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When the rain stops, the water is still on its way

Guide

Oct 19, 20266 min read

When the rain stops, the water is still on its way

The end of the rain upstream is not the end of the water downstream. Why rivers can rise after the s…

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GuideOct 19, 2026

When the rain stops, the water is still on its way

The end of the rain upstream is not the end of the water downstream. Why rivers can rise after the sky clears, how the tide slows the last part of the journey, and what to watch instead.

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How a flood forecast earns the right to be shown

Methodology

Oct 12, 20267 min read

How a flood forecast earns the right to be shown

A forecast can be made long before it deserves to be shown. How a hindcast tests it against the past, the two ways a warning can be wrong, and why a forecast that fails stays off the page.

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Guide

Oct 8, 20264 min read

Water on a map is not a flood warning

A map that shows water and an announcement that tells you what to do are different things. In Thailand's rainy season, here is why the difference matters and who issues the warnings.

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Data Story

Sep 28, 20265 min read

Two El Niño numbers, one season

In April–June 2026 one index put El Niño at 0.95 and another at 0.49 — either side of the 0.5 line. Both were right. The gap is what a warming ocean does to the question "is it El Niño?".

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Methodology

Sep 21, 20266 min read

A province is not a place

A provincial score is an average over land that can hold a reservoir and a rain shadow at once. The number is usually right and can still be useless for one field — and a finer grid is not automatically the fix.

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A drought index is not a reservoir gauge

Methodology

Sep 14, 20266 min read

A drought index is not a reservoir gauge

SPEI tells you how unusual the weather has been. It does not tell you what is left in the reservoir. The two disagree in both directions, and the expensive direction is the one where the index reads normal.

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This month the dry provinces are on the coast, not in Isan

Drought

Sep 7, 20265 min read

This month the dry provinces are on the coast, not in Isan

In the drought layer GlobMaps is serving today, the driest province in Thailand is Phangnga, followed by Phuket and Prachuap Khiri Khan. All three are coastal. Isan, the region the word drought usually points at, has none. In Malaysia the six states running wetter than normal are all on the Peninsula, while Sarawak and Labuan are the dry ones.

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Malaysia's climate disclosure clock started before the document did

Regulation

Aug 31, 20267 min read

Malaysia's climate disclosure clock started before the document did

BNM/RH/PD 028-124, issued 17 March 2025, supersedes the 2022 policy document and phases climate disclosure in by group: 1 January 2025, 2026 and 2027. The Group 1 date is earlier than the issuance date. Read from BNM's own document, with the assurance dates flagged as still under consultation.

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Your drought map is a model output, not a measurement

Methodology

Aug 24, 20267 min read

Your drought map is a model output, not a measurement

Every drought map you have ever seen was produced by a model. That is not a scandal — for most of Southeast Asia there is no alternative. But the map does not say so, and the standardised index behind it hides the provenance rather than showing it. Here is what that costs, and the one rule we hold ourselves to because of it.

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ENSO is Neutral. A third of the map is not.

Data Story

Aug 17, 20266 min read

ENSO is Neutral. A third of the map is not.

RONI for April–June 2026 reads +0.47 — below the +0.50 threshold, so the cycle is classified Neutral. Underneath that label, 51.1% of Vietnam’s grid cells and 39.0% of Malaysia’s sit past the SPEI-3 −0.5 line. Why one ocean index cannot carry a risk book.

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The 2018–19 comparison is the wrong comfort

Data Story

Aug 10, 20266 min read

The 2018–19 comparison is the wrong comfort

By the headline ocean index, 2018–19 was the stronger El Niño — and Thailand’s three-month water balance stayed positive through it. In May 2026 it reads −0.376, with Vietnam and Malaysia negative too, while the official index sits at Neutral.

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Malaysia's palm belt and the dry third of the map

Data Story

Aug 3, 20265 min read

Malaysia's palm belt and the dry third of the map

Malaysia's national SPEI-3 reads −0.327 in the May 2026 update while 39.0% of grid cells sit past the drought threshold — and the hot zone, Negeri Sembilan and Selangor at MDI 0.500, lands on the peninsula's core planting belt.

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Vietnam's Central Highlands: coffee, cassava, and a measurable drought signal

Data Story

Jul 27, 20265 min read

Vietnam's Central Highlands: coffee, cassava, and a measurable drought signal

Kon Tum and Gia Lai both read below the MDI drought threshold in the May 2026 update — no drought class at all — while 51.1% of Vietnam's grid cells sit past the SPEI-3 threshold. Two indices, one province, different answers.

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Drought in Thailand's Northeast: What the latest climate data shows

Data Story

Jul 20, 20265 min read

Drought in Thailand's Northeast: What the latest climate data shows

An analysis of drought conditions in Thailand's Northeast (Isan) using GlobMaps MDI data — including province-level MDI values, ENSO outlook for Q3 2026, and what this means for agriculture.

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The Flood Beneath the Map: Why Southeast Asia's Risk Is Global Risk

Data Story

Jul 16, 20266 min read

The Flood Beneath the Map: Why Southeast Asia's Risk Is Global Risk

1.81 billion people — 23% of the world's population — are directly exposed to 1-in-100-year floods across 188 countries. South and Southeast Asia hold the world's largest regional concentration. What the global research tells us about where the data gap sits, and why province-level granularity is the critical missing piece.

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Super El Niño is a forecast. The heat and the reservoirs are already facts.

Data Story

Jul 13, 20266 min read

Super El Niño is a forecast. The heat and the reservoirs are already facts.

A super El Niño is on watch for late 2026 — but Southeast Asia's heat and water stress are measurable now. What the July 2026 forecasts say, what the reservoirs and thermometers already show, and why a regional outlook is never a local plan.

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What 25 Years of ERA5 Data Reveals About Drought Risk in Southeast Asia

Research

Jun 29, 202618 min read

What 25 Years of ERA5 Data Reveals About Drought Risk in Southeast Asia

Our open-access preprint analyzes 25 years of ERA5, MODIS, and ALEXI data across 156 Southeast Asian provinces and finds that 89% show no monotonic drought trend. ENSO variability — not a warming trajectory — is the dominant driver, with the 2023/24 El Niño delivering the worst drought signal in the satellite record.

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The Monsoon Rebound: Why Drought-to-Flood Transitions Are Southeast Asia's Hardest Risk to Price

Climate Risk

Jun 22, 20269 min read

The Monsoon Rebound: Why Drought-to-Flood Transitions Are Southeast Asia's Hardest Risk to Price

The 2023/24 El Niño delivered the most severe drought signal recorded across Southeast Asia in 25 years. Now, as monsoon season peaks and ENSO transitions, the same provinces face a different but equally dangerous threat — and most risk models are not built to price the shift.

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TCFD Is Gone. IFRS S2 Is Here. What Southeast Asian Companies Must Disclose Now.

ESG & Compliance

Jun 15, 202611 min read

TCFD Is Gone. IFRS S2 Is Here. What Southeast Asian Companies Must Disclose Now.

The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures officially disbanded in October 2023. Its successor, IFRS S2, is stricter, more data-driven, and already mandatory in Malaysia. Here is what Southeast Asian companies need to know—and the one climate risk they are almost certainly underreporting.

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Inside the Index: How GlobMaps Quantifies Drought Risk Across Southeast Asia

Product

Jun 8, 202614 min read

Inside the Index: How GlobMaps Quantifies Drought Risk Across Southeast Asia

A deep-dive into the Multi-Dimensional Index (MDI) powering GlobMaps drought intelligence across Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia — from raw ERA5 climate data to province-level risk scores available via API.

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AI-Powered Disaster Response: Real-Time Relief Coordination at Scale

Product

Apr 27, 202616 min read

AI-Powered Disaster Response: Real-Time Relief Coordination at Scale

How AI is revolutionizing disaster response coordination, enabling faster relief delivery and better resource allocation at a planetary scale.

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Breaking New Ground: Satellite Analytics for Insurance Underwriting

Case Study

Apr 20, 202618 min read

Breaking New Ground: Satellite Analytics for Insurance Underwriting

How leading insurers are leveraging multi-sensor satellite fusion and AI to assess risk and automate claims with unprecedented accuracy.

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Spatial AI for Urban Planning: Building Smarter Cities

Guide

Apr 13, 202615 min read

Spatial AI for Urban Planning: Building Smarter Cities

Exploring how Spatial AI and Digital Twins are transforming urban planning, from predictive maintenance to generative 15-minute city designs.

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Resilient Portfolios: Integrating Climate Intelligence into Modern Investment

Case Study

Apr 6, 202620 min read

Resilient Portfolios: Integrating Climate Intelligence into Modern Investment

Beyond disclosure: How global asset managers are leveraging ISSB standards and geospatial AI to quantify physical risks and capture transition alpha.

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Predictive Hydrology: The Future of Real-Time Flood Monitoring

Product

Mar 30, 202614 min read

Predictive Hydrology: The Future of Real-Time Flood Monitoring

How the convergence of SAR satellites, Satellite IoT, and Digital Twins is creating a global early warning system to protect lives and infrastructure.

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The Anti-Fragile Supply Chain: Orchestrating Resilience with Geospatial Intelligence

Guide

Mar 23, 202617 min read

The Anti-Fragile Supply Chain: Orchestrating Resilience with Geospatial Intelligence

Beyond visibility: How leading organizations are using Multi-Tier mapping and Agentic AI to anticipate disruptions and build self-healing logistics networks.

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Planetary Intelligence: The Rise of Foundation Models in Geospatial AI

Product

Mar 16, 202619 min read

Planetary Intelligence: The Rise of Foundation Models in Geospatial AI

From Prithvi 2.0 to Spatiotemporal Transformers: How generalized AI models are replacing task-specific algorithms to unlock the true potential of Earth observation.

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Predictive Harvest: AI-Driven Agriculture for Global Food Security

Industry

Mar 9, 202616 min read

Predictive Harvest: AI-Driven Agriculture for Global Food Security

From Agricultural Foundation Models to Satellite IoT: How spatial intelligence is increasing yields by 25% and building climate-resilient food systems.

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The Founding Story: Bridging the Gap Between Raw Data and Planetary Intelligence

Product

Mar 2, 202612 min read

The Founding Story: Bridging the Gap Between Raw Data and Planetary Intelligence

Why we built GlobMaps: A journey from data overload to actionable risk intelligence, and our mission to democratize access to planetary signals.

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Next-Gen Wildfire Tracking: Technology Protecting Forests

Product

Feb 16, 202615 min read

Next-Gen Wildfire Tracking: Technology Protecting Forests

How AI-driven satellite monitoring, thermal anomaly detection, and predictive fire behavior modeling are transforming wildfire management from reactive crisis response to proactive forest protection.

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Advanced Outbreak Forecasting: The Future of Global Health Security

Product

Feb 10, 202620 min read

Advanced Outbreak Forecasting: The Future of Global Health Security

How GlobMaps integrates spatial epidemiology, climate-driven disease modeling, and real-time syndromic surveillance to predict and prevent infectious disease outbreaks before they escalate into global health emergencies.

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Introducing GeoLLM: The Future of Conversational Geospatial AI

Product

Feb 9, 202610 min read

Introducing GeoLLM: The Future of Conversational Geospatial AI

GeoLLM transforms complex geospatial analysis into natural conversationsdemocratizing access to planetary intelligence through a simple chat interface powered by specialized large language models.

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Precision Risk Assessment: Navigating the Financial Impact of Climate Change

Case Study

Feb 5, 202622 min read

Precision Risk Assessment: Navigating the Financial Impact of Climate Change

How high-resolution LiDAR elevation models, real-time hazard mapping, and asset-level climate risk scoring are transforming insurance underwriting, investment due diligence, and infrastructure resilience planning.

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Foundations of Geo-Intelligence: Navigating the Future of Spatial AI

Guide

Feb 2, 202618 min read

Foundations of Geo-Intelligence: Navigating the Future of Spatial AI

A comprehensive guide to geospatial AI fundamentalsfrom Earth observation satellites to Foundation Modelsand how they are transforming decision-making across industries.

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