SERVIR Applied Sciences Team helping African countries track and protect forests
With a growing population, increased demand for agricultural land and fuel wood are depleting Africa's forests.
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With a growing population, increased demand for agricultural land and fuel wood are depleting Africa's forests.
The Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) in Nairobi and its partner organization, SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa, hosted two-day stakeholders’ and consultations workshops from 23-31 May 2016 in Uganda, Rwanda, and Tanzania, respectively.
Through SERVIR, NASA's Earth Science Division's Applied Sciences Program advances the use of space-based observations to inform policy and decision makers as they adapt to the impacts of global change and plan for a sustainable future.
On July 14, 2016, NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) launched SERVIR-West Africa, a joint project to strengthen environmental monitoring in West Africa.
Charity Beeman, a senior at Troy University majoring in Computer Science, has been working on a unique project this summer as an intern with SERVIR.
Deforestation and habitat fragmentation in the tropics represent major threats to biodiversity and contribute to carbon emissions.
On January 18, 2017, the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Climate Predication and Applications Centre (ICPAC) signed a groundbreaking Memorandum of Understanding.
The Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD)/SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa (E&SA) hosted a week-long Training Workshop on the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) Model and Bias Correction of Satellite Precipitation Data.
Like many rivers across the world, the Nzoia River in western Kenya pushes over its banks each year. In recent years, to protect lives and property in Kenya, SERVIR-Eastern & Southern Africa (E&SA) at the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) has provided high-accuracy flood level scenario maps to the World Bank to guide their flood protection dike repairs in the region.
Monitoring land cover change over time is essential to understanding ecosystem health, biodiversity, forest carbon cycling, and much more. Land cover/land use (LCLU) data and maps are critical components for climate monitoring applications such as Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions reports.