Events

Assessment and monitoring of land cover dynamics are essential for the sustainable management of natural resources, environmental protection, and food security.

A five-day training on land cover mapping using earth observation data will be conducted at Kabul University, Afghanistan, by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in partnership with the university’s Geosciences Faculty.

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD); the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC); the Geospatial Service and Technology Center (GTAC), United States Forest Services (USFS); and SilvaCarbon are co-developing a flexible regional land cover monitoring system (RLCMS).

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), the United States Forest Services (USFS), and SilvaCarbon are co- developing a flexible regional land cover monitoring system (RLCMS).

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is collaborating with meteorological and agricultural institutions in the Hindu Kush Himalaya through its SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) and the Climate Services for Resilient Development (CSRD) initiatives to establish agricultural drought monitoring and early warning systems.

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) will conduct a five-day training of trainers on Land Cover Mapping Using Earth Observation Data at its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal. The training is part of institutional capacity building activities for partner organizations in Afghanistan under ICIMOD’s SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) initiative.

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI) are organizing a five-day regional training titled “Asia-Oceania GEOSS Network for Capacity Building and Regional Sustainable Development: Agriculture and Disaster Monitoring in the Hindu Kush Himalaya” in Kathmandu, Nepal, from 17–21 September 2018.

Geospatial Information System (GIS) mapping supports landscape mapping, smart planning, and decision-making. But fewer women work in geospatial information technologies (GIT) in Nepal than in other regional member countries in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH). To improve the gender balance in the field, SERVIR-HKH promotes capacity-building activities in GIT for women.

In collaboration with NASA Applied Science Team (AST) and national partners, SERVIR-HKH is developing a drought monitoring and early warning system to support national- and local-level planning and agro advisory services. It has developed a prototype web based application that can visualize different drought indices and their spatial distribution along with a crop calendar.

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), in partnership with the Institute of Remote Sensing, Jahangirnagar University (IRS-JU), will conduct a five-day Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform, under its SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR–HKH) initiative.