SERVIR serves as a resource for imagery and modeling support to partner countries during extreme events, and in building capacity to use GIS and remote sensing for disaster management. We cooperate with international initiatives to harness expedited satellite imagery for hazard identification and impact assessment on behalf of identified customers.
On Saturday, May 5, 2012, a debris-laden flash flood descended down the Seti River Valley into Nepal’s second largest city, Pokhara.
Hosted at RCMRD in Nairobi, Kenya, the SERVIR-East Africa hub serves 18 member states.
The SERVIR Coordination Office and Student Research Lab are based at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, USA, and are supported by the NASA Earth Science Division Applied Sciences Program and USAID Headquarters in Washington, DC.
Based at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Kathmandu, Nepal, SERVIR-Himalaya serves the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region and the following member states:
The first regional SERVIR facility, SERVIR-Mesoamerica, was hosted at the Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC) in Panama from 2005-2011 and served Central America and the Dominican Republic.