Raja Ram Aryal¹, Deepak Kumar Kharal¹, Kabir Uddin², Milan Dhungana¹, Nishanta Khanal², Sajana Maharjan², Mir Abdul Matin², Yam Prasad Pokharel¹, Karis Tenneson³, Bimal Kumar Acharya¹, Prabesh Shrestha¹, Birendra Bajracharya⁴, David S Saah⁵, Walter Lee Ellenberg⁶, Poortinga Ate⁷, Farrukh Chishtie⁸ and Marija Spirovska Kono⁹, (1)Forest Research and Training Centre, Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, (2)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Geospatial Solutions, Kathmandu, Nepal, (3)Spatial Informatics Group, Pleasanton, CA, United States, (4)International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, MENRIS, Kathmandu, Nepal, (5)University of San Francisco, Geospatial Analysis Lab, San Francisco, CA, United States, (6)Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama, AL, United States, (7)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States, (8)SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (9)SilvaCarbon Southeast Asia Program, Bangkok, Thailand