Streamflow Monitoring, Enhancing Flood Early Warning Services, and High Impact Weather Assessment
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Across the globe, disasters and their impacts have been on the rise. Developing countries are especially vulnerable to risks from natural hazards such as floods, landslides, and droughts. SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa is helping such countries in their region leverage geospatial technologies to reduce disaster risk and enhance regional capacity in disaster management.
At the Annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), held 15-19 December 2014 in San Francisco, officials from Bangladesh made a big announcement. They are expanding use of a satellite-based flood forecasting and warning system developed by SERVIR.
Eric Anderson, SERVIR Technical Point of Contact for the Himalaya region, has been chosen to receive the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools (CSGS) 2015 Master's Thesis Award in the category of Digital Scholarship.
SERVIR-Himalaya hosted the first 2015 SERVIR Hub Exchange, 10-13 March 2015, in Kathmandu, Nepal, bringing together SERVIR team members from around the globe.
Through the Supporting Flood Emergency Preparedness for Myanmar Service, SERVIR Mekong co-developed and supported the use of a systematic decision-support tool for the Myanmar Department of Disaster Management to identify areas with high flood risk.
After the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in the Gorkha area of Nepal and the ensuing aftershocks, a secondary hazard is looming throughout the surrounding area: landslides.
Some new international guests were seen around the SERVIR coordination office in Huntsville, Alabama, in early June 2015.
|Rachel Gaal, technical writing intern for SERVIR
Working in developing countries around the world, SERVIR seeks to incorporate regional knowledge and perspectives to best meet end user needs in addressing issues such as flood forecasting, forest fire management, landslide hazard, agricultural monitoring, and biomass estimation.
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), the SERVIR-Himalaya host organization, earned the Esri Humanitarian GIS Award on 20 July 2015 for their contribution to the Nepalese government's disaster response efforts following the recent earthquakes in the country.