Articles & Stories Reducing illegal gold mining in the tropical forests of Ghana and Peru A forthcoming collaboration across the Atlantic At the recent global knowledge exchange of SERVIR staff from SERVIR-Amazonia and SERVIR-West Africa exchanged ideas and experiences on services for illegal mining detection. April 10, 2020
Articles & Stories Youth tackle air pollution using satellite data As Thailand's second largest city, Chiang Mai has been facing the problem of haze pollution over the past decade, due to agricultural practices and rapid industrial growth associated with tourism. April 9, 2020
Articles & Stories Enhancing Forest Monitoring Across the Lower Mekong and South Asia Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Applications Forests cover approximately 30 percent of Earth's land surface and play a vital role in the global carbon cycle: forests account for around 72 percent of Earth's terrestrial carbon storage, making vegetation biomass a larger carbon store than the atmosphere. March 12, 2020
Articles & Stories U.S. Government Convenes Innovators in Northern Thailand to Tackle Air Pollution Challenges A team of six youth innovators called ‚“No Grant SMOG” won the first prize at Smogathon Thailand 2020 for inventing active-learning tools to educate elementary school children about smog. February 21, 2020|Wadee Deeprawat, SERVIR-Mekong/ADPC
Articles & Stories Mekong River Commission Utilizes Space Technology to Improve Flood Forecasting Lower Mekong countries suffer from the effects of seasonal flooding and flash flooding caused by monsoon rains and tropical storms. Regional and national level organizations and agencies require a range of information, forecasts, and decision-support tools to better prepare for, monitor, issue warnings, and respond to flood risk. August 8, 2019