CONNECTING SPACE TO VILLAGE
SERVIR
Locally led. Globally connected. Lasting impact.
Through regional hubs across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, SERVIR co-develops operational services that strengthen locally-led action on climate resilience, disaster preparedness, food and water security, and environmental stewardship.
We believe scientific innovation achieves lasting impact when it is embedded in trusted institutions, built on open science, and co-developed with the regional partners responsible for translating it into operational services.
governance Structure
A distributed governance model with shared authority, coordinated operations, and regionally anchored leadership
Cross Hub Working Groups
Where we work
SERVIR West Africa
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SERVIR Mesoamerica
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SERVIR Eastern and Southern Africa
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SERVIR Tropical South America
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SERVIR East Asia and the Pacific
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SERVIR South Asia
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What we do
SERVIR accelerates the journey from scientific innovation to operational impact. We co-develop decision-support services with regional institutions, build shared digital platforms that reduce the cost and time of deploying new capabilities, strengthen the institutions that sustain those services, and create pathways for successful innovations to be reused and scaled across regions. Our investments in governance, shared digital infrastructure, scientific excellence, capacity strengthening, and strategic partnerships support this work across the network; ensuring that advances in Earth observation science and GeoAI become trusted, equitable, and sustainable operational services.
Our Objectives
SERVIR’s work is guided by five interconnected strategic objectives that strengthen the network’s ability to translate scientific innovation into trusted, locally-led operational services.
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Strengthen Governance and Coordination
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Build Shared Platforms and Digital Infrastructure
We build platforms that provide shared, interoperable foundations connecting data, scientific models, analytical methods, workflows, and tools into reusable capabilities. These can be assembled into locally tailored decision-support services, enabling regional institutions to build on proven scientific and technical foundations rather than recreating the full system for every project. By reducing duplication and accelerating innovation, our platforms allow new capabilities to be rapidly adapted, deployed, and scaled across the SERVIR network.
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Advance Scientific Excellence and Innovation
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Ensure Long-Term Sustainability
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Demonstrate Impact
Service Areas
Food Security
The Food Security platform monitors agricultural conditions, anticipates threats to food production, and strengthens food security decision-making. It brings together information on crops, weather, water, and other factors to support agricultural monitoring, production forecasting, and earlier identification of emerging food security risks.
Land Cover and Environmental Monitoring
The Land Cover, and Environmental Monitoring platform strengthens our understanding of how landscapes are changing and what those changes mean for people and ecosystems. It supports consistent monitoring of land cover and land use to inform forest and ecosystem management, conservation, restoration, agriculture, and sustainable land-use planning.
Global Risk
The Global Risk platform brings together information on hazards, exposure, and vulnerability to support risk assessment, early warning, preparedness, and more informed decisions before, during, and after extreme weather and climate events.
Water Security
We advance reliable and equitable access to water through monitoring solutions that track both quantity and quality of water resources. Our platforms help partners sustainably manage surface and groundwater, plan for seasonal variability, and strengthen climate resilience in water supply systems.
Air Quality and Health
The SERVIR Global Collaborative’s regional hubs deliver solutions to track environmental conditions affecting public health. This includes monitoring the sources and spread of air pollution, identifying vulnerable populations, and supporting actions that protect health and enhance climate resilience.
SERVIR GEOAI Platforms
SERVIR uses GeoAI to make advances in Earth observation and artificial intelligence more accessible, useful, and scalable. We build shared capabilities that regional partners can adapt to local needs, helping turn rapidly evolving technologies into trusted, operational services. Our approach is open, interoperable, and flexible so that new models and technologies can be incorporated as they evolve.
GeoAI is embedded across SERVIR’s platforms, providing shared capabilities for analyzing Earth observation data, evaluating and applying AI models, and translating complex information into decision support. Each platform applies these capabilities to a different set of operational challenges.
SERVIR Regional Hub Institutions
