Projects
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- Environmental Monitoring
- Biodiversity
- Chemicals
- Extractives
- Reporting
- Environmental Security
- Land Use Planning
- Natural Hazards
- Renewable Energy
- Natural Capital
Environmental country profiles
Environmental Monitoring
Development of a system of interactive and updatable country fiches for the analysis of environmental situations and performances of countries.
Internationally Agreed Environmental Goals (IAEGs) Monitor
Biodiversity, Chemicals, Extractives, Reporting
Help policy makers to keep track of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) memberships and related goals, to quantify the environmental states and trends of territories and to interpret the figures in terms of benchmarking and progress.
The World Environment Situation Room
Biodiversity, Chemicals, Environmental Security, Extractives, Land Use Planning, Natural Hazards, Renewable Energy, Reporting
The World Environment Situation Room brings together the data, information and knowledge generated across UNEP in order to fulfil the UNEP mandate: “keep the environment under review”. MapX is the geospatial component of the World Environment Situation Room.
Sustainable Development of Natural Resources in Afghanistan
Chemicals, Environmental Security, Extractives, Natural Hazards
MapX was deployed to establish the Afghanistan Environmental Data Center. Follow the Aynak Copper Mine case study to see the challenges being faced for environmental managers.
Flood model for Kerala, India, including climate change projections
Natural Hazards
In order to reinforce the adaptive capacities of the Kerala State to floods, a downscaled flood model was developed in the Kerala region. Climate change projections based on CORDEX were introduced according to the RCP8.5 scenario. Detailed maps of the water heights according to different return periods (from 10 to 500 years) were produced.
Global Risk Data Platform
Natural Hazards
Multiple agencies effort to share spatial data information on global risk from natural hazards, such as fires, volcanoes, tsunamis, floods, landslides, earthquakes, and tropical cyclones.
Haiti Environment and Energy Mapping
Land Use Planning, Renewable Energy
MapX is establishing a spatial database infrastructure to support UNEP's country programme and to pilot test mapping of renewable energy infrastructure.
Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation (Eco-DRR)
Natural Hazards
Integrated approach to promoting both sustainable and resilient development to disaster and conflict risks
Supporting country reports to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
Chemicals, Reporting
To help eliminate PCBs from the environment, MapX supports the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants by managing spatial data for countries reporting to the Convention.
Support for National Action Plans under the Minamata Convention on Mercury
Chemicals, Reporting
To help support countries reporting to the Minamata Convention on Mercury, MapX can be customized to create interactive data dashboards. View the global dashboard and the story map.
Swiss Data Cube project Geospatial Outputs Dissemination
Environmental Monitoring, Land Use Planning
MapX is collaborating with the Swiss Data Cube initiative on the dissemination of some of their project outputs, in the form of geospatial data, dashboards and time series.
EO-ALLert: Early-Warning to the Impacts of Alluvial Mining on Sensitive Areas Using Earth Observation
Extractives
Piloted in Colombia, EO-ALLert aims to provide the means for development agencies and authorities to identify priority areas to be preserved from the impacts of alluvial small-scale mining, which is often an informal activity.
DR Congo: Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Support
Extractives, Land Use Planning
As the extractives sector embraces increasing transparency, stakeholders face a series of new challenges. These relate to avoiding data fragmentation, duplicating and dispersing available data, and providing access to actionable information for evidence-based decision making.
Niger Disaster Risk Information System
Natural Hazards
The Niger government and UNDP have developed a disaster risk information system. Key geospatial risk layers have been published in MapX.
Somalia: Drought Impact Needs Assessment (DINA)
Environmental Security, Land Use Planning, Natural Hazards, Renewable Energy
The Drought Impact Needs Assesment (DINA) in Somalia was initiated by the federal government to create recovery strategies in response to climatic variability. Explore the spatial data catalogue.
Geospatial Mining Transparency through Copernicus and MapX (CopX)
Extractives
The project, piloted in Colombia, addresses the challenge of increasing transparency and equalizing information at mining sites using Copernicus satellite imagery. Geospatial layers generated by the project have been published in MapX.
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB): making nature’s values visible
Biodiversity, Natural Capital
Work with countries and companies to incorporate natural capital into their policy and decision-making processes. By developing natural capital dashboards and story maps we bring spatially explicit analysis to life and ‘work with nature’ to meet specific policy priorities of pilot countries.
Remote sensing in support of ASGM policy development and evaluation
Extractives, Reporting
Remote sensing techniques in support of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) policy development and evaluation.
The Nexus Environmental Assessment Tool (NEAT+)
Environmental Monitoring, Land Use Planning, Reporting
The Nexus Environmental Assessment Tool (NEAT+) is a project-level environmental screening tool for humanitarian actors working in situations of displacement. Explore the spatial data catalogue.
Caribbean Sea and Region environmental platform
Biodiversity, Reporting
Development of a regional environmental platform for the Caribbean Sea and Wider Caribbean Region, with a focus on marine biodiversity and marine pollution
EO-ALLert: Alerta temprana de los impactos de la minería aluvial en áreas sensibles mediante sensors remotos
Extractives
Alerta temprana de los impactos de la minería aluvial en áreas sensibles mediante sensors remotos.
Geospatial Information for Enhancing Sustainable Mining in Northwest Ghana
Extractives, Land Use Planning
Build, harmonize, and improve baseline geographic information for monitoring the sustainable operations of large-scale, artisanal small-scale (ASM) and low value minerals and mining (LVMM) sectors in a regional and policy context.
Probo Koala Environmental Audit
Chemicals, Environmental Security, Land Use Planning
In August 2006, the ship Probo Koala dumped 528 cubic metres of toxic waste around the port of Abdijan, Côte d'Ivoire. MapX supported spatial data management for the independent environmental audit.
Earth Observation Data Cube on Demand for Monitoring Land Degradation by Mining Activities
Biodiversity, Extractives
H2020 GEOEssential project is addressing the need for trusted sources of data and information to monitor the progress made on environmental conditions towards policy targets. Under this project, MapX has been connected with data cube technology to develop different pilots for monitoring land degradation by mineral resources extraction.
MapX in support of the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development
Environmental Monitoring, Reporting
Enabling access to geospatial datasets relevant for Plan Bleu, the Mediterranean Action Plan secretariat, regional activity centers and the contracting parties of the Barcelona Convention.
Nigeria: support to the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP)
Extractives
MapX is contributing to Output 2 of the HYPREP project: “Prioritization, implementation and monitoring of clean-up activities in Ogoniland by HYPREP staff is supported by the use of GIS data".
Sahel fragility and environment assessment
Environmental Security, Extractives, Land Use Planning, Natural Hazards
The overall objective of the project is to deliver a story map and data catalogue in MapX, that UNEP can use to support the World Bank in their fragility assessment of the Sahel.