Fact Sheet: SERVIR West Africa 2
This fact sheet provides and overview SERVIR West Africa phase 2 implementation, which includes a consortium of seven regional institutions in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Mali and Senegal.
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This fact sheet provides and overview SERVIR West Africa phase 2 implementation, which includes a consortium of seven regional institutions in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Mali and Senegal.
SERVIR recently collaborated with the Central American Aerospace Network to lead the Jóvenes Geoespaciales (“Geospatial Youth”) workshop for 45 young students in San Miguel, El Salvador. The students used NASA Earth data and open access tools to create their own projects for local climate resilience, including maps for monitoring crop health, wildfires, and deforestation.
|Lena Pransky, NASA Science Coordination Office
At the Jóvenes Geoespaciales training in El Salvador, 45 talented young students worked in groups to use NASA satellite data and Google Earth Engine to develop projects for local climate resilience. Each group learned how to develop their own ArcGIS StoryMaps web page for displaying their data, which they can use to advocate for climate action.
|Lena Pransky, NASA Science Coordination Office
The Land Use Land Cover and Change Mapping Service was designed to provide governments with data, tools, and skills to better understand relevant intervention actions related to land conservation and management, ensuring that land resources can be efficiently monitored and regulated.
The Regional Cropland Assessment and Monitoring Service seeks to provide timely information for food security assessments through the development of national and regional crop monitors in East Africa.
The Satellite-Based Water Quality Monitoring Service leverages Earth observing satellite information to assess historical water quality changes of in-land trans-boundary lakes.
Across the globe, disasters and their impacts have been on the rise. Developing countries are especially vulnerable to risks from natural hazards such as floods, landslides, and droughts. SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa is helping such countries in their region leverage geospatial technologies to reduce disaster risk and enhance regional capacity in disaster management.
A new paper published recently in Environmental Research Letters – Reviews, led by SERVIR Applied Sciences Team member Scott Goetz, details the state-of-the art of techniques and tools available for keeping track of the Earth's forests and their changes.
SERVIR's Susan Kotikot, a graduate research assistant from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, has created a compelling story map to reveal the effects of civil unrest on Rwanda's land cover.
The Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) in Nairobi and its partner organization, SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa, hosted two-day stakeholders’ and consultations workshops from 23-31 May 2016 in Uganda, Rwanda, and Tanzania, respectively.