Monitoring Land Cover for Resilient Development
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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.
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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.
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.
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 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.
The United States Agency for International Development's Regional Development Mission for Asia (USAID/RDMA) recently released "Commodity-Driven Forest Loss: A Study of Southeast Asia," a report exploring trade-offs between agricultural production and forest conservation.
Users of Collect Earth Online (CEO) around the world are taking advantage of a CEO feature called the Geo-Dash Degradation Tool that allows them to monitor forest degradation, a major source of carbon emissions.
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.
Air Quality Monitoring for Sustainable Landscapes and Better Human Health aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve climate resilience and promote better human health by using air quality data for informing and regulating the management of agricultural burning.
Land Cover Monitoring for Forest Protection and Healthy Ecosystems aims to decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while supporting biodiversity conservation and augmenting water conservation.