Articles & Stories NASA feature highlights Applied Sciences Team monitoring drought in Eastern Africa A recent NASA article highlighted Applied Sciences Team Principal Investigator Dr. Evan Thomas and the Drought Resilience Impact Platform (DRIP). March 3, 2021
Articles & Stories Small Satellites, Big Results: SERVIR integrates new high-resolution global datasets to improve environmental monitoring Collecting Earth observations over tropical forests comes with logistical challenges. While protection of these often highly-vulnerable ecosystems is critical to combating climate change, heavy cloud cover and the cost of granular-level data mean that frequent, quality forest cover imagery can be a rare and valuable resource. February 3, 2021
Articles & Stories Protecting Amazonia Forests by Mapping Forest Degradation Using Cloud-Penetrating Satellite Imagery One of the major challenges in monitoring forests is identifying forest degradation processes. Recent years have seen advancements in satellite remote sensing technology, which has in turn revealed changed patterns of illegal deforestation activity in the Amazon rainforest. August 4, 2020
Articles & Stories Applied Sciences Team project informs decision makers with fire season forecast SERVIR AST member Doug Morton discusses the upcoming fire season in Amazonia in a new NASA article. July 11, 2020
Articles & Stories Could Satellites Help Head Off a Locust Invasion? A single desert locust can consume its body weight in vegetation in one day. When 40 million of them gather, they can devour as much food as 35,000 people. April 14, 2020