SERVIR-Mekong adds key tools for environmental monitoring
Recently, the SERVIR-Mekong team added three new tools to aid in the environmental monitoring of the Mekong River Basin.
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Recently, the SERVIR-Mekong team added three new tools to aid in the environmental monitoring of the Mekong River Basin.
Like many rivers across the world, the Nzoia River in western Kenya pushes over its banks each year. In recent years, to protect lives and property in Kenya, SERVIR-Eastern & Southern Africa (E&SA) at the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) has provided high-accuracy flood level scenario maps to the World Bank to guide their flood protection dike repairs in the region.
The Mekong River Commission (MRC) is an intergovernmental organization that provides coordination and technical input on flood management to the members of the Lower Mekong countries including Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Vietnam.
In the context of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded SilvaCarbon initiative, the US Forest Service (USFS) will be hosting a webinar to introduce an online training course on Remote Sensing for Forest Cover Change Detection using freely available, open source software (QGIS and Google Earth Engine).
The forests of Vietnam support the livelihoods of over 24 to 30 million rural people in Vietnam. Deforestation has serious effects on biodiversity, threatening the safety of millions of inhabitants as well as wildlife.
Through USAID's SERVIR-Mekong grants program, in partnership with NASA, the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) arranged a regional training workshop to estimate future flood exposure by combining scenarios for urban growth with flood models.
The crucial role forests play in our world cannot be underestimated. To enhance preservation and monitoring of this natural resource, SERVIR and SilvaCarbon launched a series of global workshops this year in West Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, Hindu-Kush Himalaya, and the Lower Mekong region on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) applications.
SERVIR improves capacity to create and utilize innovative tools, products and services to better manage today's complex development and environment challenges.
For many years, pastoralists in Northern Kenya have been affected by Opuntia stricta, an invasive cactus native to the Caribbean region and commonly referred to as prickly pear.
Forest fires have adverse ecological and economic effects and are a major concern in many countries, including Nepal. During the long, dry summers, Nepal experiences many forest fires. In 2016, a record number of fires were reported killing 15 people and consuming an area of 13,000 square kilometers (1.3 hectares) in the span of just two weeks.