On 5/6-10/23, a delegation from the SERVIR Science Coordination Office visited ITC (the faculty of Geo-information and Earth Observation at the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands). ITC has been SERVIR’s premier university partner since NASA and ITC signed a memorandum of understanding in 2018 to last ten years. The delegation included Ashutosh Limaye, Robert Griffin, Kelsey Herndon, Tim Mayer (ST11), and Micky Maganini.
During the trip, the SERVIR SCO met with high-level ITC personnel to better facilitate a path for SERVIR hub employees to obtain a professional degree at ITC, develop a framework for hub employees to build their own capacity while working full time, as well as to energize joint research between ITC and SERVIR hubs. Furthermore, Herndon and Maganini met with five ITC professors that have been collaborating with SERVIR over the past year to integrate four SERVIR tools (ClimateSERV, Collect Earth Online, HYDRAFloods, and Radar Mining Monitoring - RAMI) in four separate courses at ITC, all of which are a part of ITC’s M-GEO (Master’s in Geo-information Science and Earth Observation) program. In meetings with these professors, SERVIR personnel gathered feedback and planned for the next phase of the project in the coming academic year.
