# Land Degradation Monitoring Toolbox

Monitor Indicators for SDG 15.3 and Land Degradation Reporting

The Land Degradation Monitoring Toolbox supports development of baselines and monitoring of land degradation using an innovative desktop and cloud-based system.

The toolbox supports:

- Monitoring indicators for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 15.3.1 (land degradation neutrality):

  > - Productivity
  > - Land cover
  > - Soil carbon

- Reporting to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

- Plotting time series of productivity indicators

- Mapping indicators of land degradation for tracking impact of sustainable land management or other projects

The toolbox was produced as part of the project “Enabling the use of global data sources to assess and monitor land degradation at multiple scales”, funded by the Global Environment Facility.

# Documentation

- Before installing the toolbox
- Installing the toolbox
  - Installing the stable version
  - Installing the development version
- Setting up the toolbox
- Downloading data
- Calculating indicators

# Authors

Contributors to the documentation and toolbox include Yengoh Genesis [1], Mariano Gonzalez-Roglich [2], Monica Noon [2], Lennart Olsson [1], Tristan Schnader [2], Anna Tengberg [1], and Alex Zvoleff [2].

The Land Degradation Monitoring Project is a partnership of Conservation International, Lund University, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and is funded by the Global Environment Facility.

The toolbox uses Google Earth Engine to compute indicators in the cloud.

[1] | (1, 2, 3) Lund University

[2] | (1, 2, 3, 4) Conservation International