Land Forum

[Shantelle Wenske]

Welcometo the Mekong Land Research Forum online site that pulls together research on key themes around land governance in the Mekong Region. We hope you find this resource useful, and we would be pleased to receive feedback on its content and structure.

The Mekong Land Research Forum seeks to bring research and policy a bit closer together. It does this in part by making the research more accessible and in part by helping to distill the key messages and points of debate to provide clear information rather than overwhelm policy makers and other advocates for progressive policy reform.

The Mekong Land Research Forum online site was developed in 2015 by a team at the University of Sydney, as part of an exercise carried out with the Mekong Region Land Governance program. This exercise also included the writing of country papers on the political economy of land governance in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, and one Regional overview paper. The Regional Centre for Social Science and Sustainable Development at Chiang Mai University manages the resource as part of the Mekong Land Research Forum. Further information on the Forum is available here. An application form to join our research network can be found here.

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I actually work for the firm that developed Land Kit and have been a part of early testing and troubleshooting so it is exciting to see you trying it out! Alongside our testing of the different kits, we produced a website devoted to trying to help new users get going with the kits.

Its called CAMPUS and has tutorials, templates (simple and more complicated), and a bunch of descriptions and resources to help you understand the tools. We will be continuing to update this website as more versions and tools come out!

Also, I have attached template files here for your usage to get you started. Feel free to respond here or in a new forum page with any specific questions and I will respond as soon as possible. Also, if the issue you are showing here is something I can help with then please reply with the file you are working on attached to the post so I can look at it.

As someone who enjoys contributing to iNaturalist, I was excited to also participate in the bio-blitz through the platform. However, I was asked not to publish any of my observations, at least for now, as there is concern about potential trespassing issues.

I am very glad this occurrence data will be out in the world through herbarium records but am confused why iNaturalist data should be excluded. Both will be publicly available to anyone who cares to look and the inclusion of photos only adds to the dataset.

Has anyone else encountered similar sentiments? Are land managers weary because iNaturalist has a broader general audience? Or is this some early growing pains while we figure out what this platform means to the larger conservation community?

I look at the dunes here in NZ where our katipo have such a narrow habitat to exist in, and I think to myself, do I really want to see dozens of people traipsing through there? Fact of the matter is, there are! And the majority of them are NOT tread lightly types, so having more iNatters there to have conversations and change hearts and minds would be an awesome thing. Every time I go there, I have at least one conversation with a member of the public, usually someone curious as to why I am rummaging through the spinifex. I like to focus on how much they enjoy riding their motorbikes through the dunes, and gently raise the fact that they can DO that, and still be mindful of the katipo and stick to the existing trails through the dunes, rather than hitting the areas of spinifex that the katipo live in. And if we do what we do AND look after the environment, then no-one will need to stop anybody doing what they love doing! Once they realise you are not there to destroy their fun, they really do take an interest and start to value the habitat as well.

Basically, I need to have a variable for area across all years that uses a consistent method so it is comparable, and I would prefer to use the land area variable if available across those 3 years. Can anyone provide clarity for this for 1990 or know where I can find documentation about this? Thank you!

The SHAPE_AREA field gives the total area in square meters for each polygon in the NHGIS shapefile, so it generally excludes offshore waters (coastal and Great Lakes areas, which NHGIS shapefiles clip out) and includes any other internal water areas.

Today, I was wondering why the land is so small. We got a little bit of land from the multi-floor update, however the big bird update added bigger structures. Same with Alpha 33. @Olof and @Fredrik Will you be able to add more land to the existing land pieces you can purchase.

If you plan to do it on more than 1 map, writing a simple script might be a better solution than using a text editor - the best is to choose a scripting language that has built-in JSON decode & encode functions.

Aichata Kon is a young Malian activist with energy to spare! Her testimony takes us from her native region of Yanfoyila to Bamako. She tells us about her journey, that of a fighter for women's rights, and more broadly for the rights of peasants to access land.

The closing conference took place on 7 April. It is now available in French on the Youtube channel of Forum des luttes, in English on the Youtube channel of ECVC and in Portuguese on the Youtube channel of CONTAG.

We are organising 5 thematic online exchanges of one month each since June 2021 : Women and youth access to land; Landlessness and the Commons; Community governance of land; Agrarian reform; From local struggles to building effective regulations at the supranational level. Two discussions have already taken place. The current theme is effective regulations at the supranational level. For more information on the previous discussions:

Can you click on Details and provide the information or go to the log file and attach it here, please. This would help.

But I think the landcover data could not be download.

@lveci Can you check this?

So, it seems Google moved the data somewhere else, actually not Google, but the owner of the data bucket.

@oana_hogoiu, @kraftek can you check where this data is now located and update the CCILandCoverModelDescriptor?

Thanks for the advice. So can that be a problem caused by the download? I am attending a course on delay and data come from a drive, I have not tried to download data directly from esa but I can try and let you know.

Anyway, it seems also NDVI index cannot be visualized as the Land Cover Band.

I may be misunderstanding this option or using it wrongly but I have a vector layer of the lake I am interested in but wish to extend the shoreline by a couple of pixels to remove possible land/beach overlap etc. I can process the scene with any integer in the shoreline extension box but looking at the result between 0 (for shoreline extension) and any other value the masked pixels remains the same. Am I using this incorrectly or is it not designed for the purpose I am attempting to use it for?

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

The gist of it is I'm writing a paper about my friend's home, and I wanted to trace its historical records back as far as I can go. I've gone to the deeds office and started finding some names, etc. but it seems like it's a question of finding bits and pieces there; deeds are tied to names and not plats of land from what I can tell, plus Alamance broke off from Orange County in 1849.

and also when I'm looking for an airport I look for it on the gps, then head exactly towards it, but even though I look very carefully alot of times I can't find it...I use second best resolution so there isn't a control tower to look for, or a cluster of buildings or anything so I'm just landing on a grey patch

I like the bombardier seaplane, has decent control and I managed to land it kinda well, leastways I stayed on the runway and I discovered the magic of speedflaps...also how to I leave movie mode? I savedmy landing but even after opening the plane again it wouldn't quite movie mode

I have to agree with starting with a small general aviation plane, the more basic the better. A basic rule of flying (sim or real) is do not exceed your abilities. The 1 training flight XP provides has you do an IFR landing, running through this a couple of times helped me quite a bit.

The recent 8.x planes should be fine in 8.60. One possible area to watch out for is that the behavior of the autopilot changed in a number of subtle but significant ways from 8.50 to 8.60. Usually this isn't a problem, but if the plane has a subset of the autopilot controls they may not work the way the author intended.

I am also a relatively new pilot in x-plane (though I have yet to be a student pilot). I have had some flying experience and I understand well how aircraft fly. I still struggle a bit with making my landings better, but one instrument that can be your friend is the vertical speed indicator. You find it in just about any aircraft.

I find this a very useful tool for landing because it is a good reference for staying on a glide slope. To see if you are too high or too low, use that row of red and white lights to the side of most runways as you approach it. I believe they're called omni lights (correct me if I am wrong, I'm still a newbie). The rhyme would say "red over white, you're all right." and "red over red, you're dead (crash!)" and when all lights are white, well, you probably would know.

The National Brownfield Forum was established by DCLG (now DLUHC) and Defra in 2011. The aim of the Forum is to promote the sustainable use of land. It brings together private and public sector organisations to take an open and forward looking strategic overview of current and future land use issues including:

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