Earth Map
Earth Map, developed by FAO and Google, is a user-friendly tool that leverages Google Earth Engine’s capabilities to provide extensive land monitoring and analysis.
LDN Toolbox
QGIS
QGIS (Quantum Geographic Information System) is a powerful, open-source GIS software that enables users to analyze, visualize, and manage spatial data.
KoBoToolbox
KoBoToolbox is an open-source platform that enables easy data collection and analysis in both online and offline settings. Within the GEO-LDN Toolbox, it supports land degradation assessments by capturing geospatial, environmental, and socio-economic data, allowing local communities to directly contribute to national decision-making processes for achieving Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN).
WOCAT Earth Engine Apps
Mapping land degradation is complex due to diverse drivers, processes, and perceptions across time and space. WOCAT has developed cloud-based, user-friendly apps that integrate global, national, and local data to support evidence-based planning, participatory mapping, and monitoring towards LDN. These tools apply the principle of Convergence of Evidence, making land degradation mapping more accessible and actionable.
World Atlas for Desertification
The World Atlas of Desertification (WAD) is a digital platform that combines interactive maps, data visualizations, and scientific insights to track global patterns of land degradation. It supports evidence-based decision-making and promotes sustainable land management practices.
Focus Groups
Focus groups are a qualitative research method that capture collective perspectives on land management and development issues. They provide nuanced, context-specific feedback through group interaction, supporting participatory planning and inclusive decision-making.
Questionnaire on Sustainable Land Management Technologies
The ultimate goal of documenting and assessing land management practices is to share and spread valuable knowledge in land management, support evidence-based decision-making, and scale up identified good/ best practices.
Resilience Diagnostic and Decision Support Tool (RDDST)
Part of Stakeholder Approach to Risk Informed and Evidence Based Decision Making (SHARED). Web-based tool that compiles spatial and census data on social, economic and biophysical parameters.
Transect Walks
A participatory method where researchers and community members systematically walk along a defined path to observe and document local conditions. The results are summarized in a transect diagram or map, which informs group discussions and planning.
Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE)
This method calculates or projects soil loss from water erosion using spatial data on topography, climate, soils, land cover and management. It assesses current soil loss and models future impacts under climate and land-use scenarios for sustainable land planning.
