Seeking Balance in the Land-use Marketplace

Alan Belward

IGARSS 2012, Munich

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The future we wantEnhance sustainable agriculture, improve food security, conserve

resources, biodiversity and ecosystems and enhance resilience to climate change and natural disasters

① Recognizes the importance of space-technology-based data, in situ monitoring and reliable geospatial information for sustainable development policymaking, programming and project operations

② Promotes the science-policy interface through inclusive, evidence-based and transparent scientific assessments, as well as access to reliable, relevant and timely data

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Launches per year of pan/vis/nir/swir sensors carried on polar orbiters

EnvironmentalPressures

EconomicPressures

SocietalPressures

Competitionfor Land

Food, Fuel, or Fibre ?

CarbonTrading

BiodiversityOffsets

The Land-use

Marketplace

Logging Concession

Protected Area

OFAC; on-line for forest management, carbon, biodiversity, cover change

Interactive mapping, reference reports, data management/analysis, capacity-building

http://www.observatoire-comifac.net/

Protected Areas (PA)

Species

Collect dataUpdate dataBuild databases

ProvideWeb Services,but share theirinput/output

Integrate datasets

Create new information for Protected Areamanagement

Ecosystems

Monitoring Scenarios ForecastsThre

at

Biodiversity

Make datasetsInteroperable

ProvideWeb ProcessingServices

Risk/value for African Protected Areas(blue dots = EU funded PA)

Source, Gregoire Dubois JRC

Source A. Brink , C. Bodart et al. JRC

Land coverLand use

Status ofProtected

areas

Soil type and

condition

Vegetation condition

andcrop yield

Data for food security analysis, crop monitoring, land degradation, surface water

monitoring, grassland condition, forest condition, fire mapping…

Initially research projects, now support to development projects (PUMA, AMESD, MESA, in total 68 MEUR from European

Development Fund)

Satellite communications and IT infrastructure, with applications

Land coverLand use

Status ofProtected

areas

Soil type and

condition

Vegetation condition

andcrop yield

Europe’s Users

UsingenGermany

Africa’sUsers

2 mBit/sC-band

AtlanticBird-3HotBird-64 mBit/sKu-band

Ku-band to C-bandconversion

FucinoItaly

MSG

EUMETCastUplink

Direct information feedto Africa

Africa’sUsers

Technical advice for contractual matters Development of processing chains for

analysis and reporting

Thematic analysis concerning long-term resource management

Capacity-building

Objectives

① Maximize S2 L8 programme synergy (products, data access)

② Ensure both are recognised as key informers of policy (EU and International)

③ Build land resource management services around these, especially…

④ Promoting and supporting uptake in Africa

Tentative Plans

① S2 simulation from SPOT 4 for land cover / cover change in Tanzania

② 1990 – 2000 – 2005 – 2010 – 2015 cover change for Africa

③ Integrate higher-resolution products into the eStation and subsequent Continental (AUC), Regional (RECs) and national uptake across Africa.

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