On 31 August 2015, US space agency, NASA, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched SERVIR-Mekong. The purpose of it is to serve the Mekong River Basin countries: Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.

SERVIR-Mekong is a mutual project intended to strengthen regional environmental monitoring in the mentioned countries in Southeast Asia’s lower Mekong region. The SERVIR-Mekong will help in food, climate resilience and water security.

The SERVIR-Mekong hub is situated in Bangkok, Thailand, at the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center. Under the project, a rising global community of scientists and decision-makers will make use of publicly available data from space assets to deal with critical regional issues.

The SERVIR program assists governments and development stakeholders in incorporating Earth observations as well as geospatial technologies into natural disaster response to make food security better, protect human health and manage water and natural resources.

The Stockholm Environment Institute in Sweden, the Spatial Informatics Group of Pleasanton, California, and the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center of The Netherlands are among other partners of the SERVIR-Mekong consortium.

Development Alternatives Incorporated, headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, provides SERVIR global demand support.

According to NASA administrator Charles Bolden, "Today, NASA demonstrates the human impact of its science mission here on Earth and our commitment to protecting the resources, the environment and millions of people living, working and raising new generations of pioneers and innovators across the region".