Conservation international (CI) has developed the trends.earth (http://trends.earth) tool to support countries in meeting their commitments to the united nations convention to combat desertification…

This federal contract award, valued at $75,926.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Conservation International Foundation (CI). The contract tasks CI with developing an approach to calculate Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 11.3.1, the ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate, and implementing it in CI's existing Trends.Earth tool. Trends.Earth leverages Google Earth Engine to allow users to process and use Earth observation data for SDG monitoring, particularly related to land degradation neutrality (SDG 15.3).

Under this cooperative agreement, CI will work with 10 pilot countries where NASA and CI have existing relationships to test the new SDG 11.3.1 calculation method, which will then be incorporated into the global Trends.Earth platform. This will enable the calculation of this SDG indicator from 30m Landsat imagery and population data across countries. The contract has no set-aside designation and the work is expected to be completed by December 31, 2020.

Conservation international (CI) has developed the trends.earth (http://trends.earth) tool to support countries in meeting their commitments to the united nations convention to combat desertification (unccd) and to facilitate calculation of the indicator for the achievement of land degradation neutrality, sustainable development goal (SDG) 15.3. Trends.earth is an innovative tool that leverages google earth engine to allow users even those with limited remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) expertise to process and use earth observation (EO) data, such as landsat and modis imagery, to calculate SDG indicators. To further enable the usage of EO data in support of the sdgs, CI will work with NASA to develop and implement an approach for calculation of SDG indicator 11.3.1, the ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate . CI will work with 10 pilot countries (ecuador, brazil, morocco, uganda, tanzania, kenya, south africa, madagascar, cambodia, and indonesia see figure 1) in which NASA and CI have existing relationships to pilot the method. CI will then implement IT in the trends.earth tool to allow calculation of indicator 11.3.1 globally from 30 m landsat imagery and population data developed by the center for international earth science information network (ciesin).