. GLOBAL LAND COVER NETWORK/ASIACOVER WORKSHOP Overview Of The Global Land Cover Network Initiative (GLCN) Strategies for Land Cover Mapping and Monitoring John S. Latham GLCN Co-ordinator SDRN, FAO

. GLOBAL LAND COVER NETWORK/ASIACOVER WORKSHOP Country Core Requirements Rely Heavily on Land Cover Data For: Environmental, Food Security, and Humanitarian Programmes. In support of :Sustainable Development and stewardship of natural resources, environmental protection, disaster mitigation. The underlying principles are: Affirmed by UNCED Agenda 21, reconfirmed at WSSD and the General Assembly’s Millennium Declaration, activate through many initiatives including MA.

. GLOBAL LAND COVER NETWORK/ASIACOVER WORKSHOP UN Core Requirements also Rely Heavily on Land Cover Data - common driving forces for harmonised information UN Core Requirements also Rely Heavily on Land Cover Data - common driving forces for harmonised information 1 NATIONAL AND INT. RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER AGENDA 21 - FAO/UNEP ESP. CHAPTER 10 & 40(INTEGRATED PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF LAND RESOURCES & INFO FOR DECSIONS MAKERS) 1 NATIONAL AND INT. RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER AGENDA 21 - FAO/UNEP ESP. CHAPTER 10 & 40( INTEGRATED PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF LAND RESOURCES & INFO FOR DECSIONS MAKERS) 2 STANDARDISTION FOR INPUT TO UNCED CONVENTIONS- CBD, CCC, CCD. 3 GLOBAL TOTAL CARBON INITIATIVE - TCI/KYOTO PROTOCOL 4 TO MEET THE GROWING DEMANDS OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMES FOR HARMONISATION OF TRANSBOUNDARY ISSUES- FOOD SECURITY, DESERTIFICATION, DEFORESTATION, WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ETC.

. GLOBAL LAND COVER NETWORK/ASIACOVER WORKSHOP Poverty Poverty Education Education Gender Equality Gender Equality Child Morality Child Morality Maternal Health Maternal Health HIV/AIDS Malaria HIV/AIDS Malaria Environment Environment Global Partnerships Global Partnerships Achieving the MDGs Earth Data GIS Systems Professionals Standards SDI

. GLOBAL LAND COVER NETWORK/ASIACOVER WORKSHOP OVERVIEW GLCN The Global Land Cover Network (GLCN) initiative is the result of a common effort of FAO and UNEP to answer the need expressed by the international community for a global land cover standardized data base. The GLCN initiative is based on the recommendations of the Agenda 21 for coordinated, systematic and harmonized collection and assessment of data on land cover and environmental conditions, especially for monitoring degradation: remote sensing and Ggeographical Iinformation Systems (GIS) technologies are used. Presently, the GLCN is the first example of an operational global initiative in the domain of geographical information. As a result of this effort and as another step towards development of a global, harmonized land cover classification and mapping strategy, with the objective to provide direction, focus and guidance for harmonization of land cover mapping and monitoring at national, regional and global levels. This initiative has been launched at the conference “Strategies for Global Land Cover Mapping and Monitoring” held in Florence 6-8 May 2002 during which a common final declaration (the Artimino declaration) was issued.

. GLOBAL LAND COVER NETWORK/ASIACOVER WORKSHOP Management Framework NSDI Components Supportive Information Policy / Data Standards Computing and Network Technology Custom Applications for Data Access / Use Capacity Building & Communications Structured Framework Layers Spatial, Tabular Data Integrated, efficient, cost-effective infrastructure Enables national priorities and economic renewal. Land administration; Natural resource management; Environmental management; Land use planning and development Information Management Supports Empowering NSDI’s

. GLOBAL LAND COVER NETWORK/ASIACOVER WORKSHOP A New Programme to Improve Global Land Cover Information Access A joint FAO/UNEP initiative, known as the Global Land Cover Network or GLCN Objectives: - Methods and standards to harmonize regional and local land cover information. - Develop Networks and Linkages among co-operating organizations. - Development of a high resolution global land cover data set based on a common standard. - Implementation of a distributed service to provide comparable products at global, regional, and national and lower levels. - Training, and institution-building to maximize benefits for developing countries. -Operational development and use by national stakeholders

. GLOBAL LAND COVER NETWORK/ASIACOVER WORKSHOP Biophysical/biogeochemical consequences of land use change Human drivers of land use change Impacts on sustainability Land cover observations UNDERSTANING OF CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF LAND COVER/USE CHANGE

. GLOBAL LAND COVER NETWORK/ASIACOVER WORKSHOP Environmentalsuitability Infrastructure Socio-economics Land cover Multiple data sources

. GLOBAL LAND COVER NETWORK/ASIACOVER WORKSHOP Areas for sustainable development Integration for sustainable development

. GLOBAL LAND COVER NETWORK/ASIACOVER WORKSHOP Real World Object User(s) Spatial Information Chain Data Collection Information Extraction Information Integration DATA Observations & Measurements INFORMATION Data organized & placed in context KNOWLEDGE Ability to understand & explain Information Understanding

. GLOBAL LAND COVER NETWORK/ASIACOVER WORKSHOP Three Domains of Reality The Need is to Organize and Turn Data into Actionable Knowledge Cognitive Domain (Actionable Knowledge) Symbolic Domain (Information) Physical Domain (Data) Sense Measure Count Understanding and Explaining Information Data Placed in Context Measurements and Observations IT ROLE Decide Perceive Compute Transfer Symbolize Sense

. GLOBAL LAND COVER NETWORK/ASIACOVER WORKSHOP How is FAO Supporting Geo- Information VALUE ADDED BY IT Data Information Knowledge Decisions Actions Meaning Integration Relevance Collaboration Reference: The Gartner Group PHYSICAL SYMBOLIC COGNITIVE SENSORS & FIELD DATA MEASURING& MONITORING AGRICULTURE ( PREDICIT/FORECAST) ENHANCED FARM MANAGEMENT INFORMATION AGRICULTURE ENTERPRISE

. GLOBAL LAND COVER NETWORK/ASIACOVER WORKSHOP Global Land Cover JRC at Scale 1:1,000,000 - raster based Georeferenced Land Cover Initiatives - Africover/Asiacove/ S.AMERICA National Scale : 1:250,000-1:100,000 - vector based Global Land Cover Scale 1:5-2,000,000 - raster based Local Soil Information System at Scale 1:20,000 - vector based Catchment Information System at Scale 1:50,000 - vector based IGBP 1991 GLC 2000 Global Map Member States Regions Local Global assessments Spatial planning Local Planning LCCSharmonisation/translation A Nested Land Cover System

. GLOBAL LAND COVER NETWORK/ASIACOVER WORKSHOP Building a Global Coalition---Partnership A number of initiatives are already in existenceA number of initiatives are already in existence No single entity at national, regional or international level can do it alone No single entity at national, regional or international level can do it alone Added-value for synergization and harmonizationAdded-value for synergization and harmonization Key partners: governments, industry, academic institutions, in addition to operational programmes and organizations- we invite the African community here to become an active participant in this process and to become engaged as incubators for ASIAN implementation Key partners: governments, industry, academic institutions, in addition to operational programmes and organizations- we invite the African community here to become an active participant in this process and to become engaged as incubators for ASIAN implementation

. GLOBAL LAND COVER NETWORK/ASIACOVER WORKSHOP GLCN ADVISORY GROUP Member States Agriculture & Environmental and geographic information ministries, Regional Networks, JRC- EU, Umbrella organisations, CGIAR, IAO, NGO’s, Industry, FAO, UNEP, USGS.... THE GLCN DRIVING FORCES

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