October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
...response by authorities, and that can be demonstrated through the Chinese model for managing Covid-19. Satellites’ role in disaster management, and particularly in containing pandemics and mitigating the risk of spreading, is fundamental Telemedicine...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). This platform promotes the use of space-based disaster management and emergency response technologies. The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (New York, 2015...
October 2015
From NEOs to real action: testing asteroid impact scenarios
...communities of the type of contingency planning arrangements that need to be put in place well in advance of an impact event. Two disaster management exercises took place relatively recently: the first in April 2013 and the second in April 2015. Both...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
... or another by intellectual property law UN SPIDER (Space-based information for disaster management and emergency response) aims to assist people throughout all phases of a disaster with their resources. However, no solution yet tried works perfectly...
November 2021
Space in support of sustainable development
... support SDG 11 by supporting urban planning, creating and maintaining smart cities, monitoring air quality and aiding disaster management, among other things. The discussion group raised a number of areas that could be developed to make cities and...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... 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...
