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User Stories and Inspiration


This page aims to support potential users by providing case studies of how these data have been applied successfully by users and countries.

The CEOS GST Portal is intended to provide a single point of discovery and access for the main datasets that might support the Global Stock Take process for the Paris Climate Agreement and the reporting of countries to it. The different datasets are categorised on the home page with full profiles of their characteristics and application. This page aims to support potential users by providing case studies of how these data have been applied successfully by users and countries. The case studies emphasise the benefits to the users, how they went about using the data, and seek to communicate lessons learned to inform and inspire new and potential users so that they might also benefit in their activities.
Paraguay

The US Forest Service and INFONA (National Forest Institute) developed a pilot methodology in Paraguay that ingests remote sensing and forest inventory data into a model to estimate aboveground forest biomass. The model uses field measurements of biomass from the Paraguayan NFI, lidar satellite data from the GEDI mission, the GLAD Landsat canopy tree cover dataset, and forest strata information to predict biomass.

Uganda

Most of Uganda’s farmers are smallholders who are particularly susceptible to recurrent climatic shocks, particularly drought. To build resilience, the Ugandan Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) sought to design and implement a social safety net programme for the northern Karamoja region.

GLAD

The Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) laboratory of the University of Maryland has created the first global map of tree canopy cover. It covers the loss and gain of forest mass from 2000 and is updated yearly. Case studies are presented for Guatemala, Paraguay, and Peru.