Out in Front: How SERVIR's Locally Led Development is Driving Climate Action
Much of the world is already experiencing the negative effects of climate change, and it is disproportionately impacting the world's most marginalized populations.
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Much of the world is already experiencing the negative effects of climate change, and it is disproportionately impacting the world's most marginalized populations.
Nestled in between soaring green mountains, Guatemala’s Lake Atitlán is renowned as one of the most beautiful lakes in the world. It has also been under threat by massive blooms of algae clotting its pristine waters. In 2009 and 2015, massive “blooms” of algae threatened to cause severe ecological damage.
|Jacob Ramthun, SERVIR Science Coordination Office
Forest rangers in one of Cambodia’s largest remaining forests now get deforestation alerts based on NASA satellite data.
|Ankit Joshi, SERVIR Southeast Asia and Jacob Ramthun, SERVIR Science Coordination Office
More than 50 million people in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar draw water for drinking and agriculture from the Mekong River.
|Jacob Ramthun, SERVIR Science Coordination Office
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.
Through SERVIR, USAID and NASA play a key role in supporting the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE). Our work was recently highlighted in the new White House publication “Helping the World PREPARE: A Primer on U.S. International Adaptation and Resilience.”
In this miniseries, we explore why gender matters in applied Earth science, and how we can integrate gender more intentionally into geospatial work.
|Lena Pransky, Diana Kurkovsky West, and Emily Adams | NASA Science Coordination Office
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
The end of one year and the start of the next provides an opportunity to reflect on past achievements and future goals. In 2023, the SERVIR network worked with local partners in the design and implementation of numerous geospatial services to address complex challenges related to climate change.
The USAID Regional Development Mission for Asia and Thailand International Cooperation Agency, along with other regional partner in Thailand in Lao PDR launched today a trilateral Transboundary Air Quality Management Project.