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NASA Capacity Building Program

Programs

  • ARSET: Online and in-person trainings for beginners and advanced practitioners that cover a range of datasets, web portals, and analysis tools and their application to air quality, agriculture, disasters, climate, land, and water resources management
  • SERVIR: Joint development initiative between NASA and USAID that works with a global network of partners to connect local decision-makers with tools, training and services to act on issues like disasters, agriculture, water management and land use
  • DEVELOP: Workforce development program that partners students/early career professionals with partner organizations complete 10-week feasibility studies that apply NASA EO to environmental and policy challenges
  • Indigenous Peoples Initiative: Builds relationships across NASA and Indigenous communities through place-based remote sensing training, community engagement, and co-production of knowledge
  • Prizes and Challenges: Crowdsource ideas, technologies, scientific advances, and other “solutions” from people around the world through incentivized competitions

Upcoming Activities

  • EOTEC DevNet Regional Meetings (March 16-17, virtual)
  • ARSET CY23 Work Planning (summer of 2022)
  • Year of Open Source Science (2023)

Resources

  • ARSET trainings: archive of past trainings
  • NASA Applied Sciences Website: more information about each program

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Example: United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

Programs relevant to Earth Observation

  • UN-SPIDER: United Nations Platform for Space-Based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response. it aims at improving actions to reduce disaster risk or support disaster response operations through knowledge sharing and the strengthening of institutions in the use of space technologies. UN-SPIDER also facilitates cooperation between satellite data and information providers and users, such as policymakers, disaster risk managers or emergency responders.
  • Space for Water Portal: to enable all stakeholders involved in the space and water communities to access data and knowledge, to be creative and to realize their full potential in contributing to a world in which the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all has become a reality.
  • Space for Climate Action: Project to raise awareness about the use of space to monitor and tackle climate action (SDG13)
  • Space for SDGs: project to raise awareness about the use of space for the SDGs

Upcoming Activities relevant to Earth Observation

  • UN/Ghana/PSPW 5th International Conference on the use of space technology for water resources management (10-13 May 2022 - Online)

Resources relevant to Earth Observation

  • UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal: contains information, best practices, advisory supports and upcoming events
  • Space4Water portal: contains information about actors, resources, as well as thematic and regional focus areas
  • UNOOSA website: Contains information about Space for Climate Action, SDGs and GNSS

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