SERVIR connecting space to village in West Africa
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.
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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.
On December 14, 2016, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's Dan Irwin received the Rotary Humanitarian STAR Award.
Representatives from the SERVIR Science Coordination Office (SCO), international hubs, and Applied Sciences Team (AST) traveled to San Francisco for the Annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 12-16 December 2016.
SERVIR hubs are at the forefront in developing high-quality water information, tools, products, and services that enable partner countries to monitor, measure, and report on water resources and changes, and to better predict and manage water-related disasters.
Since 2005, an ambitious collaboration between NASA and USAID has been quietly but steadily building the capacity of scientific organizations, government officials, emergency responders, and communities across the developing world to better handle environmental challenges.
The SERVIR program, launched in 2005, connects NASA, U.S. researchers, a network of development partners around the world, and companies like Google to harness the power of satellite observations — helping countries see, with greater clarity, how their environments affect well-being and safety.