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INFORM releases the results of its 2017 Global Risk Index
INFORM has released the results of its 2017 Global Risk Index. INFORM is an open-source risk assessment tool designed to support decisions about crisis and disaster prevention, preparedness and response...
Breaking the Link Between Extreme Weather and Extreme Poverty
The impact of extreme weather on poverty is far more devastating than previously understood—outstripping all other estimates by as much as 60%. We can do much more to protect poor people from the shocks of natural disasters, which, as the report shows, cost the global economy $520 billion and force some 26 million people into poverty every year.
14 November 2016 Mw=7.8 New Zealand earthquake shows an uncanny resemblance to the 2015 Nepal shock
In terms of its rupture, the New Zealand earthquake is a ‘deja vu’ experience with the 25 April 2016 Mw=7.8 Nepal earthquake. Both show almost no fault slip at their epicenters, with the seismic waves traveling at about 5,000 mile per hour for about 50-100 km before the fault began to unzip...
Advanced satellite software takes guesswork out of predicting flood risk, yields & forest protection
Seventy years since first space photo, Ecometrica's Earth Observation Labs provides near-real time information using ESA satellite data...
Changes to New York flood maps are a reflection of technology advancing
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has agreed to revise flood maps in New York City after an independent analysis – another sign that technology around flood risk is improving...
New 3D world map: TanDEM-X global elevation model completed
The new three-dimensional map of Earth has been completed. Mountain peaks and valley floors across the globe can now be seen with an accuracy of just one metre...
SLIP-DRIP new software for automatic detection of landslide
The Sudden Landslide Identification Product (SLIP) combs through Earth imagery and analyzes consecutive images of the same location to spot changes in soil moisture, muddiness, and other surface features...
Low-cost IoT-based system developed to forecast floods in developing countries
TOKYO -- A team of researchers at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology has developed a low-cost system to predict river flooding for developing countries, using "internet of things" technology to collect and analyze massive amounts of data from sensors placed along rivers...