Kenya Invasive Species Mapper
The Invasive Species Mapper is a citizen-science smartphone app that crowdsources invasive species detection to give managers information on their current extent and spread.
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The Invasive Species Mapper is a citizen-science smartphone app that crowdsources invasive species detection to give managers information on their current extent and spread.
The Kenya tea industry supports 10 percent of Kenya's population, around 3 million families. The industry is prone to damage by frost due to the altitudes in which it is grown.
Through a partnership between SERVIR Eastern & Southern Africa and the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture, a new satellite-based crop mapping system and sampling methodology was developed to streaml
Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture is collaborating with USAID and NASA to use satellite tools that expand their understanding of the climate-related challenges that farmers are facing.
|Lena Pransky and Jacob Ramthun, NASA Science Coordination Office
The Web has changed every aspect of our lives, from daily events to professional undertakings such as work related activities. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – tools that enable us to manipulate the geographic aspects of data – have also been affected by web technology.
|Patrick Kabatha, RCMRD/SERVIR
From a modest upbringing in a plaster-coated, mud-and-bamboo house in Kampala, Uganda to sharing the million dollar Al Sumait Prize for African Development, Assistant Professor Catherine Nakalembe’s life could easily become a Hollywood movie.
The Ecological Modeling Service uses select data sources, derived products, and modeling techniques to better understand the distribution and spread of invasive species.
From 2008 - 2023, SERVIR Eastern and Southern Africa developed a diverse collection of user-tailored geospatial services that use Earth observations and NASA data to inform resilient development in
The Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Assessments Service assesses climate change impacts on vulnerable communities, water resources, and ecosystems in order to better address resilience building activities.
The Frost Monitoring and Forecasting service provides timely information on the current and future probability of a frost occurrence to help farmers in the Kenyan highlands prepare and reduce crop losses.