SERVIR Boosts Forecasting Power in South America
SERVIR's Dr. Jim Nelson and Jorge Luis Sánchez, both of Brigham Young University (BYU), are helping government agencies in South America develop web tools for meteorology and hydrology forecasts.
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SERVIR's Dr. Jim Nelson and Jorge Luis Sánchez, both of Brigham Young University (BYU), are helping government agencies in South America develop web tools for meteorology and hydrology forecasts.
Disaster preparedness and the water resource management require reliable and timely information. In many regions of the world, ground observation data is scarce. Here are three ways that SERVIR's innovative services and tools enable decision-makers and authorities to address water challenges.
|Chinmay Deval, NASA SCO Water Security Lead
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.
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.
This fact sheet describes how SERVIR West Africa works with local stakeholders to strengthen the resilience of pastoral systems in Senegal.
Meet Dieynaba Seck, Project Manager for Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE) (in French).
The Ferlo region of north-central Senegal is a vast expanse of dry savannah covering over a third of the country's total area. For pastorlists, this makes finding water an annual challenge.
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.
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.