SERVIR "SWAAT" team helping water resource managers in Africa
With floods and droughts as two of the most catastrophic natural disasters in the regions it serves, SERVIR strives to be on the cutting edge in addressing challenges related to water.
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With floods and droughts as two of the most catastrophic natural disasters in the regions it serves, SERVIR strives to be on the cutting edge in addressing challenges related to water.
VAWR, which operates under Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), is the leading institute for water resources, research and development within Vietnam.
Learn how Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Cooperatives (MoALFC) used the Regional Cropland Assessment and Monitoring Service to improve its yield assessment.
Vietnam experienced one of its worst droughts in almost a century from 2015 to 2016, affecting over 2 million people in 52 provinces nationwide. Ninh Thuan, a province in south central Vietnam with a population of just over 600,000, was severely affected.
The ability to transform data into actionable information and obtain easily accessible, analysis-ready Earth observation (EO) data is often a critical missing link for decision makers in the developing world.
To better understand and plan for future droughts in the region, SERVIR-Mekong approached the Vietnam Academy for Water Resources (VAWR) to develop a drought monitoring service.
A recent NASA article highlighted Applied Sciences Team Principal Investigator Dr. Evan Thomas and the Drought Resilience Impact Platform (DRIP).
This collection of case studies is a companion to the SERVIR Service Planning Toolkit. It provides concrete examples of SERVIR's Service Planning approach.
Enhancing Anticipatory Actions for Disaster and Climate Resilience aims to reduce the loss of lives and damage to properties and crops from floods and droughts by improving early warnings using satellite data and geospatial information.
SERVIR Mekong helped develop the Regional Hydrological Extremes and Assessment System (RHEAS), which automates the deployment of water resource nowcasting and forecasting applications to help mitigate the effects of drought in the lower Mekong region.