Articles & Stories SERVIR Boosts Forecasting Power in South America SERVIR's Dr. Jim Nelson and Jorge Luis Sánchez, both of Brigham Young University (BYU), are helping government agencies in South America develop web tools for meteorology and hydrology forecasts. May 18, 2022
Articles & Stories From Space to Village: Geospatial Technology and Artificial Intelligence Provide Unique Opportunities to Transform Forest Conservation in Cambodia Monitoring forest loss remotely makes it difficult to formulate policies and strategies to address deforestation. Currently, rangers spend long periods of time patrolling forests to monitor forest health and checking for illegal logging and land clearances. May 10, 2021
Articles & Stories Pathways to Re-boost Sustainable Agriculture, Forestry, and Land Use in Southeast Asia The United States Agency for International Development's Regional Development Mission for Asia (USAID/RDMA) recently released "Commodity-Driven Forest Loss: A Study of Southeast Asia," a report exploring trade-offs between agricultural production and forest conservation. April 20, 2021
Articles & Stories Small Satellites, Big Results: SERVIR integrates new high-resolution global datasets to improve environmental monitoring Collecting Earth observations over tropical forests comes with logistical challenges. While protection of these often highly-vulnerable ecosystems is critical to combating climate change, heavy cloud cover and the cost of granular-level data mean that frequent, quality forest cover imagery can be a rare and valuable resource. February 3, 2021
Articles & Stories SERVIR Flood Mapping Service Brings Speed to Cambodia Disaster Management The new Hydrologic Remote Sensing Analysis for Floods (HYDRAFloods) service, co-developed by SERVIR-Mekong consortium members and the SERVIR Science Coordination Office, improves the frequency and resolution of map updates. January 30, 2021