Courses in development extend the scope to further subjects: Land degradation, soils and land tenure; Amazon and tropical forest risk.
02Nexşe
Maps and the globe for any place
Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow land, forests and soils on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.
Zanistên Erd û JîngehêAny placeTwin builder
The boundaries, names and designations shown do not imply any judgement on the legal status of any territory, or any endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Countries: Natural Earth (public domain).
03Nexşeya zindî
Habitat condition in the Nordic and Baltic region
Vegetation, land cover, fires and ocean productivity and warmth from NASA satellites, over the Nordic and Baltic region.
Nexşeya înteraktîf JavaScript hewce dike; lîsteya qatan û çavkanî li jêr in.
daily; Satellite retrieval; clouds and sun glint leave gaps
Nûtirîn di dema avakirinê de
2026-10-13
Çareserî
torê nêzîkî 1 km
Nediyarî
Satellite estimate of chlorophyll-a near the sea surface on the day shown, an indicator of plankton and ocean productivity; not a measure of fish stocks or harmful blooms.
Bi vê rêyê tê gihîştin
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, tenê piştî ku hûn nexşeya zindî destûr bidin
Wêneyê peykî. Rasterê peykî an modelî wekî peydakar diweşîne. Ewr, valahiyên şeritê û çewtiya wergirtinê valahî û xîrecir dihêlin; nirx nîşander in, ne pîvanên li cihekî ne.
Bi vê rêyê tê gihîştin
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, tenê piştî ku hûn nexşeya zindî destûr bidin
Bikişîne da ku bilivîne. Ctrl an ⌘ û zivirandin, pincandin an bişkojkan ji bo nêzîkkirinê; ji bo nirxên di bin nîşanderê de li ser bisekine; vegerandin vedigere herêmê.
Habitat condition, framed on the Nordic and Baltic region.Berhemên peyk û modelê wekî NASA diweşîne, her yek bi dîroka xwe. Nîşander in, ne nirxandinên tu cihî ne.
We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified).Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
MODIS land products (vegetation indices, gross primary production, land cover), NASA LP DAAC and LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified).Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), berheva agirê çalak a VIIRS 375 m, NASA LANCE; kaşiyên vektorî bi riya NASA GIBS. Reng ji nexşeya rengan a weşandî ji nû ve hatine xêzkirin; nirx li cihên ku têne nîşandan di nav şaneyên H3 de hatine navînkirin (hatine guherandin). Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
GHRSST Level 4 MUR analyses, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; distributed by the NASA Physical Oceanography DAAC (PO.DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified).Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
MODIS Aqua ocean colour, NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group; distributed by the NASA Ocean Biology DAAC (OB.DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified).Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
Berhemên VIIRS yên hema dema rast (lehî, germahiya rûyê erdê, berfa li erdê, refleksiya rastkirî), NASA LANCE; wêne bi NASA GIBS. Reng ji nexşeya rengan a weşandî ji nû ve hatine kişandin; nirx li şaneyên H3 yên ku têne nîşandan hatine navînkirin (hatiye guhertin). Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
ASTER GDEM berhemek METI û NASA ye (ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003, NASA LP DAAC); wêne bi riya NASA GIBS. Reng ji nexşeya rengan a weşandî ji nû ve hatine xêzkirin; nirx li cihên ku têne nîşandan di nav şaneyên H3 de hatine navînkirin (hatine guherandin). Wiha bide nîşan: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Spacesystems and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (2019). ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003. doi:10.5067/ASTER/ASTGTM.003. Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
Bi Natural Earth hatiye çêkirin. Daneyên nexşeyê yên vektor û raster ên belaş @ naturalearthdata.com. Giştî
Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; wêne bi riya NASA GIBS. Reng ji nexşeya rengan a weşandî ji nû ve hatine xêzkirin; nirx li cihên ku têne nîşandan di nav şaneyên H3 de hatine navînkirin (hatine guherandin). Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
Bûyerên zindî: NASA Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET); bûyer nîşanî ne û girêdanên çavkaniya xwe ya orîjînal diparêzin.
NASA GIBS: We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).
Qatên bijarte (5 çavkanî di lîsteya qatan de: zindî, pêşbînî, çavdêrîkirî û çarçove) dema ku têne vekirin krediya pêşkêşkerê xwe li ser nexşeyê û li vir çap dikin; pêşbînî derketina modelê ne û nîşanderên derivekirî texmîn in.
Qat û dîrok
Nîşandera nebatan a pêşxistî, 8 rojên gerok: MODIS Terra EVI, NASA LANCE · 13 Cotmeh 2026
Şewat û anomaliyên germî yên çalak: VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS), NASA LANCE FIRMS · 13 Cotmeh 2026
Land cover type (IGBP), yearly: MODIS Terra and Aqua land cover (MCD12Q1), NASA LP DAAC ·2024
Hilberîna seretayî ya gişt, giştiya 8-rojî: MODIS Aqua GPP (MYD17), NASA LP DAAC · 30 Cotmeh 2026
Anomaliya germahiya rûyê behrê: GHRSST MUR25, NASA JPL PO.DAAC · 12 Cotmeh 2026
Qebareya klorofîl-a ya okyanûsê: rengê okyanûsê yê MODIS Aqua, NASA OB.DAAC · 12 Cotmeh 2026
The subject, methods and measures and debates and bodies
The field and its scope
For land managers, foresters, soil scientists, restoration planners and analysts of land-related risk who need to read a forest loss map, a soil carbon stock or a degradation indicator and know what it can support.
Quantities and units
Methods and their limits
Each method is listed with what it assumes and where it fails.
What the field debates
Bodies that set practice, and the data they publish
Bodies and standards are named so learners can find and apply their published work; the Academy teaches their use and links to the publisher, and no affiliation is implied.
05The method
From a bare slope to a degraded hectare: how rain, slope and cover set soil loss, and soil loss a land decision
Rainfall erosivity, soil erodibility, slope and cover multiply into a soil loss rate; set against the slow rate at which soil forms, that rate gives the years until a topsoil is gone and the carbon it takes with it, and the comparison with a tolerable loss is the decision.
Sources:Borrelli et al., An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion(2017); Panagos et al., Global rainfall erosivity assessment based on high-temporal resolution rainfall records (2017); Montgomery, Soil erosion and agricultural sustainability (2007); Lal, Soil carbon sequestration impacts on global climate change and food security (2004); Cowie et al., Land in balance: the scientific conceptual framework for Land Degradation Neutrality (2018).
06Amûr
Erd, daristan û ax
Land, forests and soils at a glance
Open, 0
In preparation, 2
Also taught here, 2
Subtopics, 8
Drawn as a scenario fan: each course is a branch from today, in study-level order. The widening is the form of the figure; it forecasts nothing.Course codes from the curriculum; study levels L1 to L4.
Select corners to build a signature, then hover a line to read what each sector gives and receives.
Select corners · hover lines6 / 15 têkilî
Îmze
Cûrbecûrbûna jîndaran û hevkarên wê
Cûrbecûrbûna jîndaran tozkirin û axê dide xwarinê (0.6), rêkxistina hewzê avê dide avê (0.5) û derbasbûna zoonotîk û dermanan dide tenduristiyê (0.4).
W · E · I · F · H · B
Sektor
4 ji 6
Têkilî
6 ji 15
Girêdan
0.46 para ji tevahiyê
Têkiliyên herî xurt ên di lîstikê de
Food → Biodiversity· land conversion0.6
Water → Food· irrigation0.8
Water → Biodiversity· environmental flows0.6
Food → Health· nutrition0.7
Nirxên fêrkirinê ji bo herêmeke bajarî ya tîpîk, ne pîvanên ji bo ti cihekî. Girêdan berhevoka hêza têkiliyên di lîstikê de ye, wekî para hemû pazdehan.
08Standards and evidence
Standards and evidence, research and evidence, profile, what is changing and learning
Nexus Standards it teaches and relies on
Ew Nexus Standardsthe discipline teaches toward, grouped by master standard, with the disciplines that teach each.
RAF-120Pollution and Environmental Health RiskDi amadekirinê deFoundation, L1 Introductory, 6 hours (estimate), primary discipline: Pollution and environmental health
How the subject is practised in labs
Lab
What you do in it
Courses using it
Map lab
Read hazard, exposure and boundaries on real maps
2
Exposure lab
Overlay people and assets with hazard footprints
1
GeoAI lab
Apply Earth observation and machine learning to open imagery
1
09Konsol
How Land, forests and soils is taught, as a process you can run
Press Play to run this process from this page’s own data.
Field platforms of the ecosystem where the subject is studied and applied.
The two Foundry systems where it is practised
FoundryNXS-EOP systemDeforestation and land degradation can be seen from orbitChange room, Maps room
NXS-GRX systemSoil and land indicators are canonical risk dataData room
Foundry system pages describe what each system and its rooms are designed to do; the courses teach the methods these systems apply.
Across the ecosystem
11Beşdar bibe
Take part in Earth and Environmental Sciences
Ji kî bûna xwe dest pê bike.
12References
Core references and where to begin
Start with Foley, then Hansen, then Curtis.
13Pirs
Pirs, bersiv û têgehên sereke
Gelo xwendin li vir belaş e?
Erê. Her kurs û materyalê fêrbûnê yê Risk Academy, bi rêberiya Nexus Consortium, xwendina wê belaş e, bi leza xwe an bi komekê re. Beşdariya asayî tu xercê nîne; xebata bi pere, stajyerî û bûrs rêkeftinên cuda ne.
Temamkirina kursekê çi dide min?
Tomara temamkirinê: kurs, guhertoya wê, dîrok û tiştê ku hat nirxandin, bi awayê xwerû taybet e û tu parve dikî. Ew li ser hev kom dibe bo destkeftên dîsîplîn, beş û bernameyê. Tomarek diyar dike çi hat xwendin û nirxandin û jêhatîbûnê piştrast nake; ew ne lîsans, ne sernavê pîşeyî û ne rewşa kar e.
Dane û cih ji ku tên?
Her fakulte li ser cêwîyekî cihekî rastîn ê ji daneyên vekirî hatî avakirin ders dide; her qat peydaker, lîsans û dîroka xwe hildigire, û her encam li ser Academy çavkaniya xwe diyar dike. Nexşe û wêne ji bo fêrkirinê nîşander in, qet ne nirxandina cihekî ne.
How do I take part beyond the courses in land, forests and soils?
Şaneyeke jêhatîbûnê ji sê heta heft kesan ava bike, rêyeke hevpar bixwîne, erkeke bi çavdêrî di National Working Groups de bigire, an komeke ji saziya xwe bîne. Ji bo rêxistinan.
Têgehên sereke
Têgeh
Land degradation neutrality
A state in which the amount and quality of land resources stay stable or increase within an area and time.
Têgeh
Desertification
Land degradationin arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas caused by climate and human activity.
Têgeh
Land-use change
The conversion of land from one use to another, such as forest to cropland.
Têgeh
Soil organic carbon
Carbon held in soil organic matter, linked to fertility, water retention and emissions.
rêzeya Pergalên StratejîkBeşdar bibe
Ji vê rûpelê delîl bidin.
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