Using SERVIR’s Regional Land Cover Monitoring System to improve the integration of forest change data with other land use change at a regional scale


David Saah1, Karis Tenneson2, Kel Markert3, Ate Poortinga4, Nguyen Hanh Quyen5, Peter Potapov6, Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson7, William Ashmall8, Erik J Lindquist9, Daniel Wiell10, Khun San Aung11, Githika Tondapu12, Mir A Matin13, Kabir Uddin14, Gary Johnson15, Nicholas Clinton16 and Farrukh Chishtie11, (1)University of San Francisco, Environmental Science, San Francisco, CA, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)Researcher, Huntsville, United States, (4)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States, (5)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (6)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (7)Regional Visualization and Monitoring System (SERVIR), Huntsville, AL, United States, (8)USRA, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, (9)United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Forestry, Rome, Italy, (10)Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, (11)SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (12)NASA SERVIR - USRA, Huntsville, United States, (13)ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal, (14)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Restoring and Regenerating Landscapes, Lalitpur, Nepal, (15)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Pleasanton, United States, (16)Google Inc., Mountain View, United States