Land Use Science in Action
CONTINUED FOREST PROTECTION MUST BE CORE TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
- Marginal lands are now being used for crop production to feed an ever-growing population.
- Agriculture productivity must increase to meet demand, intensification rather than intensification.
- Currently, an urgent need exists for information to maximize yield based on land capabilities to mitigate land degradation, improve productivity, and to alleviate food insecurity.
- NASA's role in Earth observation is essential for merging cutting-edge modeling with very high-resolution commercial data to inform the sustainability of current land use and food security.
- Long-term effects of a lack of land tenure rights can be addressed with multi-resolution remote sensing data to relieve land pressure and move toward sustainable management practices.
Village Sustainable Planning and its influence on tropical forestry outcomes in Guyana
CONTINUED FOREST PROTECTION MUST BE CORE TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
- Carbon payment mechanisms to incentive sustainable forest management have an impact on forest loss
- Analyses integrating remote sensing and socioeconomic data can quantify the effectiveness of Village Sustainability Planning program on forest and land use
- With the rise carbon payment mechanisms for forest conservation, urgent need for such analyses is needed to inform current and future sustainable planning
- NASA’s role in Earth observation is essential for measuring and monitoring global investments in carbon markets
Monitoring urbanization-driven LCLUC hotspots and urban development patterns across Africa
BUILDING ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL INDICATOR 11.3.1. FOR IMPROVED UTILITY AND GUIDANCE
- Urbanization is a leading cause of LCLUC globally, although Africa is currently leading these trends, particularly within small to medium sized, or secondary, cities.
- UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) may contribute to global monitoring of urbanization, but methodological gaps limit the consistent application of SDG Indicators.
- We combined remotes sensing products with open-source software to develop automated approaches for delineating urban areas across broad extents and consistently through time.
- Urbanization-driven LCLUC hotspots were identified and further analyzed across Ethiopia, Nigeria, and South Africa.
Task 4: Analyzing the building energy demand response and corresponding implications for the wider energy system.
- Urban heat islands (UHIs) in growing cities can have varying degrees of impacts on human health, as well as energy demands for cooling.
- Remote sensing and modeling provide essential information for comprehending and managing urbanization's climate and societal impacts.
- By combining gridded data for temperature, building characteristics, population, and behaviour we are able to model the building energy demand response to UHI
- This demand response can then be used to calculate corresponding changes in power supply and related parameters such as emissions.
Remote sensing based mixture modeling to study land and permafrost disturbances
- Rapidly changing environmental conditions in the Arctic, driven by amplified global warming, are impacting communities and ecosystems, particularly due to added anthropogenic impacts from energy exploration and development.
- Analysis integrating remote sensing and socioeconomic data can quantify the land disturbances and help understand societal vulnerabilities of Arctic communities.
- Critical need to quantify impacts resulting from expanding drilling in the region.
- Changes to the Arctic ecosystem provide crucial links to the global climate and biogeochemical cycles.