Publications - SERVIR-HKH

Regional Drought Monitoring and Outlook System: Seasonal Outlook May–August 2023

ICIMOD
The Regional Drought Monitoring and Outlook System (RDMOS) is an operational service which produces reliable drought indicators ...
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A framework for multi-sensor satellite data to evaluate crop production losses: the case study of 2022 Pakistan floods

Faisal Mueen Qamer, Sawaid Abbas, Bashir Ahmad, Abid Hussain, Aneel Salman, Sher Muhammad, Muhammad Nawaz, Sravan Shrestha, Bilal Iqbal, Sunil Thapa
In August 2022, one of the most severe floods in the history of Pakistan was triggered due to the exceptionally high monsoon ...
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Operational in-season rice area estimation through Earth observation data in Nepal - working paper

Faisal M. Qamer, Sravan Shrestha, Kiran Shakya, Birendra Bajracharya, Shib Nandan Shah, Ram Krishna Regmi, Salik Paudel, Pragya Shrestha, Santosh Paudel, Padma Pokhrel, Liping Di, Zhiqi Yu, Sreten Cvetojevic, Liying Guo, Timothy J. Mayer, Meryl Kruskopf, Aparna Phalke
In an effort to adopt emerging technologies in food security assessment through a codevelopment approach, the Government of ...
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Using Earth observation and geospatial applications for disaster preparedness - training manual

Poonam Tripathi, Manish Shrestha, Deepak Kumar Shah, Kiran Shakya
This manual has been prepared for use by the disaster management community. It introduces remote sensing and geospatial ...
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The 2022 Pakistan floods: Assessment of crop losses in Sindh Province using satellite data

Faisal Mueen Qamer, Bashir Ahmad, Sawaid Abbas, Abid Hussain, Aneel Salman, Sher Muhammad, Muhammad Nawaz, Sravan Shrestha, Bilal Iqbal, Sunil Thapa
The impact of the 2022 floods on Pakistan’s rural communities and agriculture has been devastating, resulting in the loss ...
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Integrating gender into data services: A flexible, multidisciplinary and reflexive approach

Lalu Maya Kadel, Vishwas Sudhir Chitale , Kamala Gurung
Drawing on the concepts of Theory of Change and Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis, and our own experience of integrating ...
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Regional Drought Monitoring and Outlook System: Seasonal Outlook May-August 2022

ICIMOD
The Regional Drought Monitoring and Outlook System (RDMOS) is an operational service which produces reliable drought indicators ...
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Regional Drought Monitoring and Outlook System: Seasonal Outlook December 2021–March 2022

ICIMOD
The Regional Drought Monitoring and Outlook System (RDMOS) is an operational service which produces reliable drought indicators ...
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Closing the STEM gender gap: Training women in Earth observation and geospatial information technology

Poonam Tripathi, Rajesh Bahadur Thapa, Birendra Bajracharya, Utsav Maden
Over the next couple of decades, jobs across the globe will increasingly require digital literacy and information and ...
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Developing a hydrological monitoring and sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasting system for South and Southeast Asian river basins

Yifan Zhou, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Sujay V. Kumar, Kristi R. Arsenault, Mir A. Matin, Faisal M. Qamer, Ryan A. Zamora, Kiran Shakya
South and Southeast Asia is subject to significant hydrometeorological extremes, including drought. Under rising temperatures, ...
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