Map Validation with Collect Earth Online in Ecuador
The Map Validation with Collect Earth Online (CEO) service enables more accurate forest monitoring data, which is necessary for the evaluation of public policy related to forest management.
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The Map Validation with Collect Earth Online (CEO) service enables more accurate forest monitoring data, which is necessary for the evaluation of public policy related to forest management.
Forty students from major cities and the mountains of Pakistan assembled for a special event in Islamabad, Pakistan, 24-27 November 2014, to learn about the environmental impacts of climate change and about state of the art tools for addressing this issue.
SERVIR project director Dan Irwin has just returned from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 20th Conference of Parties (COP20) held in Lima, Peru.
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.
The Supporting Climate Adaptation and Mitigation in Myanmar service was a collaboration between SERVIR and Myanmar develop a National Land Cover Monitoring System, a web-based tool created using the cloud-based Google Earth Engine.
Forested areas are important to our planet's health because they take in large amounts of carbon and release oxygen. When forests are removed or degraded, less carbon is taken from the atmosphere, and the result is increased carbon emissions, which may hasten climate change and increase its impact.
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.