Maxar releases open data response to the Mauritius oil spill
As part of its Open Data Program, Maxar is supporting the humanitarian community and response efforts by providing open access satellite imagery of the affected areas.
disaster management
Copernicus Emergency Management Service is monitoring Uganda flooding
Copernicus EMS has been requested to produce delineation mapping at regular intervals (September, December, March, April, July) since September 2019 and produce a rapid analysis of the current situation concerning floods and flood traces over the EMSR438 areas of interest.
Extension to OGC moving features standard enables JSON encoding
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has approved the Moving Features Encoding Extension – JSON for adoption as an official OGC Standard. It defines how to encode and share the movements of geographic features by using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).