RCMRD/SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa water quality workshop
SERVIR E&SA gave a workshop to teach basic skills to work with satellite remote sensing data for water quality assessments in Lake Victoria.
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SERVIR E&SA gave a workshop to teach basic skills to work with satellite remote sensing data for water quality assessments in Lake Victoria.
Agriculture is the backbone of economies in East African countries such as Tanzania. To succeed they need more information about droughts and dry spells, yet getting that information to farmers remains a challenge.
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.
RCMRD hosted a training event called “Satellite Based Frost Mapping and Monitoring using MODIS Data" on 23-24 July 2015.
|James Wanjohi, Eastern & Southern Africa/RCMRD
TerraOnTrack is a web application developed as part of this service to help traditional communities and indigenous people to quickly identify potential threats to their territories and monitor illegal activities on the ground.
The December 2015 edition of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) Newsletter includes a Spotlight article on the SERVIR-Mekong hub.
With its economy based largely on agriculture, water is a critical resource for Pakistan, which is why they are using data from NASA’s GRACE mission to monitor groundwater storage in the Indus Basin.
SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa has recently generated several new data products and services for a variety of purposes and geographic locations. These products and services are important to diverse users in RCMRD member states and beyond.
|Patrick Kabatha, RCMRD/SERVIR-E&SA
A group of Earth scientists and stakeholders from across the globe converged last summer in Tacoma, Washington, for three days of important brainstorming and to ask, “How can we best use images and data from Earth observing (EO) satellites for the benefit of people everywhere?”
SERVIR Applied Sciences Team members Pietro Ceccato and Erika Podest are proving that space is a good vantage point for fighting deadly diseases.