WMO and UNDRR Launch Status Report On Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems ...

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

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

The Department of Surveys, commonly known as Survey of Kenya (SOK), is the official agency of the government of Kenya on all matters affecting land surveys and mapping. It has been in existence since ...

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

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

A static Jupyter Notebook for automatic radar-based flood extent mapping is shown below. The notebook can be accessed on GitHub or directly executed in Binder or Google Colab. Please find below the ...

La intensidad del fuego representa la energía que se libera de la materia orgánica durante el proceso de combustión (Keeley, 2009). También se refiere a la intensidad del fuego mientras está activo.

Space-based Information: Active and passive microwave sensors Using Nimbus 7 SMMR, DMSP SSM/I, TRMM TMI and Aqua AMSR-E.

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

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

El objetivo de este procedimiento paso a paso es la generación de un mapa de severidad para la evaluación de las áreas afectadas por incendios forestales. Se utiliza el índice normalizado de área ...