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.
Thirty-eight participants—13 of them women—from Nepal and Kenya, convened for a four-day training workshop in Kathmandu, Nepal, on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform.
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.
During 1-2 June 2017, SERVIR-Mekong personnel led a kick-off workshop for seven grantee organizations selected under the SERVIR-Mekong Grants Program at the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center in Bangkok, Thailand. The purpose of the event was to define roles and responsibilities, outline grant activities, and provide opportunities for the grantees to interact in person with SERVIR-Mekong staff.
SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa (E&SA) at the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), together with the government of Rwanda, recently released new 2015 land cover maps, disseminating them during a workshop in May 2017 in Kigali.
How does one leverage the latest scientific and technological advances to place the power of the Cloud and Earth observations (EO) at the fingertips of researchers based in dynamically changing countries?
SERVIR has been strongly supporting the use of Earth observation technologies by countries in Eastern and Southern Africa to account for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
The SERVIR-Amazonia Request for Application (RFA) has been released to the public.
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.
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's SERVIR and Short-term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT) Center programs have been selected to host Komlan “Richard” Folly, a native of Togo, West Africa, participating in the prestigious Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders in August and September 2017.