The USG SilvaCarbon in collaboration with Boston University, The World Bank, and Google Earth Engine is supporting technical capacity for countries participants of the Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes (ISFL) to produce robust activity data following ISFL requirements and best practices. 

During a workshop to scope the needs of ISFL participants potential tools and methodologies to improve land use mapping were introduced to the five ISFL countries, and ultimately a workplan was developed. The first stage of the workplan with Ethiopia will build the capacity to fully satisfy needs for bi-annual land cover change information through innovative use of the Landsat archive.

 To achieve that a first training took place in Addis Ababa on July 8-9, 2019. The goals of the training were to:

(1) Introduced the Ethiopian technical team to LandTrendr and CCDC mapping algorithms. Training in CCDC and LandTrendr on the GEE on jurisdictional level that allows them compare results and pick a methodology to scale up afterwards.

(2) Introduced the Google Earth Engine platform to perform analysis of remote sensing data.  

 A second purpose of the  visit is to plan further technical assistance at a jurisdictional level to integrate regional land use mapping into the full scope of the green house gas inventory. 

List of Participants