Workshop: Saving Species on the Edge of Extinction: Building Capacity to

Find and Protect the Mekong’s Most Imperiled Wildlife

Phnom Penh, 14-15 November 2017

Conservation of Imperiled Species In the Mekong Region:

New Opportunities for Leveraging Geospatial Data

Pete CutterSERVIR-Mekong

and

Spatial Informatics Group

Partnership between USAID and NASA

Establishes long-term regional hubs to get geo-spatial information and tools to decision makers

Works with partners to facilitate the effective use of earth observation and other geospatial data for better decision support

WHAT IS SERVIR?

Food Security

Weather & Climate

Water Resources & Disasters

Land Cover / Use &

Ecosystems

Information Availability and Access

Used together, forest structure information from LiDAR

and hyperspectral reflectance data can discern canopy

tree species to the genus and sometimes species aiding

biodiversity survey and carbon stock estimation

objectives.

> 200 public datasets

MODISDaily, NBAR, LST, ...

TerrainSRTM, GTOPO, NED,

...

AtmosphericNOAA NCEP, OMI, ...

Land CoverGlobCover, NLCD, ...

The Earth Engine Public Data Catalog

> 4000 new images every day

> 5 million images > 5 petabytes of data

Landsat 4, 5, 7, 8Raw, TOA, SR, ...

... and many more, updating daily!

Tools and Technologies

Participation

Communication

servir.adpc.net

Thanks!