Cambodian Youth Learn and Connect Geospatial Pieces
For a second year, the SERVIR-Mekong program held an exhibition booth as part of the U.S. Government pavilion at Cambodia’s Science and Engineering Festival Exposition and Workshop (CSEF).
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For a second year, the SERVIR-Mekong program held an exhibition booth as part of the U.S. Government pavilion at Cambodia’s Science and Engineering Festival Exposition and Workshop (CSEF).
Lower Mekong countries suffer from the effects of seasonal flooding and flash flooding caused by monsoon rains and tropical storms. Regional and national level organizations and agencies require a range of information, forecasts, and decision-support tools to better prepare for, monitor, issue warnings, and respond to flood risk.
The new Hydrologic Remote Sensing Analysis for Floods (HYDRAFloods) service, co-developed by SERVIR-Mekong consortium members and the SERVIR Science Coordination Office, improves the frequency and resolution of map updates.
Collecting Earth observations over tropical forests comes with logistical challenges. While protection of these often highly-vulnerable ecosystems is critical to combating climate change, heavy cloud cover and the cost of granular-level data mean that frequent, quality forest cover imagery can be a rare and valuable resource.
The United States Agency for International Development's Regional Development Mission for Asia (USAID/RDMA) recently released "Commodity-Driven Forest Loss: A Study of Southeast Asia," a report exploring trade-offs between agricultural production and forest conservation.
Monitoring forest loss remotely makes it difficult to formulate policies and strategies to address deforestation. Currently, rangers spend long periods of time patrolling forests to monitor forest health and checking for illegal logging and land clearances.
On Tuesday January 24, 2023, the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Robert F. Godec and Dr. Karen M. St. Germain, Earth Science Division Director at NASA launched the SERVIR-Southeast Asia program.
|USAID Regional Development Mission for Asia
To sustainably manage forest landscapes, governments and decision makers need accurate and up-to-date information on the extent of the forests they manage and the ways they are changing.