The Key for the Integration of Public and Private Stakeholders in the Development of a Comprehensive All-Lands Monitoring System in Costa Rica
Abstract
In 2015, Costa Rica formally started designing its National Land Use, Land Cover and Ecosystems Monitoring System (SIMOCUTE), under the coordination of the National Center for Geoenvironmental Information (CENIGA) of the Ministry of Environment and Energy. Now, the country is getting ready to advance SIMOCUTE into an implementation stage in 2020. The system will deliver different types of high-quality information products, constructed from a participatory process that has integrated key stakeholders from public and private institutions, related to the agro-environmental sectors.
SIMOCUTE aims to provide consistent, national-scale information on the state and changes in the country's land. It includes several coordinated subsystems that will integrate field-based data with image-based monitoring systems to provide comprehensive data that can improve land use decision-making and satisfy a variety of national and international reporting requirements. Currently, its three components include: 1) an image-based land use and land cover inventory, which is based on photo-interpreting these attributes from a systematic grid of plots distributed across the country, using high-resolution imagery, 2) a national forest inventory, and 3) a mapping subsystem. All components will use common land use and land cover classification system. The three components, plus other future monitoring components and registries (forests, crops, ecosystems) will provide consistent, complementary, and synergistic information. The high level of integration and consistency of SIMOCUTE's components and land use and land cover classification systems results from the coordinated and agreed-upon efforts of the diverse stakeholders. SIMOCUTE is also a result of a coordinated integration of different international agencies that sponsor and collaborate together with the Government of Costa Rica. Currently the most active international agencies that support SIMOCUTE are Silvacarbon, FAO, IDB, CATIE, the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility and UNDP.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFMGC43K1432M
- Keywords:
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- 1622 Earth system modeling;
- GLOBAL CHANGE;
- 1630 Impacts of global change;
- GLOBAL CHANGE;
- 1632 Land cover change;
- GLOBAL CHANGE;
- 1640 Remote sensing;
- GLOBAL CHANGE