Hindu Kush Himalaya
SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya helps improve environmental management and resilience in critical areas like food security, water resources management, disaster resilience, and sustainable lan
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SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya helps improve environmental management and resilience in critical areas like food security, water resources management, disaster resilience, and sustainable lan
The Enhancing Drought Resilience and Crop Yield Security for the Lower Mekong Service provides drought nowcasts and forecasts at the regional level in the Lower Mekong Region and provincial level in Vietnam using hydrological and crop model information.
The Mitigating Impacts and Increasing Benefits from Changing River Courses in Myanmar service supported national agencies in monitoring changing river courses and planning riverbank protection measures to mitigate localized impacts to infrastructure.
The Supporting Better Riverine and Flash Flood Forecasting for the Lower Mekong service improves riverine flood forecasts and enhances flash flood guidance monitoring in the region.
The Supporting Climate Adaptation and Mitigation in Myanmar service was a collaboration between SERVIR and Myanmar develop a National Land Cover Monitoring System, a web-based tool created using the cloud-based Google Earth Engine.
Through the Supporting Flood Emergency Preparedness for Myanmar Service, SERVIR Mekong co-developed and supported the use of a systematic decision-support tool for the Myanmar Department of Disaster Management to identify areas with high flood risk.
The objective of the Supporting Near Real-Time Flood Monitoring in Myanmar Service was to develop a multi-sensor based near real-time flood monitoring tool to support the Myanmar Department of Disaster Management (DDM) in monitoring flood events.
Working in developing countries around the world, SERVIR seeks to incorporate regional knowledge and perspectives to best meet end user needs in addressing issues such as flood forecasting, forest fire management, landslide hazard, agricultural monitoring, and biomass estimation.
Densely populated communities living along low-lying deltas in Southeast Asia are dependent on the underground water stores these deltas provide for their livelihoods. Read about recent SERVIR activities toward helping this region use NASA's publicly available satellite data to support decision making on water resources issues.
Recently, the SERVIR-Mekong team added three new tools to aid in the environmental monitoring of the Mekong River Basin.