Articles & Stories SERVIR Boosts Forecasting Power in South America SERVIR's Dr. Jim Nelson and Jorge Luis Sánchez, both of Brigham Young University (BYU), are helping government agencies in South America develop web tools for meteorology and hydrology forecasts. May 18, 2022
Articles & Stories Pathways to Re-boost Sustainable Agriculture, Forestry, and Land Use in Southeast Asia The United States Agency for International Development's Regional Development Mission for Asia (USAID/RDMA) recently released "Commodity-Driven Forest Loss: A Study of Southeast Asia," a report exploring trade-offs between agricultural production and forest conservation. April 20, 2021
Articles & Stories Virtual Hackathon aids SERVIR-Mekong in water management applications, preparation for upcoming SWOT mission In May 2020, NASA and the University of Washington hosted a virtual “hackathon” for early adopters of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission (scheduled for launch in 2022). September 10, 2020
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 SERVIR-Mekong promotes satellite technology to track fire hotspots and monitor air pollution Forest fires have been raging across Northern Thailand for the past month, endangering the lives of animals and people. During the second half of March 2020, a considerable number of fire hotspots were detected within protected forest areas across eight provinces, with the highest concentration in Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Son provinces. June 3, 2020