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The GLCN initiative brings together national technical staff
in the field of Remote Sensing/GIS, Agriculture, Forestry,
Pasture/Rangeland, Environment, and Food Security to develop
a network at the regional and global scale to adopt the
standardization of land cover measurement methods and develop
regional and global land cover products. The collaboration
involves not only data providers but also data users and
policy-makers.
Regional HArmonization Programme (RHAP)
The GLCN RHAP initiative is a further extension/reinforcement of
the regional activities. The idea is to use the GLCN programme as a
catalyst to initiate a broad process of harmonization of thematic and
cartographic standards to analyze and monitor natural resources.
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Regional awareness workshops
GLCN organizes regional awareness workshops with the aim to disseminate
GLCN methodologies and approach to promote or initiate regional
collaboration on land cover projects.
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Other regional activities
Training workshops and other activities have generated substantial
interest in mapping institutions from numerous regions. As consequence,
various collaborations are already established to promote the use of LCCS
for land cover mapping initiatives.
Africa
- AFRICOVER:
GLCN is based on the success of the Africover project. It
was established to develop a digital georeferenced database on
land cover and a geographic referential for the whole of Africa
including geodetical homogeneous referential, toponomy, roads
and hydrography.
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- WEST AFRICA:
As follow-up to the West African workshop, a regional
consultant has been employed by GLCN to help countries
submit proposals for national and regional GLCN mapping activity.
Asia
- ASIACOVER:
It concerns the development and the application
of a multi-purpose environmental and natural resources information
base for food security and sustainable development in South East
Asia.
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Latin America
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National institutions of Argentina, Brazil and
Uruguay are developing a joint project to map a region on the
border of the three countries.
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National institutions of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile,
Ecuador and Peru, are developing a funding proposal for a
regional LCCS based initiative.
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