From Space to Village: An Overview of
SERVIR’s Forest Monitoring Resources
June 19, 2019
Glenn Hyman, SERVIR-Amazonia, SIG
Kelsey Herndon, NASA
Farrukh Chishtie, SERVIR Mekong
Matt Finer, Amazon Conservation Association
Vinicius de Faria, SERVIR-Amazonia, Imaflora
Felipe José Cerignoni SERVIR-Amazonia, Imaflora

The SERVIR Hub Network
CIAT
Five SERVIR Hubs around the world

Service PlanningFour tools:
Consultation and
Needs Assessment
Stakeholder Mapping
Service Design
Monitoring, Evaluation
and Learning

Developed in
partnership with:
▸ Open-source, viewing
and interpretation system
▸ Promotes consistency in
reference data
▸ Simultaneous data entry
with compilation of user
databases implemented
online
▸ Integrated SEPAL and GEE
▸ Codebase is shared
▸ No need for desktop
installation
Collect Earth Online

5
173
8
• Five RLCMS workshops in Lower Mekong and Himalaya
regions (>250 participants) – a key challenge: GEE coding
• 12 Google Earth Engine ToT trainings in Thailand, Cambodia,
Myanmar, Viet Nam
• UMD training “Implementing GLAD system for forest cover change
monitoring in the Mekong region”
• Training materials are developed and translated to national
languages
• Four services are being developed:
• Myanmar: IPCC & FRA reporting
• Vietnam: Crop Type Mapping
• Mekong River Commission: Updating and Harmonizing Land Cover and
Use maps across the Lower Mekong Basin
• Ecuador greenhouse gas monitoring
Capacity building and collaboration

SAR Handbook: Comprehensive Methodologies
for Forest Monitoring and Biomass Estimation
▷ Freely-available eBook, interactive pdfs, and training
modules; result of a 2-year joint collaboration between NASA
SERVIR & SilvaCarbon
▷ Applied content, hands-on trainings to get started using
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for forest monitoring,
biomass estimation, mangrove extent, time-series analysis
▷ Authored by world-renowned SAR experts from the NISAR
Science Team, US Forest Service, academia
▷ Reviewed and tested by the SERVIR-Global network
▷ Downloadable open-source scripts and sample datasets for
a variety of forestry applications; useful for beginners to
experts
Download the SAR Handbook here: https://bit.ly/2UHZtaw
SAR Handbook training modules and more: https://bit.ly/2GeKvAN
For more information, visit the SERVIR booth and website @
SERVIRglobal.net
Contact: Africa Flores-Anderson (Africa.flores@nasa.gov)
Selected pages from Chp 6:
Radar Remote Sensing of Mangrove
Forests (by Dr. Marc Simard, Sr.
Scientist & mangrove specialist, NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

SAR Handbook Materials Have Had Global Reach
Top countries by Handbook
materials accessed:
1. U.S.A.
2. Germany
3. China
4. Spain
5. France
14,280
9,615
8,543
6,142
5,175
Top countries currently covered by SERVIR:
Country SERVIR Region Access
1. Brazil
2. Kenya
3. Colombia
4. Vietnam
5. Peru
6. Nepal
7. Bangladesh
8. Myanmar
9. Pakistan
10. Ecuador
Amazonia
E&S Africa
Amazonia
Mekong
Amazonia
HKH
HKH
HKH/Mekong
HKH
Amazonia
3,903
3,586
2,448
2,273
1,674
1,668
1,426
1,262
1,137
1,047
Between April 10 – May 5, 2019
• The full Handbook has been accessed more than 103,000 times
• Full Handbook and additional materials have been accessed more than 136,000 times
• 149 countries have accessed SAR Handbook and complementary materials
SERVIR Amazonia
SERVIR
West Africa
SERVIR
Eastern and Southern
Africa
SERVIR
Hindu Kush Himalaya
SERVIR Mekong

Stakeholders need to stop deforestation before too much damage is done
In Peru, Ministry
technical staff send new
data to forest rangers
every 2 weeks
Pantropical forest loss detection;
available on Terra-I site and
Global Forest Watch
National level: Landsat 7&8;
Sentinel 1&2; Global
Precipitation Measurement

Near real-time deforestation monitoring initiative
We transform
Landsat, Planet, Digital
Globe, Sentinel and
PeruSAT-1
Stakeholders need technical information in a timely manner and in an easy to understand
format
Policy
Makers
Media
Public
at
Large
Civil
society
Researchers
• Historic Deforestation
• Multiannual analysis
• Synthesis Reports.

http://timberflow.org.br/
Government and civil society
need to confirm legal timber
trade and reduce ilegal trade
TimberFlow tracks
the value chain

Thank you…..