Reducing illegal gold mining in the tropical forests of Ghana and Peru
At the recent global knowledge exchange of SERVIR staff from SERVIR-Amazonia and SERVIR-West Africa exchanged ideas and experiences on services for illegal mining detection.
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At the recent global knowledge exchange of SERVIR staff from SERVIR-Amazonia and SERVIR-West Africa exchanged ideas and experiences on services for illegal mining detection.
A single desert locust can consume its body weight in vegetation in one day. When 40 million of them gather, they can devour as much food as 35,000 people.
SERVIR AST member Doug Morton discusses the upcoming fire season in Amazonia in a new NASA article.
One of the major challenges in monitoring forests is identifying forest degradation processes. Recent years have seen advancements in satellite remote sensing technology, which has in turn revealed changed patterns of illegal deforestation activity in the Amazon rainforest.
Collecting Earth observations over tropical forests comes with logistical challenges. While protection of these often highly-vulnerable ecosystems is critical to combating climate change, heavy cloud cover and the cost of granular-level data mean that frequent, quality forest cover imagery can be a rare and valuable resource.
Users of Collect Earth Online (CEO) around the world are taking advantage of a CEO feature called the Geo-Dash Degradation Tool that allows them to monitor forest degradation, a major source of carbon emissions.
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.