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Monitor land change

Trends.Earth (formerly the Land Degradation Monitoring Toolbox) is a platform from Conservation International for monitoring land change using earth observations in an innovative desktop and cloud-based system.

Track achievement of the sustainable development goals

The three sub-indicators for monitoring achievement of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN, Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 15.3), are supported by : productivity, land cover, and soil organic carbon. The tool also supports countries in analyzing data to prepare for their reporting committments to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

Trends.Earth allows users to plot time series of key indicators of land change (including degradation and improvement), to produce maps and other graphics that can support monitoring and reporting, and to track the impact of sustainable land management or other projects.

Trends.Earth was produced by a partnership of Conservation International, Lund University, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), with the support of the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

More information

See the general fact sheet or technical fact sheet for further information, or contact the Trends.Earth team.

Join the Trends.Earth discussion group to connect to the community of users. This is a great place to discuss any questions you might have about , or about monitoring land change.

The documentation and training materials, including a number of demonstration videos, are available on this website:

• About

• Background information

• Documentation

• Step-by-step Guides

• Videos

Note

Download this documentation as a PDF for offline use

About

• General information
  • Contacting the team
  • Authors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Citation
  • License
• Data sources
  • NDVI
  • Soil moisture
  • Precipitation
  • Evapotranspiration
  • Land cover
  • Soil carbon
  • Agroecological Zones
  • Administrative Boundaries
• Publications
• Frequently asked questions
  • General Questions
  • Installation of Trends.Earth
  • Datasets
  • Methods
  • Land degradation outputs
  • Future plans
• Development
  • Modifying the QGIS Plugin code
  • Modifying the Earth Engine processing code
  • Contributing to the documentation
• Changelog
  • 1.0.2 (August 14, 2020)
  • 1.0.0 (April 27, 2020)
  • 0.98 (April 2, 2020)
  • 0.66 (July 20, 2019)
  • 0.64 (July 9, 2019)
  • 0.62 (January 27, 2019)
  • 0.60 (December 3, 2018)
  • 0.58 (August 11, 2018)
  • 0.56.5 (May 21, 2018)
  • 0.56.4 (May 21, 2018)
  • 0.56.3 (April 21, 2018)
  • 0.56.2 (April 10, 2018)
  • 0.56.1 (April 10, 2018)
  • 0.56 (April 9, 2018)
  • 0.54 (April 8, 2018)
  • 0.52.1 (March 21, 2018)
  • 0.52.1 (March 21, 2018)
  • 0.52 (March 19, 2018)
  • 0.50 (March 15, 2018)
  • 0.48 (March 13, 2018)
  • 0.46 (March 13, 2018)
  • 0.44 (March 12, 2018)
  • 0.42 (February 4, 2018)
  • 0.40 (February 4, 2018)
  • 0.38 (January 16, 2018)
  • 0.36 (December 14, 2017)
  • 0.34 (December 14, 2017)
  • 0.32 (December 14, 2017)
  • 0.30 (December 12, 2017)
  • 0.24 (December 6, 2017)
  • 0.22 (December 4, 2017)
  • 0.18 (December 2, 2017)
  • 0.16 (November 6, 2017)
  • 0.14 (October 25, 2017)
  • 0.12 (October 6, 2017)
• Dataset coding
  • SDG 15.3.1 Indicator
  • Productivity
  • Land cover
  • Soil organic carbon
  • SDG 11.3.1 (sustainable urbanization)

Background information

• SDG Indicator 11.3.1
  • Background
  • Indicator and data needs
  • Land consumption
  • Population growth
  • Trends in SDG 11.3.1
• SDG Indicator 15.3.1
  • Sub-indicators
  • Combining indicators
• Before installing the toolbox
  • Download QGIS
  • Install QGIS
  • Installing older versions of QGIS
• Installing the toolbox
  • Installing the stable version (recommended)
  • Installing the development version (advanced users)
• Other resources
  • Reports
  • Fact sheets

Documentation

• Registration and settings
  • Registration
  • Updating your user
  • Forgot password
  • Advanced settings
• Calculate indicators
  • Calculate indicators with simplified tool
  • Calculate productivity
  • Calculate land cover
  • Calculate soil carbon
  • Compute SDG Indicator 15.3.1
• Plot data
• Download data
• View and download results
• Visualization tools
• Load data tool
  • Load a dataset produced by Trends.Earth
  • Load a custom input dataset
• About

Step-by-step Guides

• Installation and Registration
• Run 1-step subindicators
• Task status & download
  • OPTIONAL: Computing Pyramids
• Use custom productivity data
• Use custom land cover data
• Use custom soil data
  • Loading custom soil organic carbon data
  • Calculating soil organic carbon with custom data
• Load results and basemap
  • Adding a basemap
• Compute SDG indicator
• Interpreting summary table
• Forest and Carbon Change Tool
  • Compute and download forest and biomass data
  • Compute summary table
• SDG 11.3.1 - Land Consumption Rate
  • Exploring the Urban Mapper
  • Step 1: Built-up series
  • Step 2: Urban change
  • Extra: Water frequency parameter

Videos

• Video Overviews