NASA and USAID Bring Earth-Observation Benefits to Africa24/11/2008 |
| NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and their international partners cut the ribbon Friday 21 November 2008 in Nairobi, Kenya, for SERVIR-Africa. The SERVIR-Africa system integrates the satellite resources of the United States and other countries into a Web-based Earth information system. This effort puts previously inaccessible information into the hands of local scientists, government leaders and communities to help address concerns related to natural disasters, disease outbreaks, biodiversity and climate change. |
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SERVIR, Spanish for "to serve," has been in operation in Central America, the Caribbean and southern Mexico since 2005. Now, through the support of multiple government agencies and other organizations, NASA and USAID are expanding the system to Africa in partnership with the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development in Nairobi. The center, an intergovernmental organization with 15 member states in eastern and southern Africa, is a leader in geospatial mapping in the region. The SERVIR system was developed with USAID by researchers at a global coordination office and rapid prototyping facility at Marshall. Three other NASA centers - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt (MD, USA), NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffet Field (CA, USA), and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena (CA, USA) -partnered with Marshall on the system. Also participating in the implementation of SERVIR-Africa is the Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology in Auburn (NY, USA)
Image: The Nzoia River basin lies entirely within the Lake Victoria basin in Kenya. The SERVIR-Africa team captured multispectral imagery of the Nzoia River basin from the NASA's EO-1 satellite on 23 August 2008 to provide baseline imagery of this frequently flooded area for future analysis.
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