New Journal Publication Shows Paths Forward for Flood Early Action
Disconnects between forecasters and decision-makers worldwide can often result in less efficient or effective flood response.
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Disconnects between forecasters and decision-makers worldwide can often result in less efficient or effective flood response.
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.
Monitoring forest loss remotely makes it difficult to formulate policies and strategies to address deforestation. Currently, rangers spend long periods of time patrolling forests to monitor forest health and checking for illegal logging and land clearances.
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
March marks the onset of the dry and hot season in Thailand. In the region, dry vegetation coupled with small human-made fires often result in uncontrolled forest fires.
SERVIR continues to seek out ways to foster inclusive climate change action, and best practices for ensuring its services build climate resilience for everyone.
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.
Floods are a recurring event in the HKH region that often have disastrous consequences. To help better understand these events, SERVIR HKH developed the Flood Inundation Mapping Tool, a cloud-based system developed to map flood areas in Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and the northeast part of India.
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.