NASA feature highlights Applied Sciences Team monitoring drought in Eastern Africa
A recent NASA article highlighted Applied Sciences Team Principal Investigator Dr. Evan Thomas and the Drought Resilience Impact Platform (DRIP).
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A recent NASA article highlighted Applied Sciences Team Principal Investigator Dr. Evan Thomas and the Drought Resilience Impact Platform (DRIP).
SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya partnered with the University of Alaska Fairbanks to organize a training titled HydroSAR: Extracting flood information from SAR to advance the use of SAR at ICIMOD and across the HKH region.
For Earth Day this year, SERVIR is voicing its commitment to addressing climate change in its services. Climate change threatens sources of food and water, increase the severity and frequency of disasters, endanger critical ecosystems, and can exacerbate existing social inequities.
ICIMOD, under its SERVIR-HKH Initiative, is collaborating with Brigham Young University, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and national partners to enhance flood early warning systems in Bangladesh and Nepal
A SERVIR "hackathon" on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)-based flood forecasting methods, held May 24 – 28, brought together participants from the SERVIR Science Coordination Office, SERVIR-HKH, and Applied Sciences Team members.
ICIMOD has compiled a recently released open-access book — Earth Observation Science and Applications for Risk Reduction and Enhanced Resilience in Hindu Kush Himalaya Region: A Decade of Experience from SERVIR — which was launched virtually on 25 August 2021.
The Monitoring Ephemeral Water Bodies in Ferlo, Senegal Service is a web-based platform for assessing water availability in all known ponds, thus facilitating water management in arid areas such as the Ferlo Region of Senegal.
SERVIR Mekong helped develop the Regional Hydrological Extremes and Assessment System (RHEAS), which automates the deployment of water resource nowcasting and forecasting applications to help mitigate the effects of drought in the lower Mekong region.
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.
Read about recent SERVIR activities in the Mekong region to help them use NASA's publicly available satellite data to support decision making on water resources issues.