Client: U.S. Agency for International Development
Duration: 2012-2015
Region: Worldwide
Country: Worldwide
Solutions: Climate Environment
Satellites photograph the world, providing a world of information. DAI helped use this information to help countries prepare for and mitigate the effects of climate change and natural and manmade disasters.
Established in 2004 by NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and others, SERVIR provides a web-based geospatial platform for sharing, integrating, and mapping climate data from satellite imagery.
This data pertains to numerous adverse climate conditions and has multiple uses, including forecasting of weather, floods, and fires; monitoring of fires, air quality, ocean chlorophyll, coral reefs, and snowmelt; and assessment of post-disaster and biodiversity conditions, and changes to land cover.
Current SERVIR hubs operate in Nairobi and Kathmandu, and hubs serving West Africa and Southeast Asia are being developed, but these hubs do not have effective systems for marketing their data. DAI helped turn this robust information platform into a product- and service-oriented operation, whereby the regional hubs create climate-data products and services for public and private clients.
DAI’s work entailed four main areas—mapping of regional market demand, product development, marketing and outreach, and planning for sustainability.
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