Two independent reports on AI in humanitarian action reach the same conclusions from different angles. This piece compares ITU's new early warning report with NASA Lifelines' own GeoAI findings on trust, co-design, and connectivity.
NASA Lifelines joined SYEPG youth partners for a July 13 Supper Club on pairing satellite data with local and indigenous knowledge to build community resilience.
The NASA Lifelines team traveled to Bogotá to host the Ready for Impact Pitch Showcase, where eleven teams presented satellite-data solutions for early warning and disaster response. The trip also marked the unveiling of the second Crisis Readiness Accelerator mural.
NAXA came to the Earth Science Review Board with a question that often sits at the center of climate-informed municipal planning. How do you measure heat and cold stress at the scale a local government actually plans at? NAXA is…
When Nearby Nearby Network came to the ESRB with a challenge of delivering hazard information to rural North Carolina communities before disasters cut off connectivity, a panel of experts identified a stack of NASA and open data products already suited to the task.
At our Bogotá Speed Dating event under the Twilio Crisis Readiness Accelerator, 64 participants from humanitarian, government, and technical organizations convened to form new partnerships backed by flexible pilot grants.
The GeoAI for Humanitarian Action report explores how artificial intelligence and satellite data can strengthen humanitarian decision-making, while identifying the practical barriers that limit adoption. Drawing on community insights, it outlines strategies to build partnerships, tools, and programs that help humanitarian organizations translate GeoAI innovations into real-world impact.
The Data Studios are a different way of organizing geospatial and remote sensing resources. Instead of starting with a dataset and asking people to figure out what to do with it, we start with the real-world questions and work backwards from the use case.
NASA Lifelines Fellows Barira Rashid, Aryanna Khan, and Rufai Balogun represented the program at AGU 2025 in New Orleans, demonstrating how Earth science, GeoAI, and community-centered approaches can strengthen humanitarian decision-making
NASA Lifelines Deputy Director Jeff Pituch participated in the IOM Rapid Response Team Simulation Exercise in Ciolpani, Romania, a weeklong immersive training hosted by the Government of Romania and UN IOM. In this blog, he recounts his experience navigating a simulated humanitarian crisis and reflects on how data and coordination shape real-world emergency response.
