A Steep Climb to Cleaner Air in South Asia
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NASA atmospheric scientists and the SERVIR program are working to help keep communities breathing easy in the Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountain ranges.
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NASA atmospheric scientists and the SERVIR program are working to help keep communities breathing easy in the Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountain ranges.
This service improves air quality monitoring through a web-based dashboard that was developed that utilizes publicly available observation data, satellite-based remote sensing products, and atmospheric models.
Bangladesh is a densely populated country where most people live in rural areas, and land management is critical to their well-being.
|Kabir Uddin, SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya
Air quality is a significant challenge for Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), a high mountain region of South Asia, where it frequently reaches unhealthy to hazardous levels. New SERVIR HKH web and mobile tools developed through crowdsourcing aim to help public health and environmental managers monitor and forecast air quality for this region.
|Trista Brophy Cerquera (Former NASA Applied Sciences Intern), Elissa Fielding (NASA Earth Action Intern), Shobhana Gupta, MD, PhD (NASA Applied Sciences)
Rice is a dietary staple in Nepali households, and support farming communities and food security, the government needs to know how much rice is being grown. This past year, Nepal partnered with SERVIR to use innovative technology for a more accurate assessment of its rice area and production.
|Sravan Shrestha and Jaber Hassan, SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya
The Food Security Vulnerability Information System of Nepal is a completed service that enabled a diverse set of decision makers to share information about food security through a single system using ICT tools and GIS functionalities.
Wheat is one of Afghanistan's largest agricultural products, yet current production levels fail to meet increasing demand, and wheat remains one of the nation's biggest imports.
|Megan Kirchner, Communications Intern for the NASA SERVIR Science Coordination Office