Southeast Asia
SERVIR Southeast Asia (SERVIR SEA) uses publicly available satellite data to address climate change and sustainable development challenges. SERVIR SEA co-develops decision supp
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SERVIR Southeast Asia (SERVIR SEA) uses publicly available satellite data to address climate change and sustainable development challenges. SERVIR SEA co-develops decision supp
It may seem like farming is the enemy when it comes to preventing deforestation in the Amazon—and with good reason. The expansion of large-scale farming and cattle ranching is a leading cause of deforestation. However, the role of small-scale farming is less understood.
|Lena Pransky, NASA Science Coordination Office
The Monitoring of Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon service produces near real-time information on deforestation and mining activity in the southern Peruvian Amazon.
SERVIR Amazonia, an initiative of USAID and NASA, addresses environmental and development challenges across the Amazon Basin using state-of-the-art geospatial technologies. The
The Ecosystem Services Modeling in the Amazon's Forest-Agricultural Interface service provides accurate maps for stakeholders and decision-makers to understand how agricultural production can lead to deforestation, particularly due to palm oil and cacao production.
The Forecasting Seasonal to Sub-seasonal Fire and Agricultural Risk from Drought service provides information for evaluating drought conditions at temporal and spatial resolution to predict fire vulnerability in the Amazon basin.
The Improving Resilience and Reducing Risk of Extreme Hydrological Events service provides stakeholders in the Amazon Basin region with improved historical water information and a flood forecasting ability to support greater resiliency to flood disasters.
Quantifying the Effects of Forest Changes on Provisioning and Regulating Ecosystem Services is a service that allows stakeholders to better understand the tradeoffs between development activities and ecosystem services.
TerraOnTrack is a web application developed as part of this service to help traditional communities and indigenous people to quickly identify potential threats to their territories and monitor illegal activities on the ground.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced on March 8 a five-year project that will use satellite imagery to address environment and development challenges across the Amazon Basin.