In the context of the joint statement that NASA signed with the General Secretariat of the Central American Integration System (SICA, in Spanish), the SERVIR Science Coordination Office helped coordinate a training webinar with representatives from the eight SICA countries on January 21. The training was also supported by the NASA Applied Sciences Disasters Program, the United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER), SICA’s Coordination Center for Natural Disaster Prevention in Central America (CEPREDENAC), and Planet Labs PBC.
The training focused on the use of the high spatial resolution data provided for public use by Planet, in cooperation with Norway's International Climate and Forests Initiative (NICFI). Case studies shown in the webinar explored how the data can be used for disaster management and forest monitoring, as well as processed using the Google Earth Engine platform. Almost 300 specialists from the region participated in the webinar.
