Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) is “a state whereby the amount and quality of land resources, necessary to support ecosystem functions and services and enhance food security, remains stable or increases within specified temporal and spatial scales and ecosystems”. Restoring degraded...

Land cover is one of the 14th essential geospatial data layers recognized by the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM). It is essential for achieving most of the Sustainable Development Goals. Despite this recognized need,...

Due to high population growth, unsustainable natural resources management, landscapes in Central Angola are degraded. The Centre of Tropical Ecology and Climate Change (CETAC), under the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Environment (MCTA), and other relevant departments, receive technical and...

Productive land is a foundation to global food security and environmental health, zero hunger, poverty eradication, and energy for all yet this natural resource is under pragmatic threat. Human activities and climate change directly pose negative effects on the environment....

The classification of Land Cover and Land Use (LCLU) are some of the primary measures driving natural resources monitoring, climate science and are critical for addressing many of the United Nations (UN) sustainability goals, including the estimation of world agricultural...