Surf and Turf: Studying Land to Help Protect Reefs
As farmland increases in Belize, more and more sediment and agricultural runoff is making its way into the country's rivers and eventually into the sea — where it reaches the Belize Barrier Reef.
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As farmland increases in Belize, more and more sediment and agricultural runoff is making its way into the country's rivers and eventually into the sea — where it reaches the Belize Barrier Reef.
On August 3, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and former U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison visited the joint campus of the Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Palmira, Colombia.
This fact sheet provides an overview of SERVIR-Amazonia, which is part of SERVIR Global, a joint development initiative of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
This brochure provides an overview about SERVIR Amazonia.
The Web has changed every aspect of our lives, from daily events to professional undertakings such as work related activities. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – tools that enable us to manipulate the geographic aspects of data – have also been affected by web technology.
|Patrick Kabatha, RCMRD/SERVIR
SERVIR Amazonia, an initiative of USAID and NASA, addresses environmental and development challenges across the Amazon Basin using state-of-the-art geospatial technologies. The
The Forecasting Seasonal to Sub-seasonal Fire and Agricultural Risk from Drought service provides information for evaluating drought conditions at temporal and spatial resolution to predict fire vulnerability in the Amazon basin.
The Improving Resilience and Reducing Risk of Extreme Hydrological Events service provides stakeholders in the Amazon Basin region with improved historical water information and a flood forecasting ability to support greater resiliency to flood disasters.
The Land Use Land Cover and Change Mapping Service was designed to provide governments with data, tools, and skills to better understand relevant intervention actions related to land conservation and management, ensuring that land resources can be efficiently monitored and regulated.
Susan Malaso Kotikot, a Graduate Research Assistant with SERVIR, has created an interactive publication to describe and explain land cover changes that took place in Namibia between 2000 and 2010.