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 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 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
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 Keeping a high-tech watch over green space With state-of-the art satellite remote sensing techniques, countries can conduct accurate forest inventories as well as map and monitor land use change. March 3, 2017