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1 Mapping the World's forests,! long ways and short ways Prof Iain H Woodhouse The University of Edinburgh

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3 CANARY ISLANDS TRIPOLI WESTERN! SAHARA ALGERIA LIBYA CAIRO EGYPT NOUAKCHOTT SENEGAL THE GAMBIA BANJUL GUINEA-BISSAU BISS CONAKRY FREETOWN SIERRA LEONE MAURITANIA GUINE LIBERIA BAMAKO YAMOUSSOUK C MALI BURKINA! OUAGADOUGOU GHAN TOG ACC NIAMEY BENIN PORT O- MALAB NIGER NIGERIA EQUATORIAL! ABUJ CAMEROO LUAND CHA N DJAMENA CENTRAL! AFRICAN REPUBLIC BANGUI DEMOCRATIC! REPUBLIC! REP.! OF THE CONGO GABO OF THE! CONG KINSHAS ANGOL BURUNDI ZAMBIA LUSAKA SUDAN KHARTOUM SOUT JUB UGAND KAMPALA RWANDA NAIROBI BUJUMBU TANZANI LILONGWE KENYA MALAWI ERITREA ASMAR ADDIS ABABA ETHIOPIA DJIBOUTI DJIBOU DAR ES SALAAM SOMALIA MOGADISHU Malawi WINDHOEK NAMIBIA BOTSWANA GABORONE MASERU SOUTH! AFRICA HARARE ZIMBABWE PRETORI LESOTHO MOZAMBIQUE MAPUT MBABAN SWAZILAND ANTANANARIVO MADAGASCAR

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7 Ecosystem-Edinburgh! The natural capital cluster Edinburgh Centre Carbon Innovat Global Development Academy!

8 global forest mapping global timely detail

9 global

10 The (origami) carbon cycle

11 The (origami) carbon cycle 4.3 added to atmosphere

12 The (origami) 8.3+/ /- 0.5 carbon cycle Kyoto REDD: Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation

13 Carbon fluxes in a forest Canopy Understory Soil

14 Carbon fluxes in a forest Photosynthesis Litter fall and tree death

15 Carbon fluxes in a forest Respiration Microbial respiration & Decomposition of organic matter

16 Carbon fluxes in a forest Fire (gas and soot)

17 Forests cover 30% of the total land area FAO (2005) Global Forest Resources Assessment

18 13 million hectares converted per yr: England Football pitch every 2 seconds FAO (2005) Global Forest Resources Assessment

19 Image from Wallpaperswide.com

20 There is no silver bullet! BIOMASS TanDEM-X TanDEM-L ALOS Landsat Modis ICESat Sentinel DMCii NovaSAR SpeCL

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22 (Maps by Robert Simmon, based on ASTER data.)

23 Optical satellites Can infer Can map Operational Low cost Clouds carbon change

24 A Solution? Data Assimilation (Mat Williams, etc)!! CARDAMOM DALEC: a terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycle analysis MODIS*LAI Pan.Tropical*Biomass DALEC Saatchi'et'al.'2011 HWSD*Soil*Organic*C p(x c) p(c x) p(x)!! Parameter probability p(x c) at each pixel derived using a Metropolis-Hastings MCMC algorithm Hiederer'&'Köchy,'2012 Dynamic(&(ecological( constraints Bloom*and*Williams.,*in*prep.

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27 Satellite radar for carbon (loss) mapping Global (?) Cloud free Carbon! from canopy height? Sufficiently robust? Not easy to process

28 Location of significant woody encroachment (green) or deforestation (red) Mitchard, E.T.A. & Flintrop, C Phil Trans Royal Soc B DOI: /rstb

29 C. Ryan, et al (2012)

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31 How well does satellite radar perform? Carbon cycle science? REDD, National inventory One size doesn t fit all Too complex CO 2 Not fit for purpose Out of time

32 Science vs policy 144 million tonnes TOTAL carbon in Malawi forest million tonnes of carbon lost every year in Amazon

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34 global timely detail

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36 Field data Operational Can measure carbon Most accurate Expensive Sampling strategy

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38 LiDAR Best way to Operational measure Targeted Topography Expensive carbon

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40 UAV LiDAR Low cost! (<$2 per ha) Speed! (weeks) Targeted! and so! fit-for-purpose Flies when! no-one! else will Stakeholder control

41 Riegl VUX-1 Yellow Scan

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45 YellowScan VUX-1 IMU included extra Weight (kg) Dimensions (cm) 15 x 15 x x 18 x 12.5 Power consumption (W) Max Altitude (m) Echos per shot 3 unlimited Range Accuracy (cm) 10 1

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47 satellites: optical radar radar UAV-lidar lidar UAV-lidar

48 Remember: there is no silver bullet but maybe a silver team.

49 Mapping the World's forests,! long ways and short ways Prof Iain H Woodhouse The University of Edinburgh

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