by Ana Acosta | Sep 16, 2024 | Brazil, English
Imaflora was present at the GeoforGood Mini Summit 2024 event to present the work ‘Integrating New Radar Data into Google Earth Engine (GEE) to Reveal Perennial Cultures in the Brazilian Amazon under the SERVIR-Amazonia Project’. Caroline Salomão, consultant for the...
by Ana Acosta | Jun 18, 2024 | Brazil, English
By Lena Pransky It may seem like farming is the enemy when it comes to preventing deforestation in the Amazon—and with good reason. The expansion of large-scale farming and cattle ranching is a leading cause of deforestation. However, the role of small-scale farming...
by Carmen Calle | Sep 4, 2023 | Barbados, Brazil, Caribbean, Colombia, Ecuador, English, Events, Gender, Guyana, Mangroves Monitoring, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago
Empowering women in scientific and technological areas is one of the SERVIR-Amazonia Program’s cross-cutting themes. To this end, a new workshop was held last August on the “Empowerment Women in Mangrove Forest Monitoring and Leadership”, hosted by the Alliance...
by Carmen Calle | Aug 16, 2023 | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, English, Events, Peru, Services, User engagement, Water Resources and Extreme Events
Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator and former U.S. Senator, visited the campus of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT in Palmira, Colombia in early August. Accompanied by a delegation from the space agency, representatives from the United States Agency for...
by Carmen Calle | Jun 21, 2023 | Brazil, Capacity Development, Colombia, Ecuador, English, Peru, Services, User engagement, Water Resources and Extreme Events
A series of workshops on the use of the GEOGloWS portals (jointly developed as part of the Applied Science Team or AST led by investigator Jim Nelson to provide scientific data to decision-makers) held between June 12 and 15 was given to government institutions that...
by Carmen Calle | Jun 19, 2023 | Brazil, English, Events
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has launched four new Applied Science Teams (AST) projects that the SERVIR-Amazonia Program will support over the course of 2023 to complement its conservation and climate change mitigation work in the Amazon...
