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Activities of the GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Office
and GFOI R&D Coordination Component
Brice Mora
GOFC-GOLD LC / GFOI R&D Science Meeting, The Hague, The Netherlands
31st Oct. – 4th November, 2016
GOFC-GOLD Symposium 2013: main synthesis
points
• Maintain, develop further support to international policy processes (UNFCCC, UNCBD) and other international bodies (e.g., GCOS, IPCC, GEO)
• Advent of user specific LCLUC products (e.g., GFW) for different applications (REDD+, biodiversity and conservation)
• Gain international consensus on best practices and standards (legend, accuracy assessment)
• Move towards high resolution global-scale products, use of archived data
• Open and free access to data, methods, and algorithms
Land Cover Products at Moderate
Resolutions
• User requirements
• New LC concept
• Efficient prototype system
• 4 major products
MERIS FR & RR 7-day composites
SR time series from 2003 to 2012
3 LC state products
for the 2000, 2005 and 2010 epochs
Global open permanent WB map
Snow occurrence
VGT greenness
BA occurrence 3 LC condition products
Data access:
http://maps.elie.ucl.ac.be/CCI
/viewer/index.html
Land Cover Reference Datasets on GOFC-GOLD Portal
GLC 2000
GlobCover 2005
STEP
VIIRS
GLCNMO 2008
Urban Dataset
http://www.gofcgold.wur.nl/redd
A sourcebook of methods and procedures for monitoring and reporting anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and removals associated with deforestation, gains and losses of carbon stocks
in forests remaining forests, and forestation
Last version published in November 2015 (COP-21)
GOFC-GOLD REDD+ Sourcebook
UNCBD COP 13
SOURCEBOOK
A SOURCEBOOK OF METHODS AND PROCEDURES FOR
MONITORING ESSENTIAL BIODIVERSITY VARIABLES IN
TROPICAL FORESTS WITH REMOTE SENSING
Training Materials for REDD+ with FCPF
Background lectures Introducing and presenting the background; relevance of topic & overview of possible methodological options and approaches
Intended for: REDD+ national and international policy makers; Project managers and Technical staff
Practical examples of successful implementation activities in developing countries; experiences presenting different national circumstances
Intended for: MRV project managers & Designers and Technical staff
Practical exercises and short tutorials to provide simple hands-on exercises for implementation, data processing and analysis
Intended for: Technical staff
Background lectures
Module 1.2 Framework for building national forest monitoring systems for REDD+
Module developers:
Erika Romijn
Martin Herold
Brice Mora
After the course the participants should be able to:
• Understand the needs and priorities of a national REDD+ policy and implementation strategy
• Assess and characterize forest monitoring and reporting capacities of developing countries in different national circumstances
• Develop a roadmap for building sustained in-country capacities for REDD+ MRV
GOFC-GOLD training materials for REDD+ monitoring and reporting Module 1.2 Framework for building national forest monitoring systems for REDD+
Country examples
Non-forest
Biomass density map (in T dry matter) for 2007 for Mexico, derived from INEGI vegetation map (2007) and INFyS 2004-2008 plot data.
Practical exercises
Process for establishing a NFMS
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GOFC-GOLD LC Office Lead since January 2016
• Advertising of GFOI R&D activities http://www.gfoi.org/rd/
• Expert workshop on global datasets for NFMS
• Assessment of GFOI R&D impact on current donor practices
• Regional R&D Expert workshop in Mexico
• Science review paper on forest degradation mapping techniques
• Development of a Communication and Assessment Readiness Level
(CARL) framework, with Carly Green (MGD Component)
GFOI R&D Coordination:
accomplishments
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R&D topics of importance to elevate to
operational status (for future inclusion
in GFOI Methods and Guidance Doc)
Thematic topics Degradation (and enhancements) of
Carbon stocks
Degradation type mapping
Forest stratification methods
Forest/Non-Forest Change
Land Use/Cover Change
Above-ground biomass stocks and change
Cross-cutting topics Sensor interoperability and
complementarity
Uncertainty and accuracy
GFOI R&D Component –
Review of Priority R&D Topics
Available at http://www.gfoi.org/rd/
Active R&D Program
In respond to GFOI’s Research & Development Agenda ESA runs three projects investigating key research areas exploiting amongst others the recently launched Copernicus satellites Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2..
VTT (FI), University of Helsinki (FI)
Biomass estimation, sensor interoperability
Users: Min Environment in Chiapas and Durango (Mexico)
BlackBridge (CA), Wageningen University (NL)
Forest degradation, sensor interoperability for REDD+
Users: FAO and national REDD focal points
NORUT (NO)
Forest mapping, sensor interoperability for REDD+
Users: OSFAC (DRC)
ESA Innovator Projects for R&D
Project Factsheets: http://www.dlr.de/rd/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-4285/6899_read-45464/
Support to University research GFOI R&D groups
DLR R&D Grants to GFOI R&D Teams
R&D Team Nr. Scientific Focus Sensors used Region
HU & FU Berlin (P. Hostert, B. Waske)
SENSE CARBON: Improved mapping of REDD+ using deep and dense time-series and large area compositing approaches
Landsat, Rapid Eye, ASAR, TSX, Sentinel-1 /-2
Brazil Mato Grosso
FSU Jena, (C. Thiel,)
SEN4REDD: Development of integrated multi-temporal Processing chain for Sentinel-1 und 2 data to REDD support
Sentinel-1 Sentinel-2
Mexiko, South Africa
R&D Team Nr. Scientific Focus Sensors used Regions
Airbus DS / Univ. Hamburg (F. Poncet, M. Köhl)
Development of a cost efficient REDD+ Monitoring -concept by use of TSX/TDX and Sentinel-2
TSX/TDX Sentinel-2
SurinameIndonesia Ghana
RSS (Florian Siegert)
Estimation of forest height and biomass using multipass X-and C-Band POL-INSAR data (CSA parallel support to AUG Signals)
TSX/TDX Radarsat-2 Sentinel-1
Indonesia
Support to SME & industry research GFOI R&D groups:
Recent/Planned R&D Synthesis Workshops
Previous R&D workshops:
• May 2014: Sensor interoperability (Woods Hole, USA)
• Oct 2014: Forest Degradation (Wageningen, NL)
• Feb 2015: Vegetation Biomass (Brisbane, Australia)
• Sept. 2015: Forest degradation (GiZ/DLR, Bonn, Germany)
• Nov. 2015: Global datasets for national REDD+ measuring and monitoring (Wageningen, NL)
• 7-10 June 2016: Forest type and structure (Mexico City, Mexico)
• 31 Oct. – 4 Nov. 2016: Joint GFOI/GOFC-GOLD Science Meeting (NSO, The Netherlands)
Upcoming R&D Workshops/Conferences:
• May 2017: GFOI R&D invited session at ISRSE 37, Pretoria, SA