#8 Online Seminar Special Edition
Workshop on SEPAL Modules for Monitoring SDG Indicator 15.3.1
The GEO-LDN community participated in a two-day technical workshop on the SEPAL modules developed by FAO, designed to operationalize the latest Good Practice Guidance for SDG indicator 15.3.1 (proportion of degraded land over total land area). The SEPAL platform enables cloud-based geospatial processing and provides high spatial and temporal resolution information to assess land degradation. The tool supports customized, user-specific applications, from local to national scale, for both assessment and reporting on SDG 15.3.1.
Part 1 Introduction & the SEPAL Platform
Click the titles of respective presentations on the agenda to view or download the PowerPoints.
| Time (CEST) | Topic | Speaker |
| 1.00 pm | Opening Remarks | Vera Boerger, Senior Land officer, Land and Water Division, FAO |
| 1.05 pm | Land degradation monitoring: Opportunities and challenges | Sara Minelli, Programme Officer for Monitoring and Assessment, UNCCD |
1.20 pm | Reporting with SDG 15.3.1 | Brian O’Connor, Geospatial Information Officer, UNCCD |
| 1.30 pm | Use of land cover meta language (LCML) and land cover legend in land degradation monitoring and other SDGs | Fatima Mushtaq, Land monitoring expert, Geospatial unit, Land and Water Division, FAO |
| 1.40 pm | Introduction to the SEPAL platform and module 15.3.1 | Amit Ghosh, Geospatial expert, Geospatial unit, Land and Water Division, FAO |
| 2.25 pm | Q&A | Moderation: Matieu Henry, Technical Officer, Geospatial Unit, Land and Water Division, FAO |
Part 2 Examples and demonstration
| 1.00 pm | Land degradation monitoring and beyond: The role of national datasets and the LDN-Toolbox | Bernd Eversmann, Earth Observation Advisor, (GEO-LDN, GIZ) |
| 1.10 pm | Example of monitoring 15.3.1 using global data: Bangladesh | Rashed Jalal, Remote Sensing and GIS expert, Geospatial unit, Land and Water Division, FAO |
| 1.25 pm | Example of monitoring 15.3.1 using high resolution data: Angola | Rashed Jalal, Remote Sensing and GIS expert, Geospatial unit, Land and Water Division, FAO |
| 1.40 pm | Example of using in-country land cover data for monitoring land degradation using the SEPAL Module 15.3.1 | Amit Ghosh, Geospatial expert, Geospatial unit, Land and Water Division, FAO |
| 2.00 pm | Q&A | Moderation: Matieu Henry, Technical Officer, Geospatial Unit, Land and Water Division, FAO |
| 2.10 pm | Land degradation in the mountain region: An overview of the SEPAL module 15.4.2 | Daniel Guerrero, Geospatial Specialist, Forestry Division, FAO |
| 2.25 pm | Closing remarks | Erik Lindquist, Forestry Officer, Forestry Division, FAO |
