Use of Earth Observation Data (FAO-EOSTAT)

Publications
06/06/2024

This report, a joint effort by IICA, NASA Harvest, University of Maryland, AMA, and FAO, focuses on assessing the adoption and effectiveness of Earth Observation (EO) technologies in agricultural monitoring across Latin America. Given agriculture's critical role in regional economies, advanced monitoring technologies such as EO are essential for maintaining food security and economic stability.

12/09/2023

The NextGen-Atlas of Lesotho provides information on the land cover distribution at multiple geographical levels and across the time frame 2017-2022: at the national level, at the district level, at the municipality level, at the main catchment area level, and by six selected Sub-Catchment areas under ICM priority interventions.

15/08/2023

Launched in 2021 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the EOSTAT project uses next generation Earth observation tools to monitor land cover change. First deployed in Lesotho, the innovative approach relies on free of charge Earth observation data, vegetation and climate modeling, as well as field survey data to build countries’ capacity to produce official annual land cover statistics that are standardized, accurate, granular and validated.