SERVIR Boosts Forecasting Power in South America
SERVIR's Dr. Jim Nelson and Jorge Luis Sánchez, both of Brigham Young University (BYU), are helping government agencies in South America develop web tools for meteorology and hydrology forecasts.
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SERVIR's Dr. Jim Nelson and Jorge Luis Sánchez, both of Brigham Young University (BYU), are helping government agencies in South America develop web tools for meteorology and hydrology forecasts.
Nestled in between soaring green mountains, Guatemala’s Lake Atitlán is renowned as one of the most beautiful lakes in the world. It has also been under threat by massive blooms of algae clotting its pristine waters. In 2009 and 2015, massive “blooms” of algae threatened to cause severe ecological damage.
|Jacob Ramthun, SERVIR Science Coordination Office
Disaster preparedness and the water resource management require reliable and timely information. In many regions of the world, ground observation data is scarce. Here are three ways that SERVIR's innovative services and tools enable decision-makers and authorities to address water challenges.
|Chinmay Deval, NASA SCO Water Security Lead
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.
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.
A blog posted by Spatial Informatics Group (SIG) describes ways that the new SERVIR-Amazonia hub will bring geospatial information to assist with sustainable development problems and natural resource protection for the Amazonia region.
This flood monitoring service utilizes Google Earth Engine and the available LandSAT and SENTINEL data collections, spanning from 2014 to the present date, to determine water surface areas within specific date ranges.
Africa Flores-Anderson of the NASA SERVIR Science Coordination Office is featured in the latest episode of the "Breakthrough: Portraits of Women in Science" documentary series.