Articles & Stories Space Age Technology to Monitor Land Use in the Lower Mekong Monitoring land cover and land use change is important for land resource planning, maintaining ecosystem services, and for building resilience to climate change. May 15, 2018
Articles & Stories Driving Innovation to Solve Real-World Problems SERVIR improves capacity to create and utilize innovative tools, products and services to better manage today's complex development and environment challenges. May 4, 2018
Articles & Stories Enhancing Protection of Forests Across the Globe Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellites The crucial role forests play in our world cannot be underestimated. To enhance preservation and monitoring of this natural resource, SERVIR and SilvaCarbon launched a series of global workshops this year in West Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, Hindu-Kush Himalaya, and the Lower Mekong region on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) applications. March 14, 2018
Articles & Stories Experts Test AIT's Flood Risk Assessment System Through USAID's SERVIR-Mekong grants program, in partnership with NASA, the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) arranged a regional training workshop to estimate future flood exposure by combining scenarios for urban growth with flood models. February 23, 2018
Articles & Stories Planning, Growth Made Easier with Digital Maps 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. November 18, 2017