This Devex article features AF-PULSE, a GeoAI platform used by the UN World Food Programme to track risks to food supply chains across Afghanistan and inform more effective and efficient humanitarian aid delivery.
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.
The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2026 from OCHA assesses data availability across humanitarian crises using the HDX Data Grids framework. The report details what open data exists by location and category, helping practitioners and decision makers identify gaps in the information landscape for crisis response.
Common Space's Seeing What Matters report presents findings from a global survey assessing demand for an openly licensed, community-tasked satellite mission dedicated to capturing data for humanitarian action. The report helps define where, when, and how high-resolution satellite imagery is needed to serve public interests.
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 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 Earthdata GIS releases flood mapping and satellite data products to support analysis of the Washington Atmospheric River floods that occurred early to mid December of 2025. This data provides geospatial insights into precipitation, as well as impacts to communities and infrastructure.
This Supper Club pre-read introduces how GeoAI is being applied to disaster response, damage assessments, and longer- term recovery. Both this document and the accompanying Supper Club discussion are part of the broader Lifelines humanitarian geoAI research initiative, which aims to evaluate the use of GeoAI across the humanitarian lifecycle and to develop guidelines for its responsible application
