Geomatic Data for Land Degradation Surveillance

Dear Colleagues,

Land degradation is a foremost threat to sustainable development in a world increasingly submitted to human management. This has sparked a variety of current, scientific approaches to the problem, ranging from expert-driven observational and empirical assessment at the local scale, to fully deployed geomatic systems operating at regional scales. Many of them seek to meet the indicator and metric requirements of international initiatives, such as those of the Strategic Objectives of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, or Goal 15.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals. All of them converge on the need for reliable and harmonized input data in order to feed their respective methods, which is particularly important in developing countries where data availability may be a critical factor to join the above-mentioned initiatives. This Special Issue of Data focuses on such a need, and presents a collection of articles dealing with elements needed to seek, process, and visualize relevant data sources for land degradation surveillance.

Dr. Gabriel del Barrio
Guest Editor

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