Protecting Guyana's Mangroves and Communities with NASA Satellites
SERVIR is helping protect biodiversity and human lives in Guyana by working with communities to keep a watchful eye on the health of coastal mangrove forests.
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SERVIR is helping protect biodiversity and human lives in Guyana by working with communities to keep a watchful eye on the health of coastal mangrove forests.
In June, SERVIR Applied Sciences Team members Dr. Stephanie Spera and Dr. David Salisbury, geographers at the University of Richmond, organized a workshop in Pucallpa, Peru.
With support from organizations such as the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, SERVIR scientists like Dr. Narendra Das of Michigan State University are working with our regional hubs and other stakeholders on models that will better predict crop yields in the face of climate change.
In February 2023, SERVIR officially welcomed its fourth Applied Sciences Team. For the next three years, they will support SERVIR’s efforts to deliver geospatial tools for communities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
On March 16, 2023, during the 67th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, SERVIR Amazonia Program gender advisor, Marina Irigoyen, participated in a lecture on the importance of promoting gender equity.
| Carmen Calle, SERVIR Amazonia
The Agro-met Advisory Service for National/Local level Planning in Nepal and Bangladesh integrates weather and climate data with information about agriculture practices to provide data analysis support to the professionals responsible for developing agro-met advisory services for government structures and farmers.
The Resilient Forest Management in Nepal is designed to assess the current state of forest ecosystems, identify the drivers of change, and explore suitable adaptation and mitigation measures.
The Flash Flood Vulnerability Mapping service focuses on improving flash flood vulnerability mapping and early assessments of the potential socioeconomic impacts of anticipated floods.
Forest rangers in one of Cambodia’s largest remaining forests now get deforestation alerts based on NASA satellite data.
|Ankit Joshi, SERVIR Southeast Asia and Jacob Ramthun, SERVIR Science Coordination Office
The Geospatial Applications for Food Security and Sustainable Landscapes service aims to improve food security in Burma (Myanmar) by improving crop planning and forest landscape management practices in the country.