Emil Cherrington, Jacob Abramowitz, Kelsey Herndon, Diana West, and Christine Evans from the SERVIR Science Coordination Office (SCO) traveled to Accra, Ghana, to participate in the SERVIR West Africa Strategy Meetings and General Assembly and to deliver various trainings on Geospatial Information Technology (supported remotely by the SCO GIT team), on Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI), and land change monitoring, carbon estimation, and accuracy assessments in support of REDD+ (including the SERVIR CArbon Pilot).
The strategic meetings involved SCO, hub consortium members, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/West Africa, and SERVIR Applied Sciences Team (AST) members, for a review of FY23 service progress and planning for FY24, with extensive discussion on service assessment and advancement.
This culminated in the General Assembly, a high-level meeting of consortium institution executives. The land change monitoring training was also supported in-person by AST members Katelyn Tarrio, Luofan Dong, Pontus Olofsson, and Aditya Singh. This training focused on building the capacity of the Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services (CERSGIS), a SERVIR West Africa consortium organization based in Accra, to use time series methods for change detection.
