Mapping and Monitoring Mangroves using Google Earth Engine
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This workshop is the third in a series offered by SERVIR Amazonia focused on using remote sensing to monitor mangroves in Guyana.
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This workshop is the third in a series offered by SERVIR Amazonia focused on using remote sensing to monitor mangroves in Guyana.
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SERVIR West Africa promotes the use of publicly available satellite imagery and related geospatial tools and products to help key stakeholders and decision makers in the region make more informed d
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced on March 8 a five-year project that will use satellite imagery to address environment and development challenges across the Amazon Basin.
A blog posted by Spatial Informatics Group (SIG) describes ways that the new SERVIR-Amazonia hub will bring geospatial information to assist with sustainable development problems and natural resource protection for the Amazonia region.
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.
While mangroves ordinarily provide multiple benefits to Guyana's coast, they are currently under threat due to rising sea levels, deforestation, and coastal erosion.
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.