Monitoring Integrated Service for Land Degradation - MISLAND

The Monitoring Integrated System for Land Degradation Monitoring MISLAND has been developed as a collaboration between the OSS and LocateIT under the GMES and Africa programme as a Decision Support System(DSS) utilizing earth observation data to deliver information, promote awareness and, aid in decision making toward realizing Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) in six OSS North Africa action zone countries: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, and Mauritania. At the very core, the service provided information to monitor SDG indicator 15.3.1 (Proportion of land that is degraded over the total land area). In addition, and to improve the understanding and multi-faceted nature of the active processes behind land degradation, MISLAND service also provides information on Vegetation loss and gain hotspots, Forest change, forest fires and the Mediterranean Desertification and Land Use Model (MEDALUS), to assess desertification indicators.

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About

• General Infortmation
  • Get in touch with the team
  • Authors
  • Aknowledgement
  • Linces
• Data sources
  • NDVI
  • Soil moisture
  • Precipitation
  • Evapotranspiration
  • Land cover
  • Soil carbon
  • Agroecological Zones
  • Soil Quality
  • Climate
  • Administrative Boundaries
• Dataset coding
  • SDG 15.3.1 Indicator
  • Productivity
    • Productivity trajectory (trend)
    • Productivity trajectory (significance)
    • Productivity performance (degradation)
    • Productivity performance (ratio)
    • Productivity performance (units)
    • Productivity state (degradation)
    • Productivity state classes
    • Productivity state NDVI mean
    • SDG 15.3.1 productivity indicator
    • Land productivity dynamics
  • Land cover
    • Land cover (degradation)
    • Land cover (7 class)
    • Land cover (ESA classes)
    • Land cover (transitions)
  • Soil organic carbon
    • Soil organic carbon (degradation)
    • Soil organic carbon
    • Population
    • Delta Normalized Burnt Ratio
• Frequently asked questions
  • Installation of MISLAND-North Africa
    • What version of Quantum GIS (QGIS) do I need for the toolbox?
    • Do I need to download a 32-bit or 64 bit version of QGIS?
    • How do I install the plugin?
    • How do I upgrade the plugin?
    • How do I uninstall the plugin?
  • Datasets
    • When will you update datasets for the current year?
    • Is there an option to download the original data?
    • Will the toolbox support higher resolution datasets?
  • Methods
    • Who was the default time period for the analysis determined?
    • Productivity
    • Land cover
    • Carbon stocks
  • Land degradation outputs
    • How were the layers combined to define the final land degradation layer?
    • Why do I see areas the data says are improving or degrading when I know they are not?
    • All of the sub-indicators are measuring vegetation: how does this contribute to understanding and identifying land degradation?
  • Future plans
    • When will there be an offline version of the toolbox?

Background

• Land Degradation
  • Land Degradation Indicators
    • SDG15.3.1 Indicator
      • SDG 15.3.1 Sub-indicators
      • Combining Productivity Indicators
    • Vegetation Loss/Gain hotspots
    • Forest Change
      • Forest Gain/Loss
      • Forest Fires
• SDG15.3.1 Indicator
  • SDG 15.3.1 Sub-indicators
    • Productivity
    • Combining Productivity Indicators
  • Landcover
  • Carbon-stocks
• Vegetation Loss/Gain hotspots
• Forest Change
  • Forest Gain/Loss
  • Forest Carbon Emission
  • Forest Fire Risk
  • Forest Fires
• Wind and Water Erosion
  • Wind Erosion
    • Climate erosivity
    • Erodible Factor
  • Water Erosion
• Coastal Erosion
  • Coastal Vulnerability Index

Web Service Guide

• Serivice Guide
  • MISLAND Site Tour
  • Registration and Log in
  • User profile and custom uploads
• SDG 15.3.1 indicator
  • Compute SDG 15.3.1 Sub-indicators
    • Computing Land Productivity
    • Computing Landcover Change
    • Carbon Stocks
  • Compute SDG 15.3.1 Indicator
• Calculate Vegetation Loss/Gain indicators
• Calculate Forest Change
  • Computing Forest Loss
  • Forest Carbon Emission
  • Forest Fire Risk
  • Computing Forest Fires
• Calculating Sensitivity to Desertification (MEDALUS)
  • Calculating Individual Quality Indicators
• Compute Wind and Water Erosion
  • Calculate Wind Erosion
  • Calculate Water Erosion
• Calculate Coastal Erosion
• Exporting Outputs
  • Export Map
  • Export Chart
• Download data
  • Downloading Raster Data

Qgis Plugin Guide

• Plugin Development
  • Modifying the QGIS Plugin code
    • Downloading the MISLAND code
    • Installing dependencies
    • Changing the version of the plugin
    • Testing changes to the plugin
    • Syncing and deploying changes to the binaries
    • Building a plugin ZIP file
    • Deploying the development version ZIP file
  • Modifying the Earth Engine processing code
    • Setting up dependencies
    • Testing an Earth Engine script locally
    • Deploying a GEE script to api.trends.earth
• Before installing the toolbox
  • Download QGIS
  • Install QGIS
• Installing the toolbox
  • Installing the development version
• Registration and settings
  • Registration
  • Updating your user
  • Forgot password
  • Advanced settings
• Calculate SDG 15.3.1
  • Calculate indicators with simplified tool
  • Calculate productivity
    • Productivity Trajectory
    • Productivity Performance
    • Productivity State
  • Calculate land cover
  • Calculate soil carbon
  • Compute SDG Indicator 15.3.1
• Calculate Vegetation Degradation
  • Compute Vegatation Indices
• Calculate Forest Degradation
  • Compute Forest Fires
  • Compute Forest Change and Total Carbon & Summary
    • Step 1: Compute Forest Change and Total Carbon
    • Step 2: Generate Carbon Change Summary
• Calculate Desertification (MEDALUS)
  • 1. Soil Quality Index (SQI)
    • a. Using default data (Computed on Google Earth Engine)
    • b. Using Custom data (Computed locally on device)
  • 2. Vegetation Quality Index (VQI)
  • 3. Climate Quality Index (CQI)
    • a. Using default data (Computed on Google Earth Engine)
    • b. Using Custom data (Computed locally on device)
  • 4. Management Quality Index (MQI)
  • Environmentally sensitive area (ESA) Index (Combined Desertification Layer)
• View and download results
• Load Custom Data
  • Load a dataset produced by MISLAND
    • Productivity
    • Land cover
    • Soil organic carbon
    • SDG 15.3.1 indicator
  • Load a custom input dataset
    • Productivity
    • Land cover
    • Soil organic carbon
• Download raw data
• Visualization tools

QGIS Plugin Training Material

• Calculate SDG 15.3.1
• Calculate Vegetation/Forest Degradation
  • Compute Vegatation Indices
  • Compute Forest Fires
  • Compute Forest Change and Total Carbon & Summary

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page