Articles & Stories Tracking the Perfect Storm in West Africa: COVID-19 and Desert Locusts The West Africa region has hard-won experience in managing both desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria, Forskål) outbreaks and outbreaks of serious viral epidemics like Ebola. June 27, 2020
Articles & Stories Monitoring air quality from space during the COVID-19 pandemic SERVIR-HKH has developed the Air Quality Explorer for the HKH using freely available satellite data and the Google Earth Engine platform. The application allows visualization of three atmospheric parameters — nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulphur dioxide (SO2), and Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) — for any chosen period and location. June 9, 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
Articles & Stories Youth tackle air pollution using satellite data As Thailand's second largest city, Chiang Mai has been facing the problem of haze pollution over the past decade, due to agricultural practices and rapid industrial growth associated with tourism. April 9, 2020
Articles & Stories U.S. Government Convenes Innovators in Northern Thailand to Tackle Air Pollution Challenges A team of six youth innovators called ‚“No Grant SMOG” won the first prize at Smogathon Thailand 2020 for inventing active-learning tools to educate elementary school children about smog. February 21, 2020|Wadee Deeprawat, SERVIR-Mekong/ADPC