Collect Earth Online helps fight illegal mining in Amazon
Collect Earth Online (CEO) is helping to stop illegal mining in the Peruvian Amazon, protecting primary forests and the indigenous communities who live in the region.
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Collect Earth Online (CEO) is helping to stop illegal mining in the Peruvian Amazon, protecting primary forests and the indigenous communities who live in the region.
The Geospatial Applications for Protected Area Alerts and Crop Maps service aims to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and improve the livelihoods of local communities. To do this, SERVIR SEA develops user-friendly decision support tools for monitoring forest clearance activities.
At Google’s Geo for Good (G4G) Summit 2023 in Mountain View, California, SERVIR scientists explained how and its collaborators are using artificial intelligence (AI) get more out of Earth data.
| Jake Ramthun, Biplov Bhandari, and Tim Mayer, NASA Science Coordination Office
SERVIR-Mekong, along with SilvaCarbon, the US Forest Service and SIG, hosted a Google Earth Engine Training and a second workshop for the Regional Land Cover Monitoring System from 7-14 July 2016.
According to the World Wildlife Fund, over 2 billion people rely on forests for shelter, livelihoods, water, food, and fuel security. Forests even help renew our air supply, as they take in large amounts of carbon dioxide and release oxygen.
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.
Monitoring land cover and land use change is important for land resource planning, maintaining ecosystem services, and for building resilience to climate change.
The Mapping with Radar in Imbabura service brings Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and other remote sensing resources to map land cover of the province of Imbabura in Ecuador.
The Monitoring Forest Dynamics to Enable Biodiversity Conservation in the Amazon service - now completed - helped introduce "TerraBio," a monitoring tool to assess the impact of private sector engagement on biodiversity conservation in the Amazon.