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Fire Forecasts July-September 2022 (Western Amazon)

Fire Forecasts July-September 2022 (Western Amazon)

by SERVIR Team | Aug 10, 2022 | Brazil, Drought and Fire, English, Portuguese, Spanish

July-September 2022 climate forecast points to a mild to slightly above normal fire season in western Amazon, similar to 2021

July-September 2022 climate forecast points to a mild to slightly above normal fire season in western Amazon, similar to 2021

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...
Satellite Monitoring Offers New Hope for Controlling Fires  to Curb Environmental Damage in the Amazon

Satellite Monitoring Offers New Hope for Controlling Fires to Curb Environmental Damage in the Amazon

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...
Technology, information, and geospatial data to strengthen response capacity to climate change in Barbados

Technology, information, and geospatial data to strengthen response capacity to climate change in Barbados

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...
Improving Forest Classification of the Brazilian National Forest Inventory using the CEO Platform

Improving Forest Classification of the Brazilian National Forest Inventory using the CEO Platform

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...
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