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General Infortmation
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MISLAND-North Africa is an operational instrument relying on the international standards for reporting SDG 15.3.1 and technical approaches allowing the delivery of regular information on vegetation cover gain/loss to decision makers and environmental agencies at the first place.

The core-service provides land degradation indicators for six North African Countries at two levels:

	- At the continental level(Africa) and five regional levels(North Africa, West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, and South Africa) where low and medium resolution EO are used.

	- At the pilot site level, where(customized indicators) can be developed, using medium resoultion data(landsat time series imagery and derived vegetation indices, combined with different satellite-derived climate data)


Get in touch with the team
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Contact the MISLAND-Africa team with any comments or suggestions. If you have specific bugs to report or improvements to the tool that you would like to suggest, you can also submit them in the issue tracker on Github for MISLAND-Africa.


Authors
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The MISLAND-Africa is a project by the OSS under the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security and Africa(GMES & Africa) framework that is co-funded by the African Union and the European Union.

Contributors to the documentation and to MISLAND-Africa include Mustapha MIMOUNI, Nabil KHATRA, Amjed TAIEB, Haithem REJEB, Toure SOULEYMANE, Anthony ODONGO, Vivianne META, Derick ONGERI, Grace AMONDI, and Brian CHELOTI.

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Aknowledgement
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Special appreciation to the Trends.Earth. Conservation International. Available online at http://trends.earth 
.2018. for providing input on the implementation of the SDG 15.3 and LDN indicators in MISLAND-North Africa, on the UNCCD reporting process, and also provided early input and testing of the tool.

The project also acknowledges the contribution of national and regional stakeholders; Algerian Space Agency(ASAL), ASAL (Algeria), DRC (Egypt), LCRSSS (Libya), CRTS (Morocco), AL-Aasriya University of Nouakchott (Mauritania) and CNCT (Tunisia) for the national level and CRTEAN and CRASTE-LF for the regional level


Linces
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MISLAND-Africa is free and open-source. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later.

This site and the products of MISLAND-Africa are made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). The boundaries and names used, and the designations used, in MISLAND-North Africa do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by OSS, or its partner organizations and contributors.

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