'David Saah, Professor and Director of the Geospatial Analysis Lab at the University of San Francisco, explains how FAO’s Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) programme is working in partnership with NASA to integrate its technology into Global Remote Sensing Survey as FAO fulfils its mandate to measure, monitor and report on forests worldwide. With the support from USAID, NASA and FAO have jointly developed Collect Earth Online, a new, easy-to-use online tool that facilitates assessment of land use and land cover as well as land-use change through visual interpretation of high resolution satellite imagery. This tool will help with FAO to implement planned Global Remote Sensing Survey designed to improve estimates of forest land-use change at global and regional scales. The tool will also improve countries’ capacity to use remote sensing to derive improved national estimates which they can use to report to FRA as well as to monitor progress towards implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and Nationally Determined Contributions within the Paris Agreement. Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=FAOoftheUN #ZeroHunger Follow #FAO on social media! * Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/UNFAO * Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+UNFAO * Instagram - https://instagram.com/fao/ * LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/fao * Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/fao/ © FAO: http://www.fao.org #ZeroHunger'
Tags: NASA , united nations , fao , forestry , food and agriculture organization of the united nations , fao.org , sustainable development goals , #ZeroHunger , land use , sustainable forest management , Paris Agreement , Collect Earth Online , Google Earth Engine , Global Forest Resources Assessment , Remote Sensing Survey , Nationally Determined Contributions , satellite imagery , land-use change assessment
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