Space Apps Challenge: Global Teamwork for Earth and Space
SERVIR hubs joined over 185 other locations in 69 countries across the globe in hosting the 2017 NASA International Space Apps Challenge.
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SERVIR hubs joined over 185 other locations in 69 countries across the globe in hosting the 2017 NASA International Space Apps Challenge.
Susan Malaso Kotikot, a native of Kenya who came to the U.S. almost 2 years ago to accept a graduate research assistantship and work with SERVIR, wants to help mitigate crop damage by frost – and protect the livelihoods of many Kenyans.
Learn how Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Cooperatives (MoALFC) used the Regional Cropland Assessment and Monitoring Service to improve its yield assessment.
SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa (E&SA) at the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), together with the government of Rwanda, recently released new 2015 land cover maps, disseminating them during a workshop in May 2017 in Kigali.
How does one leverage the latest scientific and technological advances to place the power of the Cloud and Earth observations (EO) at the fingertips of researchers based in dynamically changing countries?
SERVIR has been strongly supporting the use of Earth observation technologies by countries in Eastern and Southern Africa to account for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
SERVIR-Eastern & Southern Africa, based at the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), held a week-long work plan development workshop on July 17- 21, 2017 at Maanzoni Lodge, Kenya.
The U.S. Department of State partnered with organizations such as World Learning, Girl Up, Google, and Intel to support a Women in Science (WiSci) Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) Camp at the Malawi University of Science and Technology in Thyolo, Malawi.
The RCMRD Space Challenge 2017 Awards Ceremony was held on July 7, 2017, at the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) in Nairobi, Kenya.
Business Daily Africa recently featured an article about the land use and crop cover maps developed by RCMRD/SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa and available on their open data web portal.