Protecting Guyana's Mangroves and Communities with NASA Satellites
SERVIR is helping protect biodiversity and human lives in Guyana by working with communities to keep a watchful eye on the health of coastal mangrove forests.
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SERVIR is helping protect biodiversity and human lives in Guyana by working with communities to keep a watchful eye on the health of coastal mangrove forests.
In June, SERVIR Applied Sciences Team members Dr. Stephanie Spera and Dr. David Salisbury, geographers at the University of Richmond, organized a workshop in Pucallpa, Peru.
In February 2023, SERVIR officially welcomed its fourth Applied Sciences Team. For the next three years, they will support SERVIR’s efforts to deliver geospatial tools for communities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
On March 16, 2023, during the 67th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, SERVIR Amazonia Program gender advisor, Marina Irigoyen, participated in a lecture on the importance of promoting gender equity.
| Carmen Calle, SERVIR Amazonia
The Resilient Forest Management in Nepal is designed to assess the current state of forest ecosystems, identify the drivers of change, and explore suitable adaptation and mitigation measures.
Forest rangers in one of Cambodia’s largest remaining forests now get deforestation alerts based on NASA satellite data.
|Ankit Joshi, SERVIR Southeast Asia and Jacob Ramthun, SERVIR Science Coordination Office
The Geospatial Applications for Food Security and Sustainable Landscapes service aims to improve food security in Burma (Myanmar) by improving crop planning and forest landscape management practices in the country.
Air Quality Monitoring for Sustainable Landscapes and Better Human Health aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve climate resilience and promote better human health by using air quality data for informing and regulating the management of agricultural burning.
Ghana is home to some of the most biodiverse and carbon-dense forests in the world. But more than a third of them have been lost in recent decades.
The GeoFem: Women in Geospatial Technologies workshop was hosted and organized by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the Central America Aerospace Network (RAC) in San José.
|Lena Pransky, NASA Science Coordination Office