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SEPAL

Forest and Land Monitoring for Climate Action

Year of publication 2022

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Synopsis (short abstract) System for Earth Observation, Data Access, Processing and Analysis for Land Monitoring (SEPAL) is an open-source project serving and empowering government agencies, research organizations, non-governmental organizations, companies and academia to gain a better understanding of land cover dynamics using the data, processing capacity and analytical tools offered by the SEPAL platform (sepal.io). Implemented by the Forestry Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and financed by an initial contribution from Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI), this flyer presents SEPAL second phase – Forest and Land Monitoring for Climate Action – a four-year project that aims to improve climate change mitigation plans and create better informed land-use policies, as part of a larger goal to make significant contributions to the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.

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