Space Apps Challenge: Global Teamwork for Earth and Space
SERVIR hubs joined over 185 other locations in 69 countries across the globe in hosting the 2017 NASA International Space Apps Challenge.
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SERVIR hubs joined over 185 other locations in 69 countries across the globe in hosting the 2017 NASA International Space Apps Challenge.
Begum Rushi from the SERVIR Science Coordination Office and Pradeep Dangal from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)/SERVIR-Hindu Kush Himalaya led a training on the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) hydrological model at ICIMOD in Kathmandu, Nepal, 21 - 23 May 2017.
SERVIR-Eastern & Southern Africa, based at the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), held a week-long work plan development workshop on July 17- 21, 2017 at Maanzoni Lodge, Kenya.
SERVIR-Mekong conducted a joint training 3-4 August 2017 with SERVIR Applied Sciences Team members Hyongki Lee and Faisal Hossain for officials from the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology (MOWRAM) of Cambodia.
SERVIR graduate research assistant Kelsey Herndon is using Earth observation satellite data to map surface water and its changes in Niger, West Africa.
USAID's website features a success story from the SERVIR-Mekong/ADPC partnership with Google to provide training on GEE.
The Uganda Directorate of Water Resources Management manages and develops Uganda’s water resources in an integrated and sustainable manner.
Transboundary water management is a challenge to countries in the Lower Mekong. Surface water distribution changes over space and time and these patterns can provide insight into ecological structure and function, patterns of flooding and flood risk, and the impacts on the landscape, infrastructure, and the people at-risk.
Earth Magazine recently featured an article on SERVIR, highlighting the program and in particular several activities of the SERVIR-Mekong hub, which is based at ADPC in Bangkok, Thailand.
SERVIR Global representatives from Africa, Hindu Kush-Himalaya, Lower Mekong region, NASA Science Coordination Office (SCO), USAID, and the SERVIR Applied Sciences Teams (AST) attended the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) 50th Fall Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, 11-15 December 2017.