From 3/13-16/23, SERVIR Amazonia (SAMZ) held a GIT Exchange at the Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) campus in Cali, Colombia. Among the participants were members of the SERVIR Science Coordination Office (SCO), including Vanesa Martin, Stephanie Jimenez, Christine Evans, and Alexandre Goberna. Francisco Delgado attended the event virtually. During the event, updates on SAMZ services and troubleshooting discussions were led by members of the SAMZ hub consortium, such as Brazilian NGO Imaflora, Ecuadoran NGO Ecociencia, and the Spatial Informatics Group (SIG). Other presenters included SAMZ-funded consultants at the Colombian hydrometeorological agency, Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (IDEAM), as well as Applied Sciences Team Principal Investigator Naiara Pinto (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory). Outcomes from the event included actionable steps to upload scripts and data in various formats to relevant SAMZ platforms, such as Github, Geonetwork, Harvard Dataverse, and the cloud service SOCRATES that is managed by SIG and SCO. Streamlining these workflows will ensure the open sharing of the data behind the services that the hub provides and will also strengthen the long-term sustainability of the data. Moreover, it may alleviate computational demands from hub consortium members, who can employ virtual machines and other features of SOCRATES servers dedicated to SAMZ rather than relying on or being limited by the resources of their home institutions.
