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GEO-LDN Flagship
The GEO Land Degradation Neutrality Flagship (GEO-LDN) is a stakeholder-driven initiative that was launched in 2018 during the GEO Week in Kyoto, Japan, responding to a request by the UNCCD’s Conference of the Parties (COP13). It brings together Earth observation data providers and governments to develop minimum data quality standards, analytical tools and capacity building needed to strengthen land degradation monitoring and reporting, using remote sensing and data collected on site.
GEO-LDN helps governments to access the necessary datasets and tools to prioritize interventions, monitor outcomes to manage land better and to report on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 15.3.1 (Decision 9/COP.13).
The LDN Toolbox is a user-oriented entry point to a suite of analytical tools, datasets and methods for land use planning towards land degradation neutrality. The workflow of the toolbox is structured according to the typical 5 phases of an integrated land use planning cycle, as presented in a report of the UNCCD Science-Policy interface on “The contribution of integrated land use planning and integrated landscape management to implementing Land Degradation Neutrality: Entry points and support tools”.
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LDN Training prior to AfriGEO Symposium 2023
23. September 2023
Ahead of the AfriGEO Symposium 2023 in Swakopmund, Namibia, GEO-LDN hosted a two-day training workshop on land degradation monitoring. Thirty-one AfriGEO delegates explored tools such as SEPAL, Trends.Earth, the Great Green Wall Big Data Facilitator, and OSS’s use of Digital Earth Africa, strengthening capacity to plan and monitor progress toward Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN).
