Monitoring Land Cover for Resilient Development
SERVIR-Mekong, along with SilvaCarbon, the US Forest Service and SIG, hosted a Google Earth Engine Training and a second workshop for the Regional Land Cover Monitoring System from 7-14 July 2016.
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SERVIR-Mekong, along with SilvaCarbon, the US Forest Service and SIG, hosted a Google Earth Engine Training and a second workshop for the Regional Land Cover Monitoring System from 7-14 July 2016.
Recently, the SERVIR-Mekong team added three new tools to aid in the environmental monitoring of the Mekong River Basin.
Landscapes on Earth are changing at unprecedented levels. For scientists, practitioners and environmental decision makers, tracking these changes efficiently and accurately is critical to protecting lives and livelihoods.
USAID's website features a success story from the SERVIR-Mekong/ADPC partnership with Google to provide training on GEE.
The forests of Vietnam support the livelihoods of over 24 to 30 million rural people in Vietnam. Deforestation has serious effects on biodiversity, threatening the safety of millions of inhabitants as well as wildlife.
Earth Magazine recently featured an article on SERVIR, highlighting the program and in particular several activities of the SERVIR-Mekong hub, which is based at ADPC in Bangkok, Thailand.
The crucial role forests play in our world cannot be underestimated. To enhance preservation and monitoring of this natural resource, SERVIR and SilvaCarbon launched a series of global workshops this year in West Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, Hindu-Kush Himalaya, and the Lower Mekong region on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) applications.
On March 8 to 9 SERVIR-Mekong organized a final workshop for the Small Grants Program, a 10-month program that supported organizations and institutions that use Earth observations to address environmental management challenges in the Mekong Region.
USAID and NASA are supporting women scientists around the world to use science and technology to improve resilience and raise the visibility of women in science.
The Mekong Region Land Governance Project (MRLG), funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, featured land cover maps created by the SERVIR-Mekong team in their 2018 Mekong State of Land Report.