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SERVIR: A 21st Century System for Improved Environmental Decision Making in Mesoamerica

SERVIR Huntsville, Alabama Facility
SERVIR Staff at CATHALAC

SERVIR is a regional visualization and monitoring system for Mesoamerica that integrates satellite and other geospatial data for improved scientific knowledge and decision making by managers, researchers, students, and the general public. SERVIR addresses the nine societal benefit areas of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS): disasters, ecosystems, biodiversity, weather, water, climate, oceans, health, agriculture, and energy. For example, SERVIR can be used to monitor and forecast ecological changes and severe events such as forest fires, red tides, and tropical storms.

SERVIR headquarters are located at the Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC) in the Republic of Panama. A test bed and rapid prototyping SERVIR facility is managed by the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center at the National Space Science and Technology Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

SERVIR implementing agencies include NASA, CATHALAC, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Central American Commission for Environment and Development (CCAD), the World Bank, the Nature Conservancy, and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP-ROLAC) and IAGT. Private sector Partners include Cable and Wireless Panama and EGE Fortuna S.A.. Other SERVIR key partners can be found on the SERVIR partners page.

The bilingual SERVIR website http://servir.net provides free and open access to:

  1. Satellite and Other Geospatial Datasets
    • Search, browse, and download geospatial data and metadata from the SERVIR Data Portal http://maps.cathalac.org/Portal.html
  2. Interactive Online Maps
    • View live maps from dozens of Web Map Services on the SERVIR Data Portal
    • View, animate, and download near real-time satellite feeds of regional weather and ecological conditions on the SERVIR Realtime Image Viewer
  3. Thematic Decision Support Tools
    • Receive real-time and near real time updates on fires, floods, red tides, and weather conditions
    • Browse from a selection of customized regional climate change, land cover, and ecological data products
  4. 3D Interactive Visualizations
    • Compare real-time visualizations of weather and other phenomenon with framework data layers using the SERVIR-VIZ" our free, downloadable 3D Earth Viewer

Utilizing our flagship products (the SERVIR Data Portal, the SERVIR Realtime Image Viewer, and SERVIR-VIZ), users can search, browse, download, and visualize information from a variety of national, regional and global geospatial sources concerning disasters, environment, weather, climate, water, health, and other key thematic areas. The SERVIR team at CATHALAC is also equipped to prepare custom analyses, visualizations, GIS implementation, and educational products and services. Please visit the User's Manual page for more information about this website. Visit the directory or contact us for further inquiries.