • Using Satellite Imagery to Generate Awareness and Funds for Refugees

    Using satellite imagery from refugee camps in South Sudan, the team helped USA for UNHCR create prototypes of two new tools to increase awareness of the refugee crisis and potentially help inform relief efforts on the ground.

  • Global Deformation System

    With the world’s first automated, global subsidence and deformation monitoring system, we help mining and metals companies mitigate ground stability risks.

  • World Settlement Footprint and Change

    It comes as a binary product showing built-up and non-builtup areas. An intermediate step in the production of this dataset is the generation of a soil sealing/imperviousness layer, showing in percentage the degree of sealed surface.

  • Methodology for SDGs indicators assessment

    The present proposal aims at developing automated workflows for calculating SDG Indicators grouped by use of land cover maps as the baseline. The main goal is to adopt, improve and apply already proposed methodologies, which were used for generating global products with coarse spatial resolution data, to higher spatial resolution data (up to 10 m), […]

  • Strata

    Earth Stress monitor, is a platform that will use data captured through satellite imagery and cloud computing to improve the mapping of environmental and climate stresses globally and reveal where harmful climate change overlaps with other environmental stressors, such as war, temperature, noise and crowds.

  • Using satellite imagery in conflict-affected areas in Mali to support WFP’s emergency response

    A pilot study was carried out by the World Food Programme (WFP) Mali in the Mopti region in 2019 where earth observation data was used to detect cropland abandonment in hard-to-reach areas to assess the physical impacts of conflict on croplands and therefore detect populations in likely need of food assistance.

  • Supporting Emergency Telecoms

    Since signing the Crisis Connectivity Charter, satellite operators have been active on all continents supporting WFP, governments and NGOs, enabling VoIP, Wi-Fi and internet access via satellite to support supply logistics, urgent medical care and coordination of relief efforts.

  • Intelsat Disaster Relief Program

    Intelsat Disaster Relief Program Provides Emergency Communications Support to Qualified Humanitarian Organizations within 24 Hours.

  • Emirates Red Crescent Fortifies Remote Learning and Other Humanitarian Initiatives with Yahsat’s Satellite Services

    Yahsat’s resources will be deployed to support the Authority’s remote education programmes and facilitate help for young people, families and schools in countries affected by disasters and crises.

  • NGO & Humanitarian Aid

    Speedcast works closely with humanitarian organizations to create on-the-go connectivity solutions that are easy to deploy, use and fit into your budget.

  • The humanitarian technology we use to connect after disasters

    The standard ETC solution consists of a satellite system and satellite capacity from Emergency.lu, a public – private partnership of the Government of Luxembourg and private companies in Luxembourg. Ericsson Response then provides the access network for that connectivity.

  • Mobile Satellite Services (MSS)

    Télécoms Sans Frontières systematically deploys to humanitarian crises, caused by natural disasters or conflicts, with a fleet of several satellite terminals and satellite phones to provide its expertise and support to humanitarian coordination or other organisations to facilitate the exchange of information and improve the effectiveness of the response.

  • Always On Emergency Communications for Real-Time Situational Awareness

    Telesat works collaboratively with first responders and public safety officers to deliver real-time secure connectivity for data and voice services that are mission critical in every crisis scenario.

  • EO4SD – Reconstruction Monitoring

    Provision of damage assessment at different stages over the time and progress monitoring statistics of the reconstruction works.

  • Crisis Connectivity Charter

    The Crisis Connectivity Charter signed in 2015 between the EMEA Satellite Operators Association (ESOA), Global VSAT Forum (GVF), UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA) and ETC. The Crisis Connectivity Charter, signed by Arabsat, Eutelsat, Global Eagle, Hispasat, Inmarsat, Intelsat, SES, Thuraya and Yahsat, seeks to help the humanitarian response community by improving its […]

  • Rapid Deployment Connectivity Kit For Humanitarian Response Teams

    IEC Telecom, with mobile-satellite service provider Thuraya, has introduced the company’s Rapid Deployment Kit (RDK) that is designed to provide Humanitarian Response Teams with reliable connectivity during COVID-19 and support emergency and disaster relief efforts even in the most remote areas.

  • GSE Humanitarian Aid (Respond)

    The GSE Humanitarian Aid (Respond) is an alliance of European and International organisations working with the humanitarian community to improve access to maps, satellite imagery and geographic information.

  • Satellite imagery reveals decline in ISIS oil production

    Using satellite imagery, a team of researchers led by Princeton University and the World Bank analyzed 42 oil production sites controlled by ISIS across Syria and Iraq.

  • Kenya: an insurance scheme based on satellite data for vulnerable pastoralists

    In 2010 ILRI, Cornell and other partners, launched an insurance scheme based on satellite imagery to predict and compensate insured pastoralists for livestock losses due to drought.

  • Satellite Imagery For Emergency Management

    Pre- and post-event satellite imagery enables first responders to make the most impact by quickly mapping passable routes to deliver critical services in the most efficient manner.

  • Burundi: Satellite evidence supports witness accounts of mass graves

    Compelling new satellite images, video footage and witness accounts analysed by Amnesty International strongly indicate that dozens of people killed by Burundian security forces in December were later buried in mass graves.

  • Myanmar: Video and satellite evidence shows new fires still torching Rohingya villages

    Amnesty International has assessed satellite imagery with smoke visible over burnt-out structures. Additionally, satellite sensors detected a recent active fire in the village, further corroborating the incident.

  • Apollo Agriculture

    Apollo Agriculture helps small-scale farmers maximise their profits in Kenya by bundling credit for farm inputs with insurance. Apollo Agriculture uses machine learning, EO, and mobile phones to deliver credit, farm products, and customised advice to farmers efficiently and at scale.

  • Africa RiskView

    Africa RiskView is designed to interpret different types of weather data, including rainfall estimates, and information about crops, such as soil and cropping calendars. These data are then converted into meaningful indicators for agricultural production and pasture and applied to the vulnerable populations that depend on rainfall for crops and rangeland for their livelihoods.

  • African Flood Extent Depiction (AFED)

    The ARC Flood Extent Depiction Model (AFED) is a daily depiction of temporarily flooded areas everywhere in Africa. At the end of 2016, AER completed the pan-African Flood Extent Depiction (AFED) product for ARC using historical daily data starting in 1992. The product includes automated near real-time AFED processing streams to produce Africa-wide daily updates […]

  • Using satellite multispectral imagery for damage mapping of armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) in maize at a regional scale

    The objectives of this study were to determine suitable spectral features for armyworm detection and to develop a mapping method at a regional scale on the basis of satellite remote sensing image data.

  • Planning & Implementing Post-Conflict Recovery

    Supplementing a preliminary analysis based on satellite imagery, members of the team collected more detailed conditions information and identified priorities for stabilization.

  • Crop Yield Decision Support in Ghana

    This project provides information on maize yields in Ghana, such as current yields to help plan harvesting, transport and processing, future yields to inform markets and enhance long term food security and past yields to help farmers benchmark and improve productivity. The monitoring and forecasting system is based on the integration of physical crop models, […]

  • COVID-19 COUNTDOWN

    Atlas AI’s mission is to identify the most impactful and sustainable opportunities for economic well-being with an easy to use platform. To access insightful information in a data-spare environment, we created Aperture™ – a platform to host the most meaningful datasets for emerging and frontier markets. Covid-19 Countdown is working towards efficient and equitable vaccine […]

  • How School Children Became Pawns in Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis

    Images visible on satellite mapping services detail the charred remains of buildings in several Cameroonian villages.

  • Using satellite imagery for emergency disaster response

    BGS has a long history of assisting relief efforts by providing satellite maps, data and interpretation to those affected by disasters, helping to identify hazardous areas to avoid.

  • BlackSky’s Technology Leveraged to Monitor Secretive Iranian Nuclear Facility

    BlackSky’s high-revisit satellite imagery enabled researchers at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) to monitor the pattern of life at the Natanz nuclear facility and gain a better understanding of activity and events at the site.

  • China Secretly Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Muslims

    In the most extensive investigation of China’s internment camp system ever done using publicly available satellite images, BuzzFeed News identified more than 260 structures built since 2017 and bearing the hallmarks of fortified detention compounds.

  • Informal settlements and change

    This mapping product includes the detection of the type (phase of development of settlements, e.g., established/permanent or new developments) and extent (in terms of location and area) of informal settlements.

  • Terrain and infrastructure motion

    This product contains spatially explicit information on land subsidence areas and affected infrastructure.

  • EO4SD – Flood risk assessment

    The flood hazard map shows the occurrences of flood events during the past 10 years. The map aims to give an idea about the flood presence in terms of both frequency and extent in the city, and illustrates which part is, in general, flooded more often than other areas.

  • FarmDrive

    FarmDrive explores the use of satellite imagery to augment its data collection and analytics for evaluating loans to smallholder farmers in Kenya.

  • Cospas-Sarsat

    The International Cospas-Sarsat Programme provides accurate, timely, and reliable distress alert and location data to help search and rescue authorities assist persons in distress.

  • Dengue MOdel Forecasting Satellite-based System (D-MOSS)

    The Dengue MOdel forecasting Satellite-based System (D-MOSS) project is developing a dengue fever early warning system.The tool generates several months advance warning of likely dengue outbreaks.

  • Kenyan Livestock Insurance Programme (KLIP)

    The Kenyan Livestock Insurance Programme (KLIP) is provided by the government to protect the most vulnerable pastoralists in Kenya. KLIP uses an algorithm that combines survey data on livestock mortality with EO data on vegetation cover to develop an index that predicts livestock mortality. During drought conditions and forage scarcity, the index predicts livestock loss. […]

  • Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights – North Korea’s Prison Camps Case Study Summary

    As part of this study, the U.S. Committee for Human Rights worked with the Natural Resource Defense Council to obtain commercially available satellite imagery of the area over seven of the prison camps in North Korea.

  • High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and the Conflict in Chad and Sudan

    AAAS, in conjunction with Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Genocide Intervention Network, has been monitoring and documenting the violence in 28 locations throughout the Darfur region of Sudan and eastern Chad since 2006.

  • Satellite Imagery and Possible Mass Graves in Sheberghan, Afghanistan

    AAAS reviewed satellite imagery of the Sheberghan area of northern Afghanistan, where possible mass graves were suspected of being created in 2001.

  • Monitoring Border Conflicts with Satellite Imagery

    Satellite imagery, with its ability to reliably monitor remote and otherwise inaccessible areas over time, provides a way to circumvent some of the challenges associated with monitoring border conflicts.

  • Using satellite imagery to improve immunization coverage in DRC

    Partners, including Acasus, worked together to provide innovative satellite-based data maps to help vaccinators plan how to reach unvaccinated children.

  • QZSS Red Rescue Project

    It is a real-time disaster response solution, which sends emergency messages through the L1-SAIF signal from QZSS satellites to government, relevant authorities as well as the general public through smartphone equipped with GNSS chips during times of emergencies.

  • EO4SD – Flood Forecasting and Early Warning System (FFEWS)

    The ESA EO4SD-Urban project supported Kolkata Municipal Council (KMC) and ADB to integrate EO data into the city’s Flood Forecasting and Early Warning System (FFEWS). The FFEWS is designed to provide forecasts and real-time updates from sensor nodes installed in specific hotspots. Data is communicated to the KMC’s control room and the real-time status of […]

  • Accelerating the Implementation of the Core Agriculture Support Program

    The consultant developed the system that provides near-real-time satellite-based drought indices and provincial level drought warning information for policy makers.

  • Applying Remote Sensing Technology in River Basin Management

    Improvement of flood forecasting using satellite-based rainfall data and study to apply a Digital Terrain Model to local flood model.

  • Climate-Resilient Rural Livelihoods in Mongolia

    The project is assisting the ADB ”Establishment of Climate-Resilient Rural Livelihoods” project, which in turn supports the Mongolian government’s efforts to develop a sustainable, climate resilient livestock sector and combat the degradation of grasslands due to overgrazing and climate change.

  • Innovative Data Collection Methods for Agricultural and Rural Statistics

    Alternative methods such as advances in satellite based technology are explored in this Technical Assistance to help countries adopt better approaches in estimating rice crop area and production, and consequently develop better evidence-based policy making.

  • Empowering Developing Member Countries to Use Multispectral Satellite Images and Artificial Intelligence for Land Use and Coastal Planning

    The proposed Technical Assistance will produce three outputs: (i) cloud-based platform operationalized; (ii) integration of EO technology solutions into projects supported; and (iii) knowledge in adopting EO-based solutions improved.

  • Transport Sector Climate Proofing in Timor-Leste

    The EO support project helped to better quantify climate risks, especially from floods and droughts, and in particular on the road network in Timor-Leste.

  • Urban Services Improvement in Mandalay

    A demonstration of the operational rapid flood mapping capacity of the Sentinel-1 radar sensor at approx. 20 m resolution was demonstrated by analysis of time series from July-September 2015, when Myanmar was subject of severe floods which for some areas of the country were the worst in the last decade.

  • River Basin Flood Management In Indonesia

    The objective of the EO support project was to develop EO-based information products that could be used to prepare flood risk management plans as well as flood forecasting and early-warning systems in support of integrated flood risk management.

  • Disaster Risk Assessment In Bangladesh

    The EO supports project linked to the ADB activity by providing datasets that support assessment of nature of disaster risk profiling: probability of occurrence, and the potential loss of, or impact on, life and physical capital. The delivered information included land use and land cover, a DEM, flood history as well as disaster risk data […]

  • Satellite images show China emptying army camps at Indian border

    China has dismantled dozens of structures and moved vehicles to empty out entire camps along a disputed Himalayan border, where Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a face-off since last April, according to satellite images.

  • Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP)

    MAAP can identify and determine the legality of deforestation at any scale and at any point across the entire Amazon basin.

  • AMIGOclimate

    AMIGOclimate is a unique software as a service (SaaS) that exploits the best available science data to help companies adapt their strategies to the Earth’s changing climate.

  • New satellite images show Hungary’s rush to keep refugees out of Europe

    New satellite images obtained by Amnesty International give a chilling new perspective on Hungary’s frenzied efforts to repel refugees and asylum-seekers.

  • SkyTruth

    A public mapping platform that detects mining activity in dense rainforest habitat using satellite radar and drone imagery.

  • Sustainable Technology Adaptation for Mali’s Pastoralists (STAMP)

    STAMP aims to improve resilience among climate affected pastoralists, through access to and use of geo-satellite derived data. This will result in an information service tailor-made to pastoralists’ information and decision making needs, giving them more predictability for their movements.

  • SN7: Multi-Temporal Urban Development Challenge

    SpaceNet 7 has demonstrated that identifying, tracking, and detecting change in precise building footprints using moderate resolution (4m) Planet imagery is possible. Tracking urbanization and construction at the unique building level is critical for improving upon existing course population estimates.

  • Honeywell Search and Rescue solutions

    Honeywell SAR offers an immense portfolio of hardware and software solutions for majority of COSPAS-SARSAT systems in operation today. The technology spans the entire ecosystem: from ground stations to mission control systems, to Rescue Coordination Center systems and network infrastructure. Honeywell ground stations portfolio includes Low Earth Orbit (LEO) stations, Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) stations, […]

  • Making Pastoralists Count

    Using up-to-date, high resolution satellite imagery, we conducted a complete census of real-time settlement distribution.

  • Cutting Edge GIS Technologies for COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery

    World Health Organization regional centers have been leveraging geospatial technologies for years. GIS has revolutionized vaccine distribution planning, monitoring, and evaluation.

  • IDP Camp Counting

    Monitoring and evaluating the activity of IDP camps in Afghanistan through the use of Machine Learning.

  • Navigating Informality Perils and Prospects in Metro Manila’s Slums

    Lack of comprehensive, accurate, up-to-date data on locations of slums and their characteristics has been a barrier to proper planning and addressing the needs of the urban poor in Metro Manila. To address this challenge, a unique geospatial approach was applied to process very high resolution satellite images and identify and delineate the slums at […]

  • NDVI Analysis

    Using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) remote sensing method, regional agricultural activity and vegetation on the ground was monitored and analysed by registering the spectral signature of chlorophyll and therefore the vegetation canopy, on a satellite sensor using a sequence of images over time.

  • Nightlight Analysis For Economic Recovery Analysis

    Some studies have found a correlation between nightlight output and GDP on a city level, although few studies have generalised this to conflict settings.

  • Regional Spatial Analysis Of Refugee Settlements

    The Ukhiya Camps Profile in Cox’s Bazar was conducted to serve as a guiding document for policy and decision makers in local, regional and national governments, as well as in the private sector and local and international NGOs.

  • Satellite Damage Assessment

    This tool aims to understand the impact of conflict to structures in the city. Results can be analysed on several levels; from building level to neighborhood to city level.

  • Geolocalized Maps and Satellite Imagery Analysis

    In late 2016, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UNITAR-UNOSAT entered into a three-year collaboration period with the purpose of developing a web-mapping interface for the monitoring and evaluation of 15 UNDP projects focused on infrastructure rehabilitation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

  • Damage Assessment In Luganville Municipality, Sanma Province, Vanuatu

    Potentially damaged structures and buildings in Luganville Municipality, Sanma Province, Vanuatu as detected by satellite image acquired after landfall of the Tropical Cyclone Harold-20 on 6 April 2020.

  • Accurately assess agriculture risk

    Determine risk factors associated with reducing or eliminating crop yield based on historical weather, geohazards, and crop health.

  • Protect Critical Infrastructure

    Protect Critical Infrastructure- Build solutions to remotely manage, monitor, and optimize critical, high-value infrastructure, such as pipelines and utilities.

  • ESA Urban Thematic Exploration Platform

    The ESA Urban-Thematic Exploitation Platform (U-TEP) provides access to EO information, processing tools, and computing resource.

  • Project Concern International

    Project Concern International has developed customized digital community grazing maps overlaid with vegetation data derived from NASA satellites.

  • Drought Watch

    This is the Weights & Biases community benchmark for deep learning models for drought detection from satellite. With better models, index insurance companies can monitor drought conditions—and send resources to families in the area—more effectively.

  • North Korea’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site: Primed and Ready

    Commercial satellite imagery of North Korea’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site from April 12 shows continued activity around the North Portal, new activity in the Main Administrative Area, and a few personnel around the site’s Command Center.

  • SatComms for Climate and Disaster Resilience

    A SatComms solution that provides a secure, reliable, always-on communications infrastructure. For governments and public safety services to maintain command & control, situational awareness and continuity of operations in chaotic emergency situations.

  • SCYTALE Suite

    A portable SatComms system that can be for the first responders, up to a medium sized deployable headquarters, communities, relief camps and field hospitals. It does not rely on terrestrial mobile network infrastructure which is often lacking in rural areas or might be damaged during a disaster.

  • The Ground Truth to Satellite Imagery: A Premise Solution

    Nigeria’s vast and dynamic landscape includes numerous communities that lie outside the purview of the official map registry. The rural nature of these settlements, i.e., villages or hamlets, makes it difficult to reach communities to deliver health, education and other services. The use of satellite imagery combined with the technical knowhow of GRID3 has led […]

  • SatComms for Natural Disasters

    Inmarsat provides in-situ powerful but easily deployable equipment, including Inmarsat’s new Global Xpress (GX) satellite equipment during disaster response scenarios. Global Xpress (GX) terminals allow communications at speeds not previously possible for emergency response teams and mobile BGANs allow responders to provide in situ impact assessments. Rapid deployment at the disaster area provides the national […]

  • Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE)

    Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE) is an innovative crop pest and disease risk forecasting product designed for smallholders and commercial producers in developing countries. Bringing together a broad range of stakeholders, including plant protection authorities, space experts, private sector companies, and the farmers themselves, PRISE uses state-of-the-art crop and pest modelling techniques to provide users […]

  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)

    Global Forest Watch Pro (GFW Pro) is an online management application to support reducing deforestation in commodity supply chains.

  • The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya is visible from space

    The imagery comes from Planet. It shows Kutupalong refugee camp, spreading over an area a little larger than ten square miles.

  • Rangeland Analysis Platform

    The Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP) is an interactive web application designed to assist in managing and monitoring America’s valuable rangelands.

  • Satellite data powers flood early warning system

    Vietnamese and American researchers joined efforts to develop a satellite-based system approach to monitor and manage transboundary flooding.

  • National Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning Bulletin

    U-NIEWS monthly bulletin can be used to understand the conditions of crops and pasture, food insecurity, weather/climate forecast and to determine the anticipated disasters which may occur in the days to come while providing the disaster and humanitarian response status update based on monthly statistics. The information in this bulletin can be used as baseline […]

  • Reveal

    Reveal ensures equitable access to life-saving immunizations, antibiotics, and protective measures by supporting field teams in identifying where people live and what services are needed. Reveal promotes powerful analytics by combining geospatial data and context-specific planning and accountability tools to provide necessary information that ensures all families in need are found and receive services.

  • Improving Food Security and Agricultural Competitiveness (IFSAC)

    The Satellite Applications Catapult has been working with users from across the agricultural sector in Latin America to educate and demonstrate how satellite technologies can help optimise the production of rice, soybean, and table grapes.

  • Agriculture

    Satellites give us detailed geographical and climate records of any place in the world, from the 1990s to today. We build on field research by collecting and analyzing this data and combining it with other relevant information like commodity prices and news coverage.

  • Striata

    Macro-Eyes developed Striata, a product running core Macro-Eyes artificial intelligence (AI), to continuously assess the national health system and generate health facility readiness scores for COVID-19 response.

  • Forest and Wild Fire Monitoring

    eOsphere satellite ground receiving stations have been installed in countries worldwide (including Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Greece, Mongolia and Cuba) to allow government agencies to detect and monitor forest and wild fires using medium resolution thermal infrared and visible satellite data in near real time. As well as detecting and monitoring fires, the product also detects […]

  • Exposure and Multi-hazard Data for Disaster Risk Management (METEOR)

    National-scale robust exposure data providing consistent and validated information on building type and construction for disaster risk management. National-scale hazard and multi-hazard data covering earthquakes, floods, landslides and volcanic events.

  • Big Data and disaster risk management

    In Uttarakhand, the team applied local weather data enhancement using alternative data sources, including satellite-based rainfall products (specifically, GPM and CHIRPS), together with other weather variables from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ERAInterim climate models to produce final flood hazard and risk maps.

  • Innovative Data Project to Support Efforts in Combating Fall Armyworm

    A pilot project by Self Help Africa using satellite imagery, heat mapping and mobile phone technology to gather data for the fight against an invading pest that threatens Africa’s food crops, has won an international award for innovation.

  • BioGenerator

    The BioGenerator uses satellite data to analyse plant production, or biomass, during the rainy season. Detecting production anomalies allows areas vulnerable to drought to be targeted. The BioGenerator is used by the SAP (Early Warning System) in Mali.

  • Open Buildings

    Building footprints are useful for a range of important applications, from population estimation, urban planning and humanitarian response, to environmental and climate science. This large-scale open dataset contains the outlines of buildings derived from high-resolution satellite imagery in order to support these types of uses. The project being based in Ghana, the current focus is […]

  • Mineria Ilegal

    RAISG decided to start the process of making the status of illegal mining visible with a Pan-Amazonian approach. To do this, the first step was to create a map with the best available information compiled from different sources, with a focus on Indigenous Territories (IT) and Protected Natural Areas (ANP).

  • Earth Observations For Field Level Agricultural Resource Mapping (EO-FARM)

    The EO-FARM project is a collaboration with Swiss Re Foundation, using Earth observations data to enhance food security and resilience in small-holder dominated regions by revolutionizing fundamental datasets needed for agricultural monitoring and enhancing government Crop Insurance programs.

  • Space-age technology points African herders in right direction

    In a pilot project launched by Cornell researchers, satellite images and cell-phone apps will combine to help them find forage for their animals.

  • Satellite images ‘prove Rohingya villages were burned’

    Satellite images have emerged that allegedly prove Rohingya villages were torched after Myanmar said “clearance operations” had ceased.

  • Geo4Nonpro

    Geo4Nonpro was a Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) project that ran from 2016-2020 and united geospatial analysis hobbyists, experts, and novices to use satellite imagery to interpret, annotate, and discover insights into weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs around the world.

  • Geodata Based Information Services for smallholder farmers in Bangladesh

    GEOBIS uses spatial and other geodata for providing effective, time and location specific advisory services to smallholder farmers in Bangladesh. It is aimed at improving agricultural productivity and farmer income, upgrading agricultural zoning and at improving the management of weather related emergencies.

  • GEOPOTATO – Geodata to control potato late blight in Bangladesh

    The G4AW supported project, GEOPOTATO, aims to sustainably improve resource-use efficiency in potato production in Bangladesh by providing farmer with an EO-derived decision-support service to control the late blight fungal disease. The alert service is e provided on subscription to farmers, through SMS or voicemail.

  • MODHEM Burkina Faso

    The Mobile Data for Moving Herd Management (MODHEM) project in Burkina Faso uses satellite data to inform pastoralists on the best locations for pastures and water areas via their mobile phones. Additionally, an early warning system will warn pastoralists of flooding, drought, and disease.

  • Disaster Data Response Mechanism (CDDR)

    High-resolution satellite images provided to the Islamic Republic of Iran by the ChinaGEOSS Disaster Data Response Mechanism in support of disaster response in flooded regions.

  • AfriCultuReS Decision Support System (ADSS) Community Version

    The project will deliver space based agricultural production services that are aligned with the African Space Policy and Strategy and AfriGEOSS, the African segment of the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) in the domain of food security.

  • Monitoring Rice Paddy and Flood in the Lower Mekong Basin

    This proposal aims to establish cloud computing services to host, process and analyse big Earth observation (EO) data and geospatial information for our projects focused on a) monitoring rice paddy (agriculture) and b) flood (disaster and water resources management).

  • Community Mobility Reports

    Google Maps uses aggregated, anonymized data to show how busy certain locations are, so you can identify a store’s peak hours, for example.

  • A convolutional neural network approach to predict non-permissive environments from moderate-resolution imagery

    This article explores a CNN-based approach leveraging Landsat 8 imagery to predict locations of conflict-related deaths.

  • Deep Learning for Disaster Recovery: Automatic Detection of Flooded Roads

    Deep Learning solution to automatically detect flooded roads during natural disasters.

  • Activities Continue at the Abandoned 50 MWe Reactor at Yongbyon

    In the monitoring report on the 50 MWe Reactor at Yongbyon from 9 July 2021, ONN noted that the roof of one of the buildings adjacent to the main reactor hall had been removed. The scale of the reported activity appeared to be larger than the previously reported instances in 2018 and 2019. However, the […]

  • SERVIR Nepal

    In Ethiopia, EO4SD provided satellite-based data and capacity training to the teams of the World Bank’s Sustainable land management project – Phase II, IFAD’s Participatory Small-scale Irrigation Development Programme – Phase II, and UNDP-implemented Integrated Landscape Management to Enhance Food Security and Ecosystem Resilience child projects.

  • KoBoToolbox

    KoBoToolbox is a suite of tools for field data collection for use in challenging environments. Our software is free and open source. Most of our users are people working in humanitarian crises, as well as aid professionals and researchers working in developing countries.

  • Open Critical Infrastructure Exposure for Disaster Forecasting, Mitigation, and Response

    Open Critical Infrastructure Exposure for Disaster Forecasting, Mitigation, and Response.

  • We help African smallholder farmers adapt to climate change

    Satellites continually scan African fields meaning continental wide monitoring and prediction is possible. PlantVillage utilizes many open-access tools that use remote sensing (MODIS / Landsat / NOAA / Sentinel / SMOS / FEWS NET).

  • Global Polio Eradication Initiative

    The daily work of vaccination teams can be tracked by using GIS, phones equipped to use the Global Positioning System (GPS) or other GPS loggers.

  • New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding

    Most estimates of global mean sea-level rise this century fall below 2 m. This quantity is comparable to the positive vertical bias of the principle digital elevation model (DEM) used to assess global and national population exposures to extreme coastal water levels, NASA’s SRTM. CoastalDEM is a new DEM utilizing neural networks to reduce SRTM error. […]

  • GRID3 data as a building block for COVAX interventions

    This work is one example of how GRID3, one of the COVAX technical partners, aims to support sub-Saharan African governments’ efforts to end the pandemic.

  • Infrastructure Mapping

    GRID3 works with local stakeholders and data collectors to update, collect, produce, and build capacity for production and management of geospatial data on development infrastructure.

  • Settlement Mapping

    GRID3 locates settlements so that all people, whether they live in farmland, suburbs, or cities, are visible to policy makers, critical service providers, and other stakeholders.

  • Looking inside the Continents from Space: Insights into Earthquake Hazard and Crustal Deformation

    GPS can provide very precise measurements of how individual points on the ground move, but such points are often sparsely distributed. This project uses differences in the radar returns acquired by the satellite at two different times to measure the displacement of one point over the intervening time interval. Displacements of a few millimeters or […]

  • MapAction

    Global humanitarian needs outstrip resources. Expert geospatial and data analysis can help stretch those resources for maximum impact. Many professionals want to donate their energy and skills to help. MapAction is the bridge which enables them to do so effectively. A non-profit organisation that collaborates with partners around the world to help anticipate, prepare for […]

  • Towards large-scale city reconstruction from satellites

    Inria proposed a full pipeline for producing compact and semantic-aware city models from satellite images.

  • healthsites.io

    The ability of local and national governments to anticipate and plan for response needs, including testing, treatment, contact tracing is seriously hindered by the lack of reliable maps. HOT is trying to fill this gap.

  • Global Refugee Atlas

    The Global Refugee Atlas visualizes and narrates core experiences of the millions of refugees under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) mandate using remote sensing data, crowdsourced social media data as well as a host of datasets from UNHCR and other international humanitarian agencies.

  • Digital Earth Australia Hotspots

    Digital Earth Australia Hotspots is a national bushfire monitoring tool which provides information about hotspots.

  • International Water Management Institute (IMWI)

    Index-based flood insurance (IBFI) is one such solution that is both cost-effective and can better target post-disaster relief to compensate agricultural losses. This project aims to integrate hi-tech modelling and satellite imagery with other data to predetermine flood thresholds, which could trigger speedy compensation payouts.

  • Detection and Profiling of New Settlements Through Satellite Imagery

    The detection process begins with the generation of a model from machine learning, supplied by the company Thinking Machines, which uses Sentinel-2 low-resolution satellite imagery to generate a probability map of new settlement locations.

  • Monitoring Nuclear Facilities Using Satellite Imagery and Associated Remote Sensing Techniques

    The SatCen Non Proliferation Team, part of the SatCen Operations Division, is responsible for the analysis of installations that are involved, or could be involved, in the preparation or acquisition of capabilities intended to divert the production of nuclear material for military purposes and, in particular, regarding the spread of Weapons of Mass destruction and […]

  • National Intertidal Digital Elevation Model

    NIDEM provides a first-of-its kind source of intertidal elevation data for Australia’s entire coastline.

  • MapSwipe

    MapSwipe is an open-source mobile app that is making mapping around the world more coordinated and efficient.

  • Before-and-after satellite images show massive influx of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

    New satellite images, provided to Mashable by commercial space imagery company DigitalGlobe, show the drastic changes to the Cox’s Bazar landscape over a period of just four months, as densely populated settlements quickly began to cover large swaths of the region.

  • Observing elections from space

    When over 7 million Afghan voters went to the polls, satellites captured images of even the most rural polling stations.

  • Ulyssys Water Quality Viewer

    Introducing the Ulyssys Water Quality Viewer, a custom script to dynamically visualize the chlorophyll and sediment conditions of water bodies on Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 images.

  • aWhere

    aWhere delivers weather-based agricultural intelligence to farmers, companies, development agencies and governments to enable data-driven decisions on adapting to increased weather variability at a local to global scale.

  • An interactive tool to map the world’s internally displaced populations supported by satellite imagery

    IDMC’s use of satellite imagery demonstrated the potentials of this innovative data source to draw a fast and accurate picture of population distributions, especially for specific local contexts.

  • AquaSat

    A new data set combining sample data and remote sensing could give scientists the power to make accurate water quality predictions at a global scale.

  • SIBELIUs

    Improved severe-weather resilience for herding communities using satellite Earth observation (EO). Benefits for the herding community will be achieved by using improved environmental information through three main channels: (1) the insurance sector, (2) government agencies coordinating livestock and land use, (3) directly to the herders through text messaging.

  • The whole world … connected, safe, and thriving

    Saving lives before disasters. Lynk’s first-to-market, patented technology is building the universal connectivity that can deliver first-ever emergency alerts, advance warnings, and evacuation orders to the thousands who might otherwise perish in disasters every year. Saving lives after disasters. For those who survive a disaster, the resulting destruction of infrastructure leaves even more victims disconnected, […]

  • Infectious Disease Planning With Geospatial Data

    During this epidemic, geospatial data provided a unique perspective and critical information for improved response and containment efforts.

  • China Is Building A Second Nuclear Missile Silo Field

    Satellite images reveal that China is building a second nuclear missile silo field. The Hami site was first spotted by Matt Korda, Research Associate for the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, using commercial satellite imagery. Higher resolution images of the site were subsequently provided by Planet.

  • Conducting Research on North Korea using Commercial Satellite Imagery, Map and Other Geographic Data

    In 2003 the Nuclear Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) undertook a project to create a geo-spatial database of North Korea, drawing on information from U.S. and South Korean military maps.

  • Flood and Drought Management Tools

    The Flood and Drought Management Tools project provides a methodology with online tools to facilitate the inclusion of information on floods and droughts, and future scenarios.

  • Creating Consumer Profiles For Rural Africa

    Satellite imagery, household surveys, and cloud computing can be used to reveal population characteristics in countries, cities, and neighborhoods across the entire African continent.

  • Fraym for Global Health

    Fraym offers fast, efficient, and accurate spatial data and analysis from the national to neighborhood level to inform project planning and adaptive management strategies across the Global South.

  • GIACIS – Geodata for Innovative Agricultural Credit Insurance Schemes

    The purpose of the Public-Private Partnership is to expand financial service delivery to smallholder farmers in Ethiopia with a geodata-driven risk-mitigation (insurance) product that offers a basic safety net to protect them against weather related perils. In partnership with local financial institutions, the insurance product will be bundled with credit to purchase agricultural inputs. In […]

  • Pest and Disease Surveillance via High-Resolution Satellites

    David Hughes of Pennsylvania State University in the U.S. is leveraging real-time, high-resolution satellite imagery of smallholder farms along with artificial intelligence to automatically detect crop pests and diseases in Africa.

  • GeoHazards Thematic Exploitation Platform

    The Geohazards Exploitation Platform or GEP aims to support the exploitation of satellite EO for geohazards.

  • EO4HumEn+: Extended EO-based services for dynamic information needs in humanitarian action

    The aim of the project EO4HumEn+ is to implement more automated routines to exploit the data stream of e.g. the Sentinel mission, improving the capabilities of EO methods to provide realistic population estimations also in urban areas as well as extend the established service portfolio to the diversifying needs of the humanitarian community, cooperating with […]

  • X3D4Pop: Suitability of mixed-satellite-sensor derived 3D data for rapid urban population estimation in crisis situations

    Suitability of mixed-satellite-sensor derived 3D data for rapid urban population estimation in crisis situations.

  • MotionMonitor

    Monitoring and highlighting ground movements around tailing dams, tailing beaches and the surrounding slopes to identify movement that could cause dam failure. The system will provide an early system and produce status reports detailing the risk of failure support by analysis of optical images to identify other risk factors. Developed in collaboration with Terra Motion […]

  • RE(ACT)

    Understand your exposure, accelerate claims triage and allocate reserves and resources using situational intelligence derived from real-time observations immediately after catastrophe (CAT) strikes. On call and ready to deploy 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, (RE)ACT provides the insurance industry with a full view of a catastrophe event’s impact down to individual property […]

  • Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL)

    The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) project produces global spatial information about the human presence on the planet over time. This in the form of built-up maps, population density maps and settlement maps. This information is generated with evidence-based analytics and knowledge using new spatial data mining technologies.

  • Earth Observation Data Management System

    The Earth Observation Data Management System (EODMS) is a geospatial platform provided by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) open to the general public to discover and download authoritative Canadian Earth Observation (EO) raster data.

  • The nature of water: unveiling the most detailed view of water on Earth

    The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has used Earth Engine to develop high-resolution maps of global surface water occurrence, change, seasonality, recurrence, and transition.

  • Commercial fishing

    Global Fishing Watch is harnessing innovative technology to turn transparent data into actionable information and drive tangible change in the way the ocean is governed.

  • Forests 2020

    Forests 2020 aims to use EO data from satellites to improve monitoring and management of forests in six developing countries: Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Ghana and Kenya. The project works with end users such as government ministries and regional forestry organisations to reduce deforestation and degradation. It works to increase restoration by improving their ability […]

  • FruitLook

    FruitLook provides weekly, semi real-time information on crop growth, evapotranspiration deficits and crop nitrogen status for irrigation blocks in orchards and vineyards in key growing areas of the Western Cape.

  • eLeaf Agriculture

    It uses up to date satellite based crop production information and crop specific yield models to provide further information on future outcomes.

  • Towards Semi-Automated Satellite Mapping for Humanitarian Situational Awareness

    In this paper, recent results in methodological research and development of routine services in satellite mapping for humanitarian situational awareness are reviewed and discussed.

  • Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS)

    Has been activated for several seasonal hurricanes and typhoons in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, such as hurricane Harvey in the US (2017), hurricane Michael (2018), and hurricane Florence (2018). In total 54 post-event maps were delivered to the Federal Emergency Management Agency which helped coordinate the assessment of flooding and infrastructure damage. The US […]

  • J-Alert

    J-ALERT is Japan’s emergency broadcast system launched in 2004, used to quickly and automatically disseminate information from the government to the public via satellite and an array of equipment set up nationwide, in cases of natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunami or floods, or attacks on Japan such as missile launches.

  • EO’s role in climate resilience

    ESA EO4SD-Climate Resilience project is providing a series of exposure and socioeconomic indicators for climate risk assessments in Bangladesh from EO.

  • EO4SD – Urban Development

    The EO4SD-Urban project provides support to the programme in the context of urban analyses and vulnerability assessment for the cities of Campeche (Mexico), Mendoza (Argentina) and Lima (Peru).

  • GEORICE

    The project focuses on making full use of Sentinel-1 observations for operational rice mapping products demonstrated over the Mekong river delta.

  • OneWeb Connectivity

    OneWeb’s network supports Air, Land, Sea, and Space communications for government networks and missions demanding rapid deployability; military-grade network security; flexibility, and the ability to scale. The consortium behind OneWeb, led by the UK Government and the Indian mobile network operator Bharti Global, offers unique opportunities for the government sector to bring digital inclusion to […]

  • Solutions for NGOs

    Talia’s emergency management solution provides high-speed IP communication via satellite, enabling first response, medical or emergency teams can have full communication capabilities.

  • Effective Satellite Communications solutions for NGO’s

    Castor provides reliable end-to-end Internet solutions, allowing your organization to focus on your core business; aid.

  • Communications for NGOs using Satellite Internet

    Freedomsat is a high-speed Satellite Internet solution that delivers fast and reliable internet to difficult to connect spots around the world.

  • Humanitarian & NGO

    Marlink enables humanitarian operations to run smoothly and efficiently in remote locations where conventional communications are unavailable or unreliable.

  • Emergency Response Communications

    With X2nSat, their clients get the robust emergency services of a large telecommunications company, with the personalized customer care tailored to their unique operational needs.

  • Globalstar Emergency Preparedness

    The Globalstar satellite system operates independent of regional terrestrial infrastructure.

  • Global Data Service

    A high-capacity low-Earth orbit satellite network capable of transferring hundreds of GB’s per month to and from any point on the globe. Kepler’s system is designed to be compatible with a number of existing off-the-shelf, fixed-deployable, maritime antennas, and next-generation flat panel antennas.

  • Iridium CloudConnect

    As the only truly global communications network, Iridium enables remote solutions for unmanned vehicle systems, making work safer and more efficient across land, air, and sea markets. Reliable connectivity with Global Line of SightSM is never out of reach for applications including: Infrastructure & Industrial Inspection; Remote Package Delivery; Disaster Assessment; First Response; Remote Sensing; […]

  • Emergency, Response, Disaster Recovery

    Our product portfolio, branded iDirect and Newtec, integrates a wide variety of hardware, software and services seamlessly into a complete satellite communications solution. The product portfolio combines innovative technology and intelligent routing of IP data to support all clients’ networking requirements.

  • Crop Insurance & Satellite-Based Solutions For Farmers’

    Satellite monitoring is an effective tool capable of observing the state of crops. It can be used by the agricultural insurance companies to a great advantage.

  • COMET-LiCS

    The initial focus is on the Alpine-Himalayan tectonic belt, but we are working on processing the complete archive for tectonic and volcanic areas globally. Satellite-based Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) measurements have the potential to make a unique contribution to volcano monitoring. We can use the change in phase between radar images acquired on different […]

  • Crop Monitor

    Open, timely, and science-driven information on crop conditions in support of market transparency and early warning of production shortfalls.

  • Establishing an operational waterhole monitoring system using satellite data and hydrologic modelling: Application in the pastoral regions of East Africa

    A multi-source water balance modelling approach driven by satellite data was used to operationally monitor daily water level fluctuations across the pastoral regions of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia.

  • eHA data portal

    Over the years, eHealth Africa has collected and cataloged a wide variety of geospatial data and other data sets in the countries and regions they’ve worked in.

  • Syria IDP Sites

    This dataset contains open source derived data about the geographic locations (point geometry) of identified tent camps and other locations, such as collective centers, schools, mosques, sports facilities, host families, etc. in towns inside Syria where displacement has taken place.

  • Disease Prevention Maps

    Facebook Disease Prevention Maps are designed to help public health organizations close gaps in understanding where people live, how people are moving, and the state of their cellular connectivity, in order to improve the effectiveness of health campaigns and epidemic response. These datasets, when combined with epidemiological information from health systems, assist nonprofits in reaching […]

  • Population Density Maps

    Population Density Maps help nonprofit and multilateral agencies plan vaccination campaigns, respond to natural disasters, and evaluate rural electrification plans. These maps help researchers assess the ways in which climate change and urbanization impact where people live.

  • Yemen Independent Monitoring, Evaluation and Data Analysis (IMEDA)

    To improve the effectiveness and targeting of humanitarian delivery in Yemen through the provision of independent oversight. The UK delivers humanitarian support on a large scale in Yemen, but due to the conflict, it has no staff in the country. This programme will check that programmes are delivering the intended benefits and help ensure that […]

  • International Charter Space and Major Disasters

    The Charter is a worldwide collaboration, through which satellite data are made available for the benefit of disaster management. By combining Earth observation assets from different space agencies, the Charter allows resources and expertise to be coordinated for rapid response to major disaster situations; thereby helping civil protection authorities and the international humanitarian community. This […]

  • Poverty Estimation with Satellite Imagery at Neighborhood Levels

    The study finds that it is possible to make meaningful welfare estimates based on satellite imagery combined with geo-spatial boosting at the neighborhood-level when lower levels of precision are acceptable.

  • Stanford researchers measure African farm yields using high-resolution satellites

    Stanford researchers have developed a new way to estimate crop yields from space, using high-resolution photos snapped by a new wave of compact satellites.

  • Brazilian Earth Observation Data Cube using AWS for Land Use and Cover Change

    This project aims to create novel data sets, methods and techniques to advance the LUCC detection in Brazil, mainly supporting the INPE monitoring programs PRODES, DETER and TerraClass.

  • Capacity Building on Monitoring of SDGs

    In order for effective monitoring of SDGs targets, a training programme has been organized by the Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute using open source spatial data available on Amazon Web Service Cloud Credit.

  • Integrating Earth Observation Data with Censuses and Sample Surveys to Estimate Development Indicators for India

    A system for India which makes use of statistical and machine learning techniques to integrate data from earth observation, census and sample surveys to generate land-cover maps, population distribution maps and development indicator datasets at sufficient spatial and temporal resolution.

  • Global Mobile Tsunami Warning System using Amazon Web Sever—A Life-Saving Platform

    The goal is to develop a mobile tsunami warning system based on JPL’s mobile Global Real-time Earthquake and Tsunami Alert (GreatAlert) prototype system and to release it as an open-source platform.

  • Deep Learning for Satellite Monitoring of Illegal Amber Mining in Ukraine

    The purpose of the project is to provide free access to up-to-date and reliable information on the magnitude and consequences of illegal amber extraction in Zhytomyr, Rivne and Volyn regions of Ukraine through the development and pilot implementation of an open system of remote monitoring of amber extraction.

  • Argentina government project

    The Ministry of Agroindustry in Argentina relied on both EO and the capacity of the GEOGLAM network to produce a precise and robust mapping of areas impacted by a major drought in 2018.

  • Uganda government project

    In 2017 the Office of the Prime Minister of Uganda used GEOGLAM satellite data to detect and forecast drought and initiate a proactive risk reduction and response plan three months earlier than they previously had.

  • Of Mosquitoes and Models: Tracking Disease by Satellite

    Using satellite data, NASA researchers observed the wetter-than-usual conditions and shared their insights about a potential outbreak with colleagues in international health organizations and African governments. While there is no current vaccine for humans, there is a vaccine for livestock. In response to the alert, Kenyan officials undertook a mass vaccination program for domestic livestock.

  • Cholera Prediction Modeling System

    As ever-more advanced satellites have been launched, disease researchers have acquired better tools to observe the temperature, precipitation, and vegetation conditions that are linked with certain diseases. Scientists have incorporated these data into models that assess the likelihood of disease outbreaks. By anticipating when and where conditions for these diseases might become favorable, researchers can […]

  • DigitalGlobe Launches Crowdsourcing Campaign to Find Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet in Satellite Images

    DigitalGlobe today activated its crowdsourcing platform in an effort to locate the Boeing 777 jetliner that mysteriously disappeared on Saturday while in flight from Malaysia to Beijing.

  • When Mapping Saves Lives: Supporting the Ebola Response in DRC

    Maxar’s DigitalGlobe is committed to supporting the brave efforts of the partners in the field, in hopes that putting those Congolese families on the map will help them receive the vaccines and medical care they deserve.

  • Human Landscape data and Ecopia Building Footprints

    Utilizing Human Landscape data and Ecopia Building Footprints powered by Maxar, the analysts identify specific neighborhoods in Algiers that are more likely to be disengaged from politics and the economy—where government should prioritize community revitalization efforts and improve engagement, outreach and messaging.

  • Ag|knowledge 4.0

    Ag|Knowledge 4.0 is a novel concept of an online platform providing the required integrated analytical services and indicators for agricultural risk monitoring.

  • Crop Mycotoxin Management

    Disease risk maps showing the in-field risk zones of the most important wheat diseases during the vegetation period.

  • EOLO

    EOLO is a service to support agronomists and corn growers in their daily decisions about irrigation and phytosanitary treatments, with the goal to save costs related to water, energy costs and treatments.

  • Humanitarian Assistance And Disaster Recovery

    Flexible, reliable, and quickly deployable communications solutions specially designed to support the rapid response and recovery of a community.

  • Newtec Dialog platform

    Newtec Dialog® is a scalable and flexible multiservice satellite communications platform that allows service providers to access a wide range of markets, manage operational and capital costs effectively and create unique value for customers. Dialog provides the scalability and flexibility required to run successful, very efficient satellite networks and allows satellite service providers to build […]

  • InsSAT

    The main objective of the InsSAT service was to offer a fully functional and operational system of automatic processing and analysis of satellite, meteorological and if necessary also aerial data, focused on providing tools for assessment and settlement of insurance claims in the agricultural sector.

  • Track & Trust

    Track & Trust is a modular system suitable for many supply chain use cases including the humanitarian sector. Humanitarian aid organizations can use Track & Trust for development and disaster relief. Logistic companies can use it for supply chain services.

  • Space Assets For Enhanced DEMining (SAFEDEM)

    SAFEDEM aims at providing a service platform addressing the needs of the Mine Action community to improve and optimize planning and preparation, and to reduce the impact of demining activities.

  • Satellite Supported Financial Inclusion for Smallholders (SSFIS)

    This project addresses the non-functioning market for capital allocation to smallholders.

  • Sen2-Agri

    Sen2-Agri aims to provide the international user community with validated earth observation (EO) algorithms and best practices for agricultural monitoring.

  • Tracking the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts from space.

    Earth observation (EO) via satellite remote sensing can fill these data gaps and provide a wealth of information ranging from short-term environmental risks to long-term changes.

  • Remote sensing can provide valuable insights into the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts.

    Remote sensing using satellite imagery is one of the tools that is increasingly used to monitor how armed conflicts interact with the environment.

  • Yemen’s agriculture in distress

    This project uses open-source datasets to show the agricultural areas in distress and investigate to what extent the conflict has been responsible for the deterioration.

  • Vietnam Data Cube (VDC)

    VNSC has developed and operated the Vietnam Data Cube (VDC), a country scale system of ODC which focus on the SAR data since the fact that Vietnam are expecting its own SAR satellite in next few years. The VDC is currently collecting satellite data: Landsat, Sentinel-1 & -2, ALOS-2 from the USGS, ESA, and JAXA […]

  • Recover Observatory Haiti

    The National Centre for geo-spatial information has agreed to be the champion for the RO within the Haiti government, ensuring both delivery of the RO infrastructure in Haiti and serving as a catalyst for capacity building and EO use for disaster recovery within Haiti.

  • Global Flood Database

    The free Global Flood Database offers a comprehensive view of flood exposure around the world. This database combines 15 years of data on 913 floods with human settlement maps across 169 countries to help scientists, governments, and financial institutions better prepare and protect against the risks of flooding.

  • Coastal Change from Space

    ARGANS Ltd, a world leader in coastal change monitoring, is developing a global service for monitoring coastal erosion, environmental risk assessment, and research on the potential impact of climate change on the coast, including sea level rise and effect of increasingly dynamic weather systems.

  • Enhancing Food Security in African AgriCultural Systems with the support of Remote Sensing (AfriCultuReS)

    To contribute towards an integrated agricultural monitoring and early warning system for Africa, supporting decision making in the field of food security.

  • agriBORA

    agriBORA is an integrated SaaS platform focused on utilizing location-based insights to de-risk smallholder agriculture systems through the use of data-driven services and digital tools.

  • Cameroon: Witness Testimony and Satellite Images Reveal Scale of Devastation in Anglophone Regions

    New research by Amnesty International has revealed the devastating scale of destruction caused by the ongoing conflict in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions.

  • Satellite images show Ethiopia dam reservoir swelling

    New satellite imagery shows the reservoir behind Ethiopia’s disputed hydroelectric dam beginning to fill, but an analyst says it’s likely due to seasonal rains instead of government action.

  • CHIKRisk

    The model incorporates air temperature and rainfall data from NOAA models; land surface temperatures from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments; humidity and soil moisture data from NASA’s Global Land Data Assimilation System; human population density data from NASA’s Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center; and chikungunya vector distributions from the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit’s […]

  • Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Global Flood Risk Monitoring (GFRM) Community Activity

    It supports and integrates efforts that leverage Earth observations to improve the ability to assess flood risk on global scale and translate risk information to impacts at regional, national and sub-national levels by supporting risk-informed decision-making.

  • Using the NASA Polar Orbiting Fire Product Record to Enhance and Expand the Global Wildfire Information System

    This project has developed a new module within the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) to provide global to sub-national science-quality information on fire seasonality, fire size, and annual rankings of fire activity, in easily accessible formats.

  • Development of a Harmonized Multi-Sensor Global Active Fire Data Set

    This project augments the existing Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) with the addition of a near-global, multi-platform, harmonized geostationary fire data set that has undergone comprehensive data validation and quality assessment.

  • Development and Implementation of Remote Sensing Techniques for Oil Spill Monitoring and Storm Damage Assessment in an Operational Context

    Development and Implementation of Remote Sensing Techniques for Oil Spill Monitoring and Storm Damage Assessment in an Operational Context.

  • Health and Air Quality Applications Program

    NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applications Program, which sponsors an array of disease-tracking efforts, currently has the highest number of projects and partnerships in its 20-year history.

  • Advancing Access to Global Flood Modeling and Alerting using the PDC DisasterAWARE® Platform and Remote Sensing Technologies

    They seek to rapidly classify flood severity by incorporating flood model outputs and remote-sensing-derived products from multiple platforms to help with flood risk mitigation, increase the resilience of impacted communities, and disseminate alerts.

  • Coupled Interactive Forecasting of Weather, Fire Behavior, and Smoke Impact for Improved Wildland Fire Decision-Making

    Coupled Interactive Forecasting of Weather, Fire Behavior, and Smoke Impact for Improved Wildland Fire Decision-Making.

  • Day-Night Monitoring of Volcanic Sulfur Dioxide and Ash for Aviation Avoidance at Northern Polar Latitudes

    Day-Night monitoring of volcanic sulfur dioxide and ash for aviation avoidance at northern polar latitudes.

  • Enabling Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction and Response Throughout the Disaster Life Cycle with a Multi-scale Toolbox

    Enabling Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction and Response Throughout the Disaster Lifecycle with Multi-Scale Toolbox.

  • Enhancements to the Global Wildfire Fire Information System: Fire Danger Rating and Applications in Indonesia

    Enhancements to the Global Wildfire Fire Information System: Fire Danger Rating and Applications in Indonesia.

  • Global Rapid Damage Mapping System with Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data

    The project developed a novel technique to implement the multi-temporal InSAR coherence analysis.

  • Hailstorm Risk Assessment Using Spaceborne Remote Sensing Observations and Reanalysis Data

    Hailstorm Risk Assessment Using Spaceborne Remote Sensing Observations and Reanalysis Data. ARL Advancement Current ARL 7, advancement to ARL 8 in early 2021. Goal ARL 9.

  • Integrating Global Remote Sensing and Modeling Systems for Local Flood Prediction and Impact Assessment

    Increased efficiency of disaster responses are anticipated due to rapid detection, localization, mapping, and flood magnitude assessment.

  • Integrating Synthetic Aperture Radar Data for Improved Resilience and Response to Weather-Related Disasters

    Integrating Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data for Improved Resilience and Response to Weather-Related Disasters. ARL Advancement Current ARL 5, advanced one ARL in 2020.

  • A Unique View of the Abandoned Light Water Reactor Site at Kumho-ri

    April 21, 2021 Maxar Technologies image provides a unique look at the abandoned Kumho-ri Light Water Reactor (LWR) Site on North Korea’s northeast coast.

  • EO4SD- Assessing investment efforts (on roads and other infrastructure) for local communities in Burkina Faso

    The project evaluated the completion of transportation infrastructure (gravel roads mainly), as well as other small infrastructure projects (wells, boulis, defense walls etc.) that will help to reduce isolation and improve conditions of the remote communities in Burkina Faso.

  • EO4SD- Building damage assessment and evolution in the context of armed conflict in English-speaking Cameroon

    The aim of the project was assessing the evolutions of structural assets in Cameroon over time, so as to evaluate the impact of the recent straining of relations between the region and the rest of the country.

  • EO4SD – How Venezuelan migration is changing urban expansion in Cucuta, Colombia

    Using satellite imagery to illustrate the densification beyond Cucuta’s urban perimeter, in the contest of the Venezuelan crisis.

  • EO4SD – Iraq Water Resources assessment

    The UN Department of Political and Peace Building Affairs investigated new methodologies and techniques to understand the link between conflict and water availability in the fragile context.

  • EO4SD – Monitoring IUU fishing activities

    This product contains spatially explicit information on land subsidence areas and affected infrastructure.

  • EO4SD- Monitoring reconstruction efforts in Mosul

    In a context with limitations in terms of ground-based supervision, the World Bank looked for alternative methods and an assessment of the evolution of the urban fabric in Mosul, Iraq, after the conflict.

  • EO4SD – Desert Locust impact assessment

    The objective of the study was to evaluate the use of a time series technique that, when used with robust field training data, could be used to help identify agricultural fields showing anomalous vegetation signatures for targeted locust response and mitigation efforts.

  • EO4SD – Road network vulnerability in Congo

    This service allowed the World Bank Group to monitor the degradation of road condition over time in the DRC.

  • Free

    The project is planning to provide services related, but not limited, to environmental security issues for specific World Bank projects in Colombia, such as pollution and contaminated sites assessment.

  • EO4SD – Justice, Law and Early Detection of Onset of Crises

    The project is investigating the possibility of detecting and monitoring in-region population displacement in Iraq and Lake Chad.

  • EO4SD – Natural Resource Management

    The project aims to monitor key natural resources in Lake Chad, through services such as detection of extraction of illegal resource and assessment of natural resources.

  • EO4SD – Reconstruction and Development of Infrastructure

    The project is planning to provide damage characterization and reconstruction planning support among other services in Iraq for specific World Bank projects.

  • Improved Agricultural Monitoring Systems through Satellite Imagery for Iran

    Establish an operational Agriculture Monitoring System based on sustainable methods, tools and technology, that improves the quality of agriculture information and reporting based on the integral use of geospatial technology.

  • WaPOR

    Using WaPOR it is possible to detect signals of vegetation stress linked to weather patterns, allowing farmers, government agencies and the international community to prepare for changes in agricultural output and to implement mitigation measures.

  • Harvesting Farmer Network

    Harvesting provides an Agri-Lending suite which enables financial service providers to use their own historical data alongside alternative inputs such as satellite data, and thus make the lending life cycle more efficient. Harvesting’s goal is to help drive financial inclusion by providing actionable data to financial institutions to enable provision of loans.

  • Prodes

    Geospatial imagery via satellites, combined with machine learning makes an ideal solution. It provides a non-invasive means of identifying illegal deforestation in small areas and alerting authorities to it, so they can carefully direct their limited resources.

  • A New System for Surveillance and Digital Contact Tracing for COVID-19: Spatiotemporal Reporting Over Network and GPS

    A mini-program within the app WeChat that analyzes GPS data from all users and traces close contacts of all patients. This permits early tracing and quarantine of potential sources of infection. Data from the mini-program can also be merged with other data to predict epidemic trends, calculate individual and population risks, and provide recommendations for […]

  • xView

    Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) are releasing a new satellite imagery dataset to advance key frontiers in computer vision and develop new solutions for national security and disaster response.

  • Geospatial AI for water quality monitoring

    Rezatec’s Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution for managing water quality provides a scalable, decision support tool for estimating diffuse pollution loads based on contemporary earth observation data and hydrological modelling.

  • Exploring satellite data for sustainable development

    In Mali and Nigeria satellite imagery was used as a tool to monitor UNDP rebuilding efforts.

  • CropWatch Cloud

    CropWatch Cloud is a cloud-based crop monitoring platform providing an agroclimatic, agronomic information service, with a unique solution for developing countries aspiring to conduct their own crop monitoring, in order to achieve food security.

  • Forecasting Agricultural output using Space, Agro-meteorology and Land based observations (FASAL)

    In India, the Ministry of Agriculture developed Forecasting Agricultural Output using Space Agro- meteorology and Land-based Observations (FASAL).

  • DisasterWatch

    SUPARCO developed the DisasterWatch Web Portal for near real time dissemination of space-based information to NDMA/PDMAs in the event of natural disasters.

  • EO4SD – Inundation Monitoring Service in the Philippines

    The Inundation Monitoring Service provides satellite-based, highly automated, open water surface identification tools that detect both seasonal fluctuations of water bodies and long-term changes. The service maps provide the extent of flooded areas over time, which can help build a picture of the flood response of an area.

  • EO4SD – Support to Lake Victoria Basin projects

    Products developed by the cluster include the historic evolution of hyacinth and lake surface temperature, along with the evolution of lake shoreline erosion.

  • EO4SD – African Risk Capacity’s Africa RiskView (ARV)

    Currently, the tool focuses on drought, but there is ongoing work to include other risks, including river flooding and tropical cyclones.

  • EO4SD – Monrovia Integrated Development Project

    To support the World Bank and its stakeholders, The EO4SD climate cluster has provided several products including modelling sea level rise and its impacts on coastal population (coastal and inland flooding) and coastal shoreline erosion based on historical evidence.

  • EO4SD – Burned area detection to assess wildfire risk

    EO products may help underpin a more evidence-based approach to proactively manage wildfire risk to Changde by considering where wildfire management interventions could be most effective.

  • EO4SD – Drought trends and monitoring

    EO data can provide continuous datasets that can be used to detect the onset of drought as well as its duration and magnitude. This can be used to both monitor the drought over time and issue early warnings.

  • EO4SD – Ensuring safe and climate-resilient water supply and wastewater management system

    EO data can be used to assess and monitor the hydrologic and socio-economic implications of changes in extreme precipitation and inform decision makers about changes that may need to be made to sanitation infrastructure in order to cope.

  • EO4SD – Improving availability and accuracy of flood early warning systems

    EO data can be integrated into Water Resources Information Systems to enable them to produce near real-time information on flood risk, and can take account for a whole catchment area.

  • Tailings Insight

    Inmarsat offers the most flexible and reliable satellite Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity platform to ensure your remote communications needs are met. They help support digital aspirations by delivering the benefits of IoT through their two-way data connectivity services such as IsatData Pro (IDP) and BGAN M2M, through edge connectivity, innovative data platforms and leasing. […]

  • EO4SD – Managing flood impacts from extreme weather events

    Flood maps can support a more sustainable approach to managing flood risk by considering where natural flood management could be most effective and enable better planning decisions to avoid unnecessary development in flood risk areas.

  • EO4SD – Managing impacts from coastal flooding and sea level rise

    Sea-level rise models and maps provide the fundamental data and tools at-risk communities need to make planning decisions.

  • EO4SD – Nature-based flood protection solutions

    EO data can help map and model the best locations for rehabilitating and constructing nature-based solutions, as well as monitoring and evaluating the impact of them on catchment hydrology and river baseflow.

  • After Liberation Came Destruction: Iraqi Militias and the Aftermath of Amerli

    Through satellite imagery analysis Human Rights Watch confirmed building destruction in 30 out of 35 villages examined in a 500 kilometer square area around Amerli.

  • EO4SD- Agricultural development support

    The EO4SD project is delivering products and services in support of two development projects in the central dry zone i.e. the Agricultural Development Support Project (ADSP) funded by World Bank and the Irrigated Agriculture Inclusive Development Project (IAIDP) funded by Asian Development Bank. The overall aim in both projects is to improve stakeholders’ capacity to […]

  • CleanSeaNet

    Between April 2007 and January 2011, 72 authorised users in 24 coastal states have used EO data provided by the CleanSeaNet initiative of European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) for sea pollution operations. CleanSeaNet is a European satellite-based oil spill and vessel detection service which offers assistance to participating States for the following activities: – Identifying […]

  • EO4SD – Disaster Risk Reduction

    This initiative has used space technology by providing monitoring services for the rehabilitation and reconstruction phases in Central Sulawesi (Indonesia) one year after its 2018 earthquake, in support to the Emergency Assistance for Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Project (EARR) and Enhance Water Security Investment Project (EWSIP).

  • EO4SD – Assessing the Impact of Refugee Flows in Urban regions of Niger

    The objective of this collaboration was to assess the impact of the refugee flow in the context of the Boko Haram crisis in Niger, through the built environment.