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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...

Women in GIS advance their prosperity in the workplace

by SERVIR Team | Jun 6, 2022 | Capacity Development, English, Stakeholder engagement

A group of 23 women from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana and Peru, attended the training “Advancing Women’s Prosperity in the Workplace.” This course was conducted by Arizona State University and the SERVIR-Amazonia Program with funding from SERVIR Global.

First steps for SERVIR-Amazonia in the Caribbean

by SERVIR Team | May 27, 2022 | Capacity Development, Caribbean, Climate Change, Ecosystem Management, English, Mangroves Monitoring

SERVIR-Amazonia began the second quarter of 2022 by visiting five Caribbean countries, expanding the geographic impact of its Program.

Collect Earth Online helps fight illegal mining in Amazon

by SERVIR Team | May 11, 2022 | Deforestation, English, Peru, Spanish, Stakeholder engagement

In a recent blog on the SERVIR Global Website, the co-developing service team of the Radar Mining Monitoring tool RAMI, composed by the Peruvian NGO Conservación Amazónica (ACCA), the Ministry of Environment and the Spatial Informatics Group (SIG), describes how...

Locally Led Development Drives Climate Action at the SERVIR Amazonia Hub

by SERVIR Team | May 11, 2022 | Brazil, English, Guyana, Hydro-climatic disasters, Peru, Portuguese, Spanish, Stakeholder engagement

To date, the SERVIR-Amazonia hub has been developing 11 geospatial services collaborating with more than 30 partner organizations across the Amazonia region. Read this article featuring five examples.

Colaboración con NASA-SERVIR acerca entidades peruanas cada vez más a poder reducir el riesgo de eventos hidrológicos extremos en Perú

by SERVIR Team | May 2, 2022 | English, Hydro-climatic disasters, Peru, Portuguese, Spanish, User engagement, Water Resources and Extreme Events

Los días 11 y 12 de abril Conservación Amazónica – ACCA, uno de los socios del Programa SERVIR-Amazonia, coordinó la visita del Dr. Jim Nelson, líder del Equipo de Ciencias Aplicadas y de la NASA-SERVIR, en el marco del codesarrollo del servicio sobre reducción del riesgo de eventos hidrometeorológicos.

Encuentro en Ecuador con implementadores del servicio en reducción del riesgo de eventos hidrológicos

by SERVIR Team | Apr 18, 2022 | Capacity Development, Ecuador, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Stakeholder engagement, User engagement, Water Resources and Extreme Events

Los días 7 y 8 de abril la Fundación EcoCiencia recibió en Quito, Ecuador la visita técnica de una delegación de SERVIR-Amazonia.

Potential use of TerraOnTrack by indigenous women of the Origens Brasil® network

by SERVIR Team | Mar 30, 2022 | Brazil, Ecosystem Management, English, Gender, Indigeneous People, Portuguese, Services, Spanish

Indigenous women and women of isolated rural communities express interest in using geospatial technology to protect community forests in the Brazilian Amazon

Using Geoserver for visualization, storage and web sharing of spatial data

by SERVIR Team | Mar 24, 2022 | Capacity Development, English, Services, Stakeholder engagement

The training about the use of an open source server for sharing geospatial data – Geoserver was held virtually between February 8th and 10th for members of 17 Amazonian organizations.

Applied Science Teams: The last mile towards completion of geospatial services

by SERVIR Team | Mar 24, 2022 | Brazil, Drought and Fire, Ecosystem Management, Ecuador, English, Hydro-climatic disasters, Peru, Portuguese, Services, Spanish

In their last year of collaboration with SERVIR-Amazonia, the first cohort of Applied Science Teams (ASTs) aims to complete services with partners in the Amazon. ASTs support SERVIR in developing science applications for international development through the use of...