Activities of the GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Office and GFOI R&D Coordination Component

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1 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 31 st Oct. 4 th November, 2016

2 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

3 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 LC state products for the 2000, 2005 and 2010 epochs VGT greenness Global open permanent WB map Data access: /viewer/index.html 3 LC condition products BA occurrence Snow occurrence

4 Land Cover Reference Datasets on GOFC-GOLD Portal GLC 2000 GlobCover 2005 STEP VIIRS GLCNMO 2008 Urban Dataset

5 GOFC-GOLD REDD+ Sourcebook 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)

6 SOURCEBOOK UNCBD COP 13 A SOURCEBOOK OF METHODS AND PROCEDURES FOR MONITORING ESSENTIAL BIODIVERSITY VARIABLES IN TROPICAL FORESTS WITH REMOTE SENSING

7 Training Materials for REDD+ with FCPF 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 Biomass density map (in T dry matter) for 2007 for Mexico, derived from INEGI vegetation map (2007) and INFyS plot data. Non-forest 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 Process for establishing a NFMS Practical exercises and short tutorials to provide simple hands-on exercises for implementation, data processing and analysis Intended for: Technical staff

8 GFOI R&D Coordination: accomplishments GOFC-GOLD LC Office Lead since January 2016 Advertising of GFOI R&D activities 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) 8

9 GFOI R&D Component Review of Priority R&D Topics 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 Available at 9

10 Active R&D Program

11 ESA Innovator Projects for R&D 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)

12 DLR R&D Grants to GFOI R&D Teams Support to University research GFOI R&D groups 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 Support to SME & industry research GFOI R&D groups: R&D Team Nr. Scientific Focus Sensors used Regions Airbus DS / Univ. Hamburg (F. Poncet, M. Köhl) RSS (Florian Siegert) Development of a cost efficient REDD+ Monitoring -concept by use of TSX/TDX and Sentinel-2 Estimation of forest height and biomass using multipass X-and C-Band POL-INSAR data (CSA parallel support to AUG Signals) TSX/TDX Sentinel-2 TSX/TDX Radarsat-2 Sentinel-1 Suriname Indonesia Ghana Indonesia Project Factsheets:

13 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