Flash Flood Vulnerability Mapping in West Africa
The Flash Flood Vulnerability Mapping service focuses on improving flash flood vulnerability mapping and early assessments of the potential socioeconomic impacts of anticipated floods.
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The Flash Flood Vulnerability Mapping service focuses on improving flash flood vulnerability mapping and early assessments of the potential socioeconomic impacts of anticipated floods.
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 Crop Type Mapping and Condition Assessment in Senegal service will develop tools for estimating crop yields and provide early warning of food insecurity throughout the sub-region using varied ecosystems in Senegal, which are representative of ecosystems found throughout West Africa.
The primary objective of the P-Locust service is to enhance the monitoring and prevention efforts against locust population growth.
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 highlights how SERVIR is using satellite data to pinpoint breeding locations for locusts so that the pests can be eradicated before they take flight.
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.
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.
SERVIR Applied Sciences Team (AST) PI Shraddhanand Shukla was interviewed in a recent online feature posted by Science News.