SERVIR Women Scientists Build Resilience Around the World
USAID and NASA are supporting women scientists around the world to use science and technology to improve resilience and raise the visibility of women in science.
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USAID and NASA are supporting women scientists around the world to use science and technology to improve resilience and raise the visibility of women in science.
A blog posted by Spatial Informatics Group (SIG) describes ways that the new SERVIR-Amazonia hub will bring geospatial information to assist with sustainable development problems and natural resource protection for the Amazonia region.
The SERVIR program, launched in 2005, connects NASA, U.S. researchers, a network of development partners around the world, and companies like Google to harness the power of satellite observations — helping countries see, with greater clarity, how their environments affect well-being and safety.
One of the major challenges in monitoring forests is identifying forest degradation processes. Recent years have seen advancements in satellite remote sensing technology, which has in turn revealed changed patterns of illegal deforestation activity in the Amazon rainforest.