Collect Earth Online helps fight illegal mining in Amazon
Collect Earth Online (CEO) is helping to stop illegal mining in the Peruvian Amazon, protecting primary forests and the indigenous communities who live in the region.
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Collect Earth Online (CEO) is helping to stop illegal mining in the Peruvian Amazon, protecting primary forests and the indigenous communities who live in the region.
The Monitoring Forest Dynamics to Enable Biodiversity Conservation in the Amazon service - now completed - helped introduce "TerraBio," a monitoring tool to assess the impact of private sector engagement on biodiversity conservation in the Amazon.
At Google’s Geo for Good (G4G) Summit 2023 in Mountain View, California, SERVIR scientists explained how and its collaborators are using artificial intelligence (AI) get more out of Earth data.
| Jake Ramthun, Biplov Bhandari, and Tim Mayer, NASA Science Coordination Office
Collect Earth Online is a custom built, open-source, satellite image viewing and interpretation system developed by SERVIR, FAO, and other partners as a tool for use in projects that require land cover and/or land use data.
Results of a SERVIR Applied Sciences Team (AST) project are helping to identify areas where reforestation will help endangered species of great apes.
According to the World Wildlife Fund, over 2 billion people rely on forests for shelter, livelihoods, water, food, and fuel security. Forests even help renew our air supply, as they take in large amounts of carbon dioxide and release oxygen.
Countries need accurate land cover data and methods for national-level monitoring of land cover changes and forest loss to inform forest management and policy.
Monitoring land cover change over time is essential to understanding ecosystem health, biodiversity, forest carbon cycling, and much more. Land cover/land use (LCLU) data and maps are critical components for climate monitoring applications such as Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions reports.
Business Daily Africa recently featured an article about the land use and crop cover maps developed by RCMRD/SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa and available on their open data web portal.
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.