A Steep Climb to Cleaner Air in South Asia
NASA atmospheric scientists and the SERVIR program are working to help keep communities breathing easy in the Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountain ranges.
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NASA atmospheric scientists and the SERVIR program are working to help keep communities breathing easy in the Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountain ranges.
In the low-lying Terai region of Nepal, fields of emerald green rice sweep across the landscape as far as the eye can see. Villages dot the region, which produces the majority of Nepal’s rice.
|Meryl Kruskopf and Jacob Ramthun, SERVIR Science Coordination Office
SERVIR scientists discuss the how the Regional Drought Monitoring and Early Warning System is being used in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region.
Air quality is a significant challenge for Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), a high mountain region of South Asia, where it frequently reaches unhealthy to hazardous levels. New SERVIR HKH web and mobile tools developed through crowdsourcing aim to help public health and environmental managers monitor and forecast air quality for this region.
|Trista Brophy Cerquera (Former NASA Applied Sciences Intern), Elissa Fielding (NASA Earth Action Intern), Shobhana Gupta, MD, PhD (NASA Applied Sciences)
Working in developing countries around the world, SERVIR seeks to incorporate regional knowledge and perspectives to best meet end user needs in addressing issues such as flood forecasting, forest fire management, landslide hazard, agricultural monitoring, and biomass estimation.
Remote districts of Western Nepal are experiencing what some claim is their worst drought in 40 years. Analyses prepared by the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development are helping the Government of Nepal evaluate the situation and make critical decisions about how to respond.
This collection of case studies is a companion to the SERVIR Service Planning Toolkit. It provides concrete examples from SERVIR’s experience, and that of our partners, applying the Service Planning approach.
SERVIR hubs joined over 185 other locations in 69 countries across the globe in hosting the 2017 NASA International Space Apps Challenge.
Nepal’s Ministry of Agricultural Development (MoAD), with the support of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), has launched a new online Food Security Information System.
ICIMOD, ADPC, and CSRD are organizing a three-day Regional Knowledge Forum on Earth Observation and Climate Services for Food Security and Agricultural Decision Making in South and Southeast Asia, 8 – 10 October 2018.