Linking land and water observations for SDG reporting and development policy support: a case study in Vietnam
Abstract
UN Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 15.3.1 reports the proportion of land that is degraded over total land area. There are strong interactions between efforts to reduce the extent of degraded lands, and outcomes for a range of other SDGs such as Clean Water and Sanitation (Goal 6) and Sustainable Cities and Communities (Goal 11). Impacts from urban and industrial development activities can occur from local to regional scales, and range in speed from instantaneous to decadal. The intrinsic integration of land and water environments, and the complex spatial and temporal patterns of land use can make it difficult to identify and link the impacts of development activities over space and through time. This presentation will explore how Earth observation can support SDG monitoring and national planning objectives by providing accurate, timely and repeatable data and tools to inform the policy decision making process. In particular, it will describe a case study Earth observation project that aims to link observed changes in the extent of degraded land to measurements of water quality using the Vietnam Data Cube in the Mekong delta.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFMIN41A..05S
- Keywords:
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- 1640 Remote sensing;
- GLOBAL CHANGE;
- 1916 Data and information discovery;
- INFORMATICS;
- 4329 Sustainable development;
- NATURAL HAZARDS;
- 6620 Science policy;
- POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES