12 Aug 2024
10 Jan 2022
This piece is part of a series of reflective blogs written by women from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Pakistan who ...
14 May 2021
30 Aug 2017
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC), and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement ...
28 Mar 2017
A training course titled “Application of Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for the Mapping and Monitoring of ...
4 Sep 2014
Kezang Gaden and Tenzin have made their college proud by winning the Best Student Presenter award and first runner-up prize, ...
13 Nov 2024
Agenda About the workshop National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDDRMA), Nepal and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain ...
20 Sep 2024
Agenda About the training The SERVIR-HKH project of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), in partnership with Ministry ...
About the training The SERVIR-HKH Initiative, a joint initiative of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), the United ...
19 Aug 2024
Agenda About the training The SERVIR-HKH Initiative, a joint initiative of ICIMOD, USAID and NASA, is working on developing information ...
3 Jun 2024
About the workshop The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and Forest Research and Training Centre (FRTC) are jointly ...
3 May 2024
Register here About the programme This talk programme will highlight NASA’s Earth observation and satellite technology, showcasing how these tools ...
1 May 2024
Agenda About the training The SERVIR-HKH Initiative of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is organising a two-day ...
30 Apr 2024
About the training The SERVIR-HKH Initiative of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is organising a two-day training ...
About the training The SERVIR-HKH Initiative of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is organising a one-day workshop ...
17 Apr 2024
Agenda About the training Within the framework of SERVIR-HKH, Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD) and ICIMOD are jointly organising a training ...
5 Apr 2024
Download Agenda About the training The Geographic Information System (GIS) and Statistics Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock ...
27 Feb 2024
About the training The GIS and Statistics Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD), Nepal and ICIMOD’s ...
26 Jan 2024
Organiser: MoALD in collaboration with ICIMOD About the training The GIS and Statistics Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture and ...
17 Aug 2023
17 Jul 2023
About the training Our SERVIR-HKH Initiative and SilvaCarbon are organising a training workshop on improving forest carbon estimation and degradation ...
14 Jun 2023
About the workshop ICIMOD is organising a week-long training on the digitisation of field data. The Government of Nepal (GoN) ...
29 May 2023
About the training Our SERVIR-HKH initiative is collaborating with GIZ-Bangladesh to organise this training on geographic information system (GIS) applications ...
7 Feb 2023
We have awarded grants to four institutions to implement projects in Nepal and Pakistan under our SERVIR-HKH Small Grants Programme. ...
19 Jan 2023
Nepal faces a double whammy of floods and landslides every year. Often considered a secondary hazard, landslides are usually triggered ...
17 Jan 2023
This article first appeared on The Daily Sun on 15 January 2023 and is available here. Another version in Bengali ...
13 Dec 2022
This piece was first published on appliedsciences.nasa.gov on 27 October 2022. In the Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountain ranges, the ...
20 Nov 2022
This article first appeared on The Daily Sun on 18 November 2022 and is available here. The pristine, verdant slopes ...
9 Sep 2022
The impact of the 2022 floods on Pakistan’s rural communities and agriculture has been devastating, resulting in the loss of ...
31 Aug 2022
About the workshop We are organising a production workshop focused on the technology transfer and capacity building of the Forest ...
21 Aug 2022
Kathmandu, 22 April: The Forest Research and Training Centre (FRTC) is pleased to announce the launch of Nepal’s National Land ...
25 Jul 2022
The High-Impact Weather Assessment Toolkit (HIWAT) for Bhutan uses a mesoscale numerical weather prediction model and the Global Precipitation Measurement ...
The High-Impact Weather Assessment Toolkit (HIWAT) for Bangladesh uses a mesoscale numerical weather prediction model and the Global Precipitation Measurement ...
The High-Impact Weather Assessment Toolkit (HIWAT) for Nepal uses a mesoscale numerical weather prediction model and the Global Precipitation Measurement ...
5 Jul 2022
Assessment of floods in Nepal in October 2021, which affected seed availability, gives clues about actions to mitigate the impact ...
3 Jun 2022
Organizers: Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) and International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) Register here About the event As ...
11 May 2022
Bangladesh’s Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC), under the Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), shoulders a gargantuan task. In April ...
6 May 2022
The cryosphere – snow, ice, and permafrost – is an important source of water in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. Observed ...
21 Apr 2022
On 30 March 2022, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) launched the High-Impact Weather Assessment Toolkit (HIWAT) at its headquarters in ...
20 Apr 2022
EXPLORE APPLICATION Nepal’s National Land Cover Monitoring System (NLCMS) was developed by the Forest Research and Training Centre (FRTC) with ...
25 Feb 2022
This blog was first published on ClimateLinks on 2 February 2022 and is available here. With rapidly growing cities, high ...
14 Feb 2022
SECTION I) Programme description II) Award information III) Eligibility information IV) Application and submission information V) Application review information VI) ...
19 Jan 2022
About the training ICIMOD’s SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) initiative and the REDD Implementation Centre (REDD IC) at the Ministry ...
Earth observation (EO) and geospatial information technology (GIT) are steadily making inroads across major disciplines of study, and this has ...
5 Jan 2022
Global food security is a complex issue and is expected to worsen due to population growth and other emerging issues ...
16 Dec 2021
About the training In collaboration with the Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Jahangirnagar University, we are organizing a technical ...
13 Dec 2021
About the workshop In collaboration with the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC)/Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) in Bangladesh, we ...
28 Sep 2021
EXPLORE APPLICATION The Regional Land Cover Monitoring System (RLCMS) for the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region is an operational service ...
15 Sep 2021
About the event We invite partners, stakeholders, and alumni to the public launch event of the Regional Land Cover Monitoring ...
7 Sep 2021
ICIMOD’s SERVIR-HKH Initiative, a joint initiative of USAID and NASA, is working on developing a landslide monitoring and forecast system ...
About the workshop Capitalizing on recent advancements in artificial intelligence, Earth Observation big data, and cloud-computing platforms, the Pakistan Agricultural ...
About the workshop The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the University of Alaska Fairbanks are organizing an ...
23 Jul 2021
Regional knowledge forum on Early warning for floods and high-impact weather events 22–23 October 2019 | ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal Background ...
Call for Abstracts The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), under the ...
Regional Knowledge Forum on Drought Earth Observation and Climate Services for Food Security and Agricultural Decision Making in South and ...
29 Jun 2021
The High-Impact Weather Assessment Toolkit (HIWAT) uses a mesoscale numerical weather prediction model and the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) constellation ...
23 Jun 2021
I provide scientific leadership to the Geospatial Solutions Theme and lead the Science and Data Theme under the SERVIR-HKH initiative ...
Sudan Bikash Maharjan joined ICIMOD as a Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analyst in September 2009 and is ...
As a Remote Sensing and Geo-information Analyst with our Geospatial Solutions Theme, my role is to research, collect and integrate data ...
3 May 2021
Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries in the world – almost three times as dense as India. ...
26 Apr 2021
Background The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) contains the largest reservoir of ice and snow outside the Earth’s polar ice sheets. ...
5 Apr 2021
Background Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+) is an approach to address conservation, sustainable management ...
19 Mar 2021
An RGB representation (VH as a red band, VH as a green band, and VH/VV as a blue band) of ...
2 Mar 2021
Background The UN Sustainable Development Goal 2 (“zero hunger”) aims to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and ...
22 Feb 2021
Background In October 2019, the GEO Ministerial Summit formally announced Himalayan Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) as Task ...
3 Dec 2020
This blog was first published in Climate Links on 2 December 2020. Resource people and participants involved in the ...
13 Nov 2020
This op-ed was first published in the print edition of The Himalayan Times on 6 November 2020. Data has become a ...
8 Sep 2020
After successfully conducting the empowering women in geospatial information technology (GIT) training in Nepal, we rolled out the virtual ...
After successfully conducting the empowering women in geospatial information technology (GIT) training in Nepal, we rolled out the virtual training ...
14 Jul 2020
Frequent transformative developments in the fields of Earth observation (EO) and geospatial information technology (GIT) build more possibilities in the ...
11 Jun 2020
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) identifies droughts as one of the major climate risks ...
5 Jun 2020
Twenty-five women from across Nepal and Australia joined in on morning conference calls for four days in May 2020 with ...
13 Mar 2020
When my supervisor asked me if I wanted to work on a project that would require me to travel frequently ...
18 Feb 2020
Attending the American Geophysical Union (AGU) is a huge opportunity for a geospatial scientist. The annual AGU Fall Meeting is ...
6 Dec 2019
The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is no stranger to water- and weather-induced hazards. Every year, these disasters result in ...
24 Oct 2019
SERVIR connects space to village by helping developing countries use satellite data to address challenges in food security, water resources, ...
23 Aug 2019
Nepal’s forestry sector prioritizes reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) and associated activities. The Government of Nepal’s REDD ...
30 Jul 2019
Droughts do not harm immediately. Their impact on lives and productive assets is gradual, which is perhaps why they do ...
29 Jul 2019
ICIMOD is collaborating with meteorological and agricultural institutions in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) through its SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya ...
12 Jul 2019
New paradigms in Earth observation (EO) science and advancements in geospatial information technology (GIT)–enhanced by the omnipresence of the internet–have ...
10 May 2019
Inaugural session of the training underway (Photo: Kabir Uddin/ICIMOD) The Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD) analyzes and uses land cover data ...
8 Jan 2019
Glaciers are natural renewable solid reservoirs of freshwater and the only source of freshwater in the high mountains during the ...
3 Jan 2019
Earth observation (EO) technologies have tremendous potential in supporting the implementation of long-term and large-scale research and development ...
11 Oct 2018
(Kathmandu, 10 October 2018) Increasing frequency and severity of droughts have affected agriculture, food security, and the livelihoods of millions ...
23 Aug 2018
Forest fires have adverse ecological and economic effects and are a major concern in many countries, including Nepal. During the ...
3 Jul 2018
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL), Afghanistan, ...
2 Jul 2018
The monitoring of glaciers and glacial lakes in Afghanistan is at a nascent stage. While a few studies on glaciers ...
4 Jun 2018
The International Centre for Integrated MountainDevelopment (ICIMOD), in partnership with theInstitute of Remote Sensing, JahangirnagarUniversity (IRS-JU), will conduct a five-day ...
14 May 2018
There is no remote sensing instrument to monitor snow water equivalent at useful spatial and/or temporal resolutions in the Hindu ...
18 Apr 2018
Glaciers are a key indicator of climate change. Understanding past and present glacier behavior and analyzing possible changes help us ...
15 Apr 2018
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT)–Bangladesh, in collaboration with ...
13 Apr 2018
Google Earth Engine (GEE) is a cloud-computing platform used for powerful remote sensing analysis across space and time. It can ...
9 Apr 2018
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) will conduct a five-day training workshop on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) ...
3 Apr 2018
The Agriculture Information Portal (AIP) provides a gateway to geo-information data and application tools. The AIP facilitates the sharing of ...
2 Apr 2018
Agriculture is one of the important livelihood sector in the HKH region and provides a substantial proportion of rural income ...
9 Mar 2018
SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya The SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) initiative of ICIMOD connects space to villages by generating geospatial ...
12 Feb 2018
The SERVIR-Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) and REDD+ initiatives of ICIMOD, in collaboration with SilvaCarbon, are organizing a five-day regional training ...
22 Jan 2018
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting is the largest earth and space science meeting that brings together science communities from ...
18 Jan 2018
The comprehensive baseline information on the glaciers of the entire Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region have been organized by major ...
30 Nov 2017
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) recently launched a new online Food ...
11 Sep 2017
Within the framework of the global SERVIR program, the overall objective of SERVIR-HKH is to increase sustainable use of Earth ...
20 Aug 2017
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), in partnership with the Institute of Remote Sensing, Jahangirnagar University (IRS-JU), will ...
17 Aug 2017
The northern region of Bangladesh has been facing increasing agricultural droughts which can lead to reduce the productivity of farming ...
30 Jun 2017
The current and future impact of climate change on water availability in the Hindu Kush Himalaya is a great concern, ...
23 Jun 2017
The Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) project, Building Resilience to Climate Related Hazards, Ministry of Population and Environment (MOPE), ...
7 Jun 2017
Thirty-eight participants—13 of them women—from Nepal and Kenya, convened for a four-day training workshop on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) ...
2 Jun 2017
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), home to SERVIR-Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) in Nepal, and Mercy Corps Nepal ...
22 May 2017
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), in partnership with Google Earth Engine Outreach, will conduct a four-day training ...
16 May 2017
The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) is highly dynamic as there are many socioeconomic and environmental drivers of change at play, ...
20 Apr 2017
The workshop will bring together members of the SERVIR Applied Science Team (AST) and select partners from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, ...
30 Jan 2017
The Sentinel Program is a joint effort between the European Space Agency and the European Commission to replace and/or continue ...
21 Nov 2016
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) identifies drought as one of the major climate risks ...
22 Feb 2016
A one day Country Consultation workshop on SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya Needs Assessment was jointly organised with Pakistan Council of ...
15 Oct 2015
Forest biomass is the sum of the above ground living organic material contained in trees, which is expressed as dry ...
4 Oct 2015
Bangladesh is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to floods, which kill and displace a huge number of people ...
24 Sep 2015
Every year, the rainy season in the Chittagong Metropolitan Area (CMA), Bangladesh brings news of human causalities and property damage ...
The study of forest above-ground biomass (AGB) for estimating the carbon stock in each tree is important, as it is ...
Strengthening the capacity of satellite-based flood forecasting using near real time Jason-2 satellite altimeter data under SERVIR-Himalaya Small Grants Programme, ...
Every year, the rainy season in the Chittagong Metropolitan Area (CMA), Bangladesh brings news of human causalities and property ...
22 Sep 2015
The Digital Agriculture Atlas of Nepal takes data closer to decision makers by providing a one-stop shop for information related ...
13 Sep 2015
Over the years, the approach to natural disasters has changed from response and relief to risk reduction, with policy focusing ...
The South Asian Forum for Environment (SAFE) intervention on forest fire, with support from ICIMOD’s SERVIR-Himalaya Small Grants Programme, has two ...
In Bangladesh, where numerous tributaries from the Himalayas meet the Bay of Bengal, flooding is not uncommon. However, despite the ...
9 Sep 2015
The project ‘Engaging Local Citizens to Map Environmental, Agriculture and Food Security Data’ explores the use of free and open ...
Using ecological niche modelling to guide farmers and the Government of Nepal. Banana is a high-value agricultural product and a ...
26 Aug 2015
The Digital Agriculture Atlas of Nepal prepared jointly by the Ministry of Agriculture Development (MOAD) and the International Centre for ...
10 Aug 2015
The SERVIR-Himalaya Initiative of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) organized a five-day training on SERVIR science applications ...
24 Jul 2015
The South Asian Forum for Environment (SAFE) intervention on forest fire,with support from ICIMOD’s SERVIR-Himalaya Small Grants Programme, has two strong mandates: ...
23 Jul 2015
14 Jul 2015
Under its SERVIR-Himalaya Initiative, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has supported 14 research grants and small scale ...
1 Jul 2015
The SERVIR-Himalaya programme works in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region to build capacity of regional institutions including governments, non-government, ...
Community members from Pragati, Jamuna, and Jana Pragati community forests in the Kayar Khola watershed of Nepal can now successfully ...
27 Mar 2015
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) hosted the SERVIR Hub Exchange Programme from 10–13 March 2015. During the ...
23 Dec 2014
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Institute of Water Modelling (IWM) successfully concluded a two-day midterm ...
24 Nov 2014
Climate change is one of the most critical global concerns of this generation. The impact of climate change on the ...
21 Nov 2014
A three-day advanced training on remote sensing (RS) techniques ended on 7 November 2014. Participants learned about specific remote sensing ...
18 Nov 2014
Her Majesty Jetsuen Pema Wangchuck, Queen of Bhutan, launched the National Geospatial Portal during the Bhutan GIS Expo in Thimphu ...
3 Nov 2014
The purpose of this workshop is to provide forum to bring scientists together to discuss land cover land use change ...
23 Jun 2014
After 10 months of research and fieldwork, four students from Nepal, Bhutan, and India, whose projects had been selected for ...
5 May 2014
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) will hold the SERVIR Himalaya Youth Forum titled ‘Empowering Youth with Earth Observation ...
10 Mar 2014
A SERVIR-Himalaya Youth forum titled ‘Empowering Youth with Earth Observation Information for Climate Actions in Nepal’ was held at Asian ...
5 Mar 2014
16 Dec 2013
Climate change is the singular defining environmental issue of our times affecting every segment of society in one way or ...
6 Nov 2013
Climate change in Bhutan is manifesting itself in the formation of dangerous glacial lakes and the increased occurrence of landslides, ...
6 Jun 2013
Experts from ICIMOD contributed to ’Training on Space Technology for Flood Hazard Mapping, Flood Forecast, and Rapid Mapping in Bangladesh’ ...
6 May 2013
The NASA/USAID-funded SERVIR Applied Science Team has established ICIMOD as a primary data node. One project in the programme led ...
3 May 2013
NASA International Space Apps Challenge: Kathmandu Hackathon,a 48-hour event organized by YoungInnovations and ICIMOD within the framework of the SERVIR-Himalaya ...