The Challenge
Healthy land is necessary for life on Earth. Currently, 25 percent of the world's land is degraded. There is strong global support to stop land degradation, but this will require the ability to map and measure land degradation at the national level across all land types. Without this information, investments, policies, and interventions will be ineffective.
The Solution
The GEO-Land Degradation Neutrality (GEO-LDN) Initiative aims to improve land degradation measurement and mapping while also contributing to land degradation neutrality (LDN). GEO-LDN does this through three key services: facilitating access to space-based information and in-situ measurements; providing expertise, tools, and training to build national capacities; and assisting with the further development of international standards and protocols for the indicator.
