Sustainable Partnerships for Sustaining Life on Land: Using Earth Observations to Develop Nationally Validated SDG 15 Indicators in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

Patrick Jantz1, Ivan Gonzalez2, Jaris Veneros3, Jose Aragon4, Jamison Ervin5, Anne Virnig5, Andrew Hansen6, Christina Supples5, Scott J Goetz1, Oscar Venter4, James Watson7, Susana Rodríguez-Buriticá8, Lenin Beltran9, Freddy Valencia9, Juan Iglesias9, Patricia Huerta10, Gabriela Albuja11, William Llactayo12, Walter Huamani12 and Tatiana Pequeño12, (1)Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, United States, (2)Northern Arizona University, Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (3)Montana State University, Ecology, Bozeman, United States, (4)University of Northern British Columbia, Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, Prince George, BC, Canada, (5)United Nations Development Program, Geneva, Switzerland, (6)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (7)University of Queensland, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brisbane, Australia, (8)Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute, Bogota, Colombia, (9)Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica, Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, (10)Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), Peru, Lima, Peru, (11)Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, (12)Ministerio del Ambiente, Peru, Lima, Peru