Rapid Mapping News Today

EU space technology is increasingly becoming an essential cog in the machinery that manages responses to emergencies like floods and fires — from providing information to firefighters to alerting citizens of danger.

SUPPORT from the international community continue to offset the effects of Typhoon “Odette” (international name: Rai) almost two weeks after its onslaught. Taiwan, for its part, has sent two shipments of relief goods totaling 10 metric tons worth $50,000, which were airlifted to the Philippines from Pingtung Air Force Base…

(File photo from Presidential Photographers Division) MANILA - At least US$107.2 million or approximately PHP5.35 billion is needed to help about 530,000 Filipinos in the worst typhoon-hit areas in Caraga and Eastern Visayas for the next six months, the United Nations Philippines said Friday. The number, drawn from the UN's newly launched Humanitarian Needs and Priorities Plan, is based on preliminary assessment findings and early estimates of people in need in the aftermath of the catastrop...

The United Nations Satellite Center (UNOSAT) has released satellite images of the Siargao Island in Surigao Del Norte a few days before a few days after Typhoon Odette struck — transforming the island once beloved as a surfing destination to a Christmas time destruction. Preliminary images taken by UNOSAT's Rapid Mapping Service…