by SERVIR Team | Aug 4, 2022 | English
Fires in the Amazon are the result of human activities that (usually) begin with slash and burn practices to clear the land for the introduction of agro-pastoral activities. For most part, fires occur over non-forest landscapes but can escape to standing forest edges...
by SERVIR Team | Jul 28, 2022 | English
A new approach for using satellite data to track and classify fires in and around the Amazon represents a major breakthrough in responding to the hundreds or thousands of fires occurring each day at the peak of the region’s fire season. Because these fires are a major...
by SERVIR Team | Jul 27, 2022 | English
On July 27, the SERVIR-Amazonia Program organized a User Needs Assessment Workshop in Barbados to discuss how geospatial information can be used to improve environmental decision-making. This workshop is part of an expansion of SERVIR-Amazonia’s work in the Caribbean...
by SERVIR Team | Jun 10, 2022 | Brazil, Capacity Development, English
The Brazilian Forest Service (Serviço Florestal Brasileiro-SFB) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently held a hybrid workshop to support the Brazilian National Forest Inventory (IFN-BR) in its effort of forest...
