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servir is a joint nasa and usaid program

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where we're working with developing

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countries around the world and

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strengthening their ability to use

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satellites to address the many problems

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that they have including floods fires

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harmful algal blooms and other types of

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events that they have where they can use

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satellites to really make better

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decisions we're using space information

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to help decisions that affect people in

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the village where they live when there's

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a major disaster governments around the

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world come together

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and they

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they provide all of the satellite data

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basically that the world has to offer

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but they're smaller disasters that occur

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in the countries that we work in that

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may not make the front page of the new

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york times but in that country it's a

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really big deal we asked ourselves could

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we make a difference if we had a

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dedicated imager

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for acquiring imagery quickly after

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natural disasters and to be able to

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provide that imagery back to the

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countries that need them that have

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real decisions that need to be made with

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a very quick turnaround as nasa we

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looked in our own backyard and

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started thinking could we use the

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the international space station was a

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really fantastic asset to take advantage

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of because it it passes over 90 of the

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earth's populated area every 24 hours we

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developed an imaging system and we

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called it iserv which basically is a

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camera and a telescope system that sits

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inside the international space station

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and can collect imagery when it passes

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over natural disasters or other events

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that we need to collect imagery

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initially we were planning to take few

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pictures per day so we contacted all the

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usa missions around the world and in

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total we have more than 2 000 requests

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coming you know for people who need

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images from isil and we moved to like a

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thousand images per day we provided

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i serve imagery for many many natural

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disasters including floods and fires for

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deforestation for volcanic eruptions for

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earthquakes so it was really a fantastic

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example showing

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how imagery from the international space

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station could be used in these times of

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dire need

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and now we have a huge archives of

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images of areas around the world so this

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is something that was not really there

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before i serve is an example of in

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essence making the international space

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station even more international and