Fact Sheet: Mapping SDGs in West Africa
This fact sheet highlights the service, Building a Platform to Track Progress on SDGs and Inform Decisions in Senegal.
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This fact sheet highlights the service, Building a Platform to Track Progress on SDGs and Inform Decisions in Senegal.
In the blog Grappling with Thailand’s Seasonal Haze, NASA Earth Observatory describes their recent flights to test air quality and highlights other NASA activities working to address air quality including SERVIR.
SERVIR Southeast Asia convened nearly 100 participants from five countries, for an Inclusive Climate Action Workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand this February that included representatives of Indigenous communities, women’s groups, and even kids. Here are just a few takeaways from that week.
|Jacob Ramthun, NASA Science Coordination Office
This fact sheet highlights how the Charcoal Production Site Monitoring Service is facilitating forest degradation monitoring of charcoal production sites in Ghana.
This fact sheet highlights how SERVIR West Africa is supporting sustainable management in Burkina Faso through commune-level development planning.
NASA astronaut Colonel Frank Rubio met with more than 200 young students at the Gerardo Barrios University in San Miguel, El Salvador. In 2017, Rubio made history as the first astronaut of Salvadoran descent selected by NASA, and again in 2022 when he launched on his first spaceflight.
Mangrove forests do a lot of heavy lifting to mitigate the effects of coastal flooding. As NASA turns the spotlight on oceans this Earth Day, learn how the joint NASA-USAID SERVIR program is using Earth satellites to support these unique ecosystems that protect 15% of the world’s coasts.
|Stephanie A. Jiménez, Christine Evans, Vanesa Martín, Jacob Ramthun
The 54th annual Earth Day is on April 22, 2024. To mark the occasion, SERVIR colleagues across the globe share their reflections on caring for the Earth, climate change and other environmental issues.
SERVIR recently collaborated with the Central American Aerospace Network to lead the Jóvenes Geoespaciales (“Geospatial Youth”) workshop for 45 young students in San Miguel, El Salvador. The students used NASA Earth data and open access tools to create their own projects for local climate resilience, including maps for monitoring crop health, wildfires, and deforestation.
|Lena Pransky, NASA Science Coordination Office
At the Jóvenes Geoespaciales training in El Salvador, 45 talented young students worked in groups to use NASA satellite data and Google Earth Engine to develop projects for local climate resilience. Each group learned how to develop their own ArcGIS StoryMaps web page for displaying their data, which they can use to advocate for climate action.
|Lena Pransky, NASA Science Coordination Office