Articles & Stories Collect Earth Online helps fight illegal mining in Amazon Collect Earth Online (CEO) is helping to stop illegal mining in the Peruvian Amazon, protecting primary forests and the indigenous communities who live in the region. March 31, 2022
Articles & Stories Detecting Forest Degradation with CEO's Geo-Dash Users of Collect Earth Online (CEO) around the world are taking advantage of a CEO feature called the Geo-Dash Degradation Tool that allows them to monitor forest degradation, a major source of carbon emissions. June 17, 2021
Articles & Stories Adding new tools for tracking a changing landscape Monitoring land cover change over time is essential to understanding ecosystem health, biodiversity, forest carbon cycling, and much more. Land cover/land use (LCLU) data and maps are critical components for climate monitoring applications such as Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions reports. March 23, 2017
Articles & Stories SERVIR Guides Flood Protection in Kenya Like many rivers across the world, the Nzoia River in western Kenya pushes over its banks each year. In recent years, to protect lives and property in Kenya, SERVIR-Eastern & Southern Africa (E&SA) at the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) has provided high-accuracy flood level scenario maps to the World Bank to guide their flood protection dike repairs in the region. March 17, 2017
Blog SERVIR "SWAAT" team helping water resource managers in Africa With floods and droughts as two of the most catastrophic natural disasters in the regions it serves, SERVIR strives to be on the cutting edge in addressing challenges related to water. April 8, 2016