Fundación EcoCiencia participated in “AmeriGEO Week 2024” from August 26 to 30 in Quito, Ecuador, an event that brings together diverse communities and establishes connections to foster collaboration between national, regional and international efforts in integrated Earth and social science research.
EcoCiencia’s participation aimed to highlight the work it develops based on the design of geospatial services, within the framework of the SERVIR Amazonia program, for better decision-making in an event that seeks to combine Earth observation data, socioeconomic data, research and science, citizen observations, ancestral knowledge and other sources of information with modeling, prediction and scenario analysis to guide decisions.
Sandra Terán at the AmeriGEO 2024 Week.
As part of the space agenda and in virtue of the visit to Ecuador, Dr. Nancy D. Searby of NASA’s Program Manager and Natalia Bermudez, NASA Inter-American Associate (Capacity Building Program), participated in the round table “Economic impact assessments of the application of GEOGLOWS in Ecuador.”
Likewise, Juseth Chancay, a technician from SERVIR Amazonia and the EcoCiencia Foundation, developed a training course on the INAMHI-GeoGlows web platform, that was developed together with the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (INAMHI), and that provides satellite information for monitoring and forecasting hydrometeorological events such as intense rainfall and floods, fires and drought.