Rome – A recent report on the first phase of the project ‘Improve agriculture monitoring systems through satellite imagery for the Islamic Republic of Iran’, reveals how the introduction of multi-temporal high-resolution satellite imagery means Iran’s Ministry of Agriculture Jahad (MAJ)...

A new atlas expanding the coverage database of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is providing valuable baseline reference data that will support monitoring of land changes in the future.

The atlas, recently published by the FAO geospatial unit. represents...

The recent availability of new satellite optical and radar Earth Observation missions, coupled with the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) pattern recognition technologies and  integrated in cloud-based platforms such as SEPAL and Google Earth Engine) have completely changed how we...

The Geospatial Unit organized the "Open House Day" to raise awareness and promote geospatial data and technology.

FAO has more than 30 years of experience in the development and use of geospatial data, methods and tools, which are applied...

With the increasing availability of multi-temporal and multi-sensor remote sensing imagery, mapping land features is less and less dependent on the existence of satellite information and more on the ability to access and use this data in a common environment....