1. Land Cover Mapping in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region RCMRD’s contribution Phoebe Oduor Thematic Lead: LULC and GHG Inventories June 14th 2017, Sunyani

2. Problem Statement: Response to societal issues
Land cover conversions: Growing pressures on land due to increasing population has created a need to closely monitor land resources.
World population: (in 40 years) billion, billion. Estimated to be 9 billion by 2038.
Mau Complex:2014
Kitengela in 1990
Kitengela in 2003
Mau Complex:1990
Kitengela in 2014
Growing Urban areas
Mau Complex:2016
Conversions of Forest Land to Crop Land
Source: Google Earth, Digital Globe images and Landsat

3. Support to Greenhouse gases Inventories: Data
Countries covered

4. Support to greenhouse gases inventories: Data

5. Support to Greenhouse gases Inventories: Capacity Building: AFOLU GHG
Countries lack capacity in developing their own national GHG Inventories. A requirement not just by the UNFCC but a basis that should be driving many developmental solutions in terms of architecture and their implementation but also policy related to the same.

6. Support to Greenhouse gases Inventories: Capacity Building: AFOLU GHG
Stakeholder consultations
Expert Knowledge Surveys
Review of the National Circumstances
Alternative Sources
Review of Previous Communications to UNFCCC QC
Documentation Reporting
Desktop Research
National Communications or Biennial Update Reports
Institutional Arrangements
Roles and Responsibilities
Improvement Plans
Data Gap and Capacity Assessments
QA and Review
Training/capacity building
Submission to UNFCCC-Country responsibility
KCA
Accounting tools- ALU, IPCC software
Dissemination (user outreach)
Guidance on Data Collection
Existing Data Organization
Gap Filling

7. Utilities at National and Regional Level
Land Cover Maps Utility Track
Organization
Country
Utility 1
Ministry of Environment through LECRD
Kenya
Third National Communication 2
Conservation International/Vital Signs
Environment Assessments 3
Waves Program
Rwanda
Natural Capital Accounting 5
NRT
Climate Vulnerability assessments- NRT and LWF 6
Develop
Develop Biomass 7
CADMUS Group
All
Environmental Assessments 8
KFS
REDD+ and Development of Nation FRLs 9
CCI/ Mullion Group/ Moja Global
Land Based Emissions Estimations 11
Department of Forestry
Zambia 12
Academic Research 13
Environmental Affairs Department
Malawi
My COE 14
ICON
Change Monitoring 15
Lesotho Meteorological Services
Lesotho
GHG Inventory 16
Ke, Et & Tz
Change Monitoring for use in ongoing projects 17
NASA-Student
Msc. Research 18
REMA 19
Winrock
GHG Accounting 20
University of Malawi
Change Monitoring- Lake Mawi Basin 21 22
Vice President's Office
Tanzania
FREL
Global FRA UN FAO
Globeland and NGGC

8. Mapping Standards
There’s still an existing gap that needs to be addressed by countries in terms of standardizing their classification schema and defining what these classes are.
Transforming the mapping standards into policy documents that can be utilized all over the country.
Leveraging on what has been done by other existing efforts
Developing a community of practice.

9. Spatial Data Infrastructure: RCMRD Open Data
Discoverable on GEOSS Portal:

10. Tools and Products Developed

11. Community of Practice
SERVIR Global has established a Technical Advisory Group consisting of long term professionals in land cover service from:
Jason Tullis, Chair, University of Arkansas
Lisa Curran, Stanford University
Chandra Giri, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Matthew Hansen, University of Maryland
Volker Radeloff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
NASA Science Coordination Office- leverage experts from different US institutions through the Applied Science team.
AfriGEOSS working group on Land Cover (formed in 2013)- addresses some key issues related to the service area.
Land Cover Inventory for Africa
AfriGEOSS Symposium
What more can AfriGEOSS do to address these issues?

12. Thank You