Monitoring Land Cover for Resilient Development
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.
The forests of Vietnam support the livelihoods of over 24 to 30 million rural people in Vietnam. Deforestation has serious effects on biodiversity, threatening the safety of millions of inhabitants as well as wildlife.
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.
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.
This collection of case studies is a companion to the SERVIR Service Planning Toolkit. It provides concrete examples of SERVIR's Service Planning approach.
Land Cover Monitoring for Forest Protection and Healthy Ecosystems aims to decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while supporting biodiversity conservation and augmenting water conservation.
SERVIR-Mekong developed a new state-of-the-art tool called the Regional Land Cover Monitoring System (RLCMS) to develop high-quality maps and land cover change analysis across the Lower Mekong region.