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SERVIR West Africa Land Use and Land Cover Task Force: Building a Collaborative Network to Support Capacity Development in the Harmonization of Land Cover and Land Use Mapping and Monitoring in West Africa

Foster Mensah
* ,
Paul Bartel
,
Jacob Abramowitz
,
Emil A. Cherrington
,
Mansour Mahamane
,
Bako Mamane
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Matieu Henry
,
Fatima Mushtaq
,
Antonio Di Gregorio
,
Amadou Moctar Dieye
,
Patrice Sanou
,
Glory Enaruvbe
,
Ndeye Fatou Mar
Version 1 : Received: 2 March 2024 / Approved: 3 March 2024 / Online: 4 March 2024 (09:53:33 CET)

How to cite: Mensah, F.; Bartel, P.; Abramowitz, J.; Cherrington, E.A.; Mahamane, M.; Mamane, B.; Henry, M.; Mushtaq, F.; Di Gregorio, A.; Dieye, A.M.; Sanou, P.; Enaruvbe, G.; Mar, N.F. SERVIR West Africa Land Use and Land Cover Task Force: Building a Collaborative Network to Support Capacity Development in the Harmonization of Land Cover and Land Use Mapping and Monitoring in West Africa. Preprints 2024, 2024030090. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.0090.v1 Mensah, F.; Bartel, P.; Abramowitz, J.; Cherrington, E.A.; Mahamane, M.; Mamane, B.; Henry, M.; Mushtaq, F.; Di Gregorio, A.; Dieye, A.M.; Sanou, P.; Enaruvbe, G.; Mar, N.F. SERVIR West Africa Land Use and Land Cover Task Force: Building a Collaborative Network to Support Capacity Development in the Harmonization of Land Cover and Land Use Mapping and Monitoring in West Africa. Preprints 2024, 2024030090. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.0090.v1

Abstract

The availability of current land cover and land use (LCLU) information for monitoring the status of land resources has considerable value in ensuring sustainable land use planning. Similarly, the need to provide updated information on the extent of LCLU change in West Africa has become apparent, given the increasing demand for land resources driven by the rapid population growth in the sub-region. SERVIR West Africa, a regional consortium jointly supported by USAID and NASA to foster the use of geospatial and earth observation data and science for decision-making on critical environmental and food security challenges, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), is building technical capacity in the sub-region to develop and implement harmonized regional land cover classification system for LULC change monitoring in West Africa, based on the Land Cover Meta Language (LCML-ISO 19144-2). This article focuses on the process, potential opportunities, outputs of this collaboration, exemplary use cases, and recommendations for the next steps.

Keywords

land cover and land use; land cover classification; data harmonization; semantic interoperability; ISO-19144-2; West Africa, geospatial.

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Remote Sensing

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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