SERVIR Profile of Mary Amponsah
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Meet Mary Amponsah, an Assistant Application Specialist for SERVIR-West Africa / Centre for Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Services (CERSGIS).
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Meet Mary Amponsah, an Assistant Application Specialist for SERVIR-West Africa / Centre for Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Services (CERSGIS).
To sustainably manage forest landscapes, governments and decision makers need accurate and up-to-date information on the extent of the forests they manage and the ways they are changing.
Firewood and charcoal provide more than 80 percent of energy used in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Agroforestry Centre, with only a small volume produced sustainably.
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.
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.