This repository holds all of the curriculum development materials created as a part of SERVIR and ITC's joint Curriculum Development Initiative.
SERVIR is a joint initiative of NASA and the US Agency for International Development (USAID). We work with geospatial organizations around the world, co-developing services to address environmental challenges. ITC is the faculty of geo-information science and Earth Observation at the University of Twente. SERVIR and ITC have been partnered since 2018. The curriculum development intiative was launched in 2021, and set out to integrate geospatial tools developed by SERVIR in ITC's Curriculum in the Master's Program in Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (M-GEO). SERVIR and ITC co-developed modules regarding SERVIR tools that were integrated as brief units in pre-existing courses. These curriculum materials were developed to support a specific use in the course each tool was paried with. In 2023, SERVIR began adapting these materials for use in Geoversity, a virtual learning platform developed by ITC.
The folder labelled "2022-23" contains curriculum materials developed for ITC M-GEO courses that ran during the 2022-2023 Academic Year. The folder labelled "2023-24" contains curriculum materials for courses that ran during the 2023-2024 academic year. The folder labelled "Geoversity" contains curriculum materials that were developed for ITC's virtual learning platform, Geoversity. Within each of these folders, the curriculum materials are organized according to the tool they were developed for. As of May 2024, SERVIR/ITC developed curricula for four SERVIR tools, Collect Earth Online (CEO), ClimateSERV, The Hydrologic Remote Sensing Analysis of Floods Tool (HYDRAFloods), and the Radar Mining Monitoring Tool (RAMI). ClimateSERV is a website allowing for the visualization and download of various biophysical and meteorological datasets. Collect Earth Online is a satellite image viewing and interpretation platform allowing for the free and open performance of image interpretation projects. HYDRAFloods is a Python application allowing for the implementation of surface water mapping workflows using remote sensing and Google Earth Engine. RAMI is an Earth Engine Application allowing for automated deforestation alerts.
Pursuant to NASA's Transform to Open Science [TOPS], all curriculum materials provided here are open access (see the license for more information). The curriculum materials accessed in this repository may be out of date due to updates to our tools or the software they depend on (e.g. Python & Google Earth Engine). For assistance using our tools, feel free to get in touch with us at https://servirglobal.net/.
Funding for this work was provided through the cooperative agreement 80MSFC22N0004 between NASA and the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). SERVIR is a joint NASA and USAID-led program.
The current release of this repository is marked with the following Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
