Tracking Peruvian Forest Loss from Space
Understanding the patterns and causes of forest loss over time is important for sustainable land management and for assisting in decision-making for policy and enforcement activities.
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Understanding the patterns and causes of forest loss over time is important for sustainable land management and for assisting in decision-making for policy and enforcement activities.
Forest deforestation and degradation in Latin America remains alarmingly high. One way to address this challenge is through the development of web-based monitoring and evaluation programs.
Monitoring of gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon is a service that aims to produce near real-time information on mining deforestation and activity in the Tapajos basin, State of Para.
The Spatio-temporal monitoring of the mangrove ecosystem, in collaboration with the CIIFEN, generated a Google Earth Engine code to support the monitoring of mangrove change.
The Spatio-temporal monitoring of soil water erosion service, in collaboration with the Ecuadorian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG), will generate a Google Earth Engine app to support the monitoring of soil water erosion and the analysis of its impact in the Ecuadorian Amazon basin.
For Earth Day this year, SERVIR is voicing its commitment to addressing climate change in its services. Climate change threatens sources of food and water, increase the severity and frequency of disasters, endanger critical ecosystems, and can exacerbate existing social inequities.
Users of Collect Earth Online (CEO) around the world are taking advantage of a CEO feature called the Geo-Dash Degradation Tool that allows them to monitor forest degradation, a major source of carbon emissions.
The Monitoring of Artisanal Mining (Galamsey) in Ghana Service is a monitoring platform with information on the location of illegal mining sites across Ghana and their associated land degradation.
On January 30, 2024, Administrator Samantha Power announced new initiatives to accelerate and expand programs that contribute to the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE), aimed at preparing communities and building their resilience to these perpetual and deadly climate “shocks.”
The SAR Handbook: Comprehensive Methodologies for Forest Monitoring and Biomass Estimation is the culmination of a two-year collaboration between NASA SERVIR and SilvaCarbon.