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moja global designs and develops software for use in integrated Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) systems designed to provide reliable information about the land-sector, to allow countries to better respond to issues such as climate change mitigation, land degradation, deforestation, and food security. The Full Land Integration Tool (FLINT) is currently moja global's flagship platform. Like all open-source organizations, moja global has contributors across the globe, both volunteers and professionals. moja global is housed as a collaborative project under the Linux Foundation, a non-profit consortium that develops and supports open-source projects.

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In this newsletter:

Moja global is an Official Linux Foundation Project
Where is moja software running? A Global Update
Moja Newsroom and Announcements

Moja global is now an official project under the Linux Foundation.

moja global has been established under the Linux Foundation and its Charter is available on the website here.

Countries, multilateral organisations, NGOs, and companies are invited to become members of moja global through a simple Participation Agreement. Members will have a seat on the Board. More information regarding the Participation Agreements can be found on our website here.

Technical contributions are open to anybody and are coordinated by the Technical Steering Committee.

You can read the details about your role in the governance of moja global on the website

Where is moja software running? A Global Update

Tanzania
In collaboration with the FAO, the Australian National University, and the Tanzanian National Carbon Monitoring Centre, members of the moja global team implemented and tested the FLINT for Tanzania. This test run used a mix of global and nationally-specific data to produce a combined Tier 1 and 2 spatially-explicit simulation for emissions and removals for deforestation and reforestation for the entire country from 2000 -2014. The project included the testing and use of new Business Intelligence (BI) tools to analyse the results. These tools allow scientists and policy makers to query the results and develop reports using user friendly interfaces and provide a clear example of how background complexity can be hidden from the user by using modern analytical tools.

Canada
The Generic Carbon Budget Model (GCBM) has been applied, based on the Canadian CBM-CFS3 running on the FLINT platform, to an 8 million ha area of the Northwest Territories of Canada to test new methods for the development of forest inventories using remote sensing data and to simulate forest growth and fire disturbances. The simulation involved 214 Million active pixels at 0.00025-degree resolution and was conducted for the period 1990 to 2016 in annual time steps. Total run time was about 20 hours on 3 computers (120 processor cores).

Korea
The Canadian Forest Service in collaboration with Korea University applied the GCBM on the FLINT platform to 6 Mha of forests in South Korea at 1 ha spatial resolution. The simulation represented forest growth and forest management activities for the period 1991 to 2064 in annual time steps. It took less than 2 weeks to set up the model with relevant input data for Korea, including historic and projected future forest management data. The simulations for 6 million active pixels took 3 hours on a single 40-core computer.

Kenya
Over the past 3 years the Government of Kenya has designed and developed the SLEEK system, including analysis of policy and reporting needs, selection of the integration systems and the collation and collection of data to support emissions estimation across the land sector. The first full run of the system occurred in November 2016 and covered all forestland pools, soil pools in cropland and grasslands, and conversions between them annually from 1990 to 2015 by integrating Kenya specific emissions estimation methods with 16 Kenya specific land cover maps. The Government of Kenya is now developing a continuous improvement program for the system that includes moving more land uses to Tier 3 and expanding the coverage of the system. Kenya has also placed responsibility for the system within Government and is working to finalise the governance and institutional arrangement required for sustainability of the SLEEK system.

Mexico
Work continues on the application of the GCBM-FLINT in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico as reported in the first moja newsletter.

Moja global highlighted in the Newsletter of the GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Project Office. Read below.

New Tools and Systems to Estimate Land-Sector Emissions
As more countries develop systems for Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) it is becoming clear that there are very few tools that can effectively integrate the volume and range of remote sensing and ground data currently being collected to produce estimates of greenhouse gas emissions and removals. This is particularly the case as countries move beyond reporting of past emissions, and seek to conduct analyses of land-sector mitigation analyses to achieve their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) of emission reduction targets. And once mitigation actions are implemented, countries have a need for verifiable and transparent estimates of emission reductions to access results- based payments for climate services. With many countries planning to include the land sector in their efforts to mitigate emissions and with a rapid increase in earth observation data, the need for integrating systems has never been greater.... Read More

Moja global article published on EuroScientist, the official journal of EuroScience. Read below.

Case study of remote sensing software shows the benefits of an open collaborative approach.
In December 2015, the COP21 Paris Agreement saw many countries commit to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through initiatives in the land sector. In this context, emissions estimation systems will be key in ensuring these targets are met. Such solutions would not only be capable of assessing past trends but also of supporting target setting, tracking progress and helping to develop scenarios to inform policy decisions.
The core of these emissions estimation systems rely on software. Now is the time to realise that this kind of software will lead to greater benefits if developed using an open governance approach. This means involving all organisations who have a stake in the land use monitoring debate. We hope that the case of moja global, outlined below, will inspire others to adopt an open governance model... Read more

Want to know more about moja global and the FLINT?

Join the webinars.

The moja global team is running series of webinars for those interested in the various aspects of moja global and the FLINT. Each webinar covers a different aspect of the organisation and tools. The webinars will be held in March and April, with the exact dates based on the number and location of those interested. Please send us an email at info@moja.global with your details if you would like to participate.

You can find more information on our website here

moja global fact sheets are now available on moja.global website
Fact sheets providing overviews and answers to frequently asked questions regarding moja global and the FLINT are now available on the moja global website. Access these documents on the website here

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