Abstract
This article reports a validation task and confidential interval estimation for SDG15.4.2 (Mountain Green Cover Index) and SDG11.3.1 (Ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate) based on earth observation satellite data and Japanese official data and statistics during FY2020 and FY2021. In addition, this article mentions empirical results for these two SDG indicators obtained in the observation data validation WG established in the MIC Meeting for Promotion of the Use of Big Data. Prof. Dr. Aki-Hiro Sato from Yokohama City University and Prof. Dr. Wataru Takeuchi from the University of Tokyo joined in the validation task on recommendation by the Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology and other members belonging to Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. This article also addresses issues recognized through the evaluation task for two SDG indicators and proposes some solutions.
