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The global component of LADA provides a baseline assessment of global trends
in land degradation using a range of indicators collected by processing
satellite data and existing global databases. The main indicators are:
- Net Primary Productivity (NPP)
- Rainfall Use Efficiency (RUE)
- Aridity Index
- Rainfall variability
- Erosion risk
These indicators are then interpreted on the basis of a Global Land Use Systems map , which provides an overview of
the main factors due to human interventions that affect the development of land
degradation in a given area. These are:
- Land cover
- Urban and protected areas
- Livestock pressure
- Irrigation
- Crops
- Temperature and thermal regime
- Rainfall regime
- Dominant soils and terrain slope
- Population density
- Poverty
Enter the Global Land Degradation Information System - GLADIS (beta
version)
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