People, Plots, and Pixels: The Role of Local CommuniGes and Indigenous Peoples in Forest Monitoring for REDD+

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1 People, Plots, and Pixels: The Role of Local CommuniGes and Indigenous Peoples in Forest Monitoring for REDD+ Drs. Alessandro Baccini and Wayne Walker The Woods Hole Research Center Chris Meyer Environmental Defense Fund The World Bank, February 8 th, 2011

2 Outline: WHRC: Who are we and what do we do? REDD and MRV WHRC pan-tropical forest mapping / monitoring Building government / NGO / indigenous capacity Technology transfer / materials development Summary and future work

3 The Woods Hole Research Center Science, Education, and Public Policy for a Habitable Earth The Center has inigagves in the Amazon, the ArcGc, Africa, Russia, Asia, Boreal North America, and throughout the United States. Center programs focus on the global carbon cycle, forest funcgon, land cover/land use, water and chemical cycles in the environment. We work in collaboragon with partners ranging from local NGOs and research centers to nagonal governments and the United NaGons.

4 Outline: WHRC: Who are we and what do we do? REDD and MRV WHRC pan-tropical forest mapping / monitoring Building government / NGO / indigenous capacity Technology transfer / materials development Summary and future work

5 REDD and MRV IncenGve based policy mechanism being designed to compensate tropical nagons for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestagon and forest degradagon. The majority of tropical nagons lack high resolugon, satellite based maps of their forests. ParGcipaGon in REDD will require tropical nagons to design operagonal forest monitoring, reporgng, and verificagon (MRV) systems that are reproducible, consistent, and accurate at nagonal scales. Satellite based remote sensing supported by field observagons is widely accepted as the most objecgve and cost effecgve tool on which to base the development of REDD MRV systems.

6 Pan tropical Mapping Project: Two Primary Components I. Pan tropical Mapping 2007 Above ground biomass 2007 Forest Cover ll. Capacity Building/Training Pan tropical forest scholars program Technical workshops on forest measurement and monitoring People Pixels Plots

7 Pan tropical Mapping Project Team WHRC Josef Kellndorfer, Wayne Walker (Forest Cover) Alessandro Baccini, Nadine Laporte, Scoc Goetz (Biomass/Carbon) Support Moore FoundaGon Google.org Packard FoundaGon NASA/SPOT Planet AcGon (Data) Sodware : ITTVIS/SARMAP, ESRI, Definiens Key partners/collaborators Boston University Sarmap JAXA/Kyoto and Carbon Science Team ASF/AADN CoordinaGon with GEO FCT and Clinton Climate IniGaGve

8 Mapping Above ground Biomass Best quality MODIS mosaic MulGple years Cloud free Screened GLAS shots MODIS 500 m composite Waveform metrics (tree height, height of median energy, etc.) Co located field plots Within GLAS shots GLAS 2007

9 Mapping Above ground Biomass 500 Amazon Basin DemocraGc Republic of Congo Baccini, S. Goetz, W. Walker, N. Laporte, M. Sun, D. Sulla Menashe, J. Hackler, P. Beck, J. Kellndorfer, M. Friedl, S. Samanta, and R. Houghton. New satellite based es1mates of tropical carbon stocks and CO 2 emissions from deforesta1on. In PreparaGon.

10 Mapping Forest Cover LocaGons of 17,000 ALOS/PALSAR radar scenes to be used for forest cover mapping. Tropical Africa = 5754 Scenes 76% from Jun-Aug % from Jun-Oct 2007

11 Mapping of Forest Cover Walker, W.S., SGckler, C.M., Kellndorfer, J.M., Kirsch, K.M., and Nepstad, D.C Large Area Classifica1on and Mapping of Forest and Land Cover in the Brazilian Amazon: A Compara1ve Analysis of ALOS/PALSAR and Landsat Data Sources. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth ObservaGons and Remote Sensing, 3(4),

12 Outline: WHRC: Who are we and what do we do? REDD and MRV WHRC pan-tropical forest mapping / monitoring Building government / NGO / indigenous capacity Technology transfer / materials development Summary and future work

13 Building Capacity in Forest Measurement & Monitoring Interrelated and overlapping activities spanning three projects: WHRC Pan tropical Mapping Project (Moore, Google.org, & Packard) WHRC/IPAM Forum on Readiness for REDD (Norad) COICA (Inter American Development Bank) People Pixels Plots

14 Pan Tropical Mapping Project Pan tropical Forest Scholars Program 12 Scholars/9 countries Government technicians/ngo specialists 9 CounGes represented: Bolivia, Colombia, DemocraGc Republic of Congo, India, Lao PDR, Mexico, Uganda, Viet Nam, and Zambia Program emphasizes: Tools and techniques for aboveground biomass/forest cover mapping Large area, nagonal level REDD MRV Open source sodware packages/available algorithms

15 Pan Tropical Mapping Project Technical Workshop Series Three workshops per year during each year of the project ParGcipants: governments, NGOs, and indigenous peoples Training emphasizes: The role of forests in climate change Forest monitoring in the context of REDD Satellite based monitoring methods Field based measurement tools and techniques Linking field/satellite based measurements for mapping Led by W. Walker (LaGn America), N. Laporte (Africa), A. Baccini (S.E. Asia) Bolivia 2008 Democra1c Republic of Congo 2010 Vietnam 2009

16 Forum on Readiness for REDD 2011/2012 Workshops Teamed with the Forum, COICA (Coordinator of the Indigenous Organiza1ons of the Amazon Basin), and EDF as part of a project funded by Norad. GOAL: To increase capacity of IP networks to analyze and provide inputs to REDD design and implementagon Workshops Held three technical workshops in 2010 on forest measurement/monitoring with indigenous technicos from Ecuador, Colombia, and Bolivia. Tracy Johns/IPAM IP Juan Carlos Jin1ach/COICA

17 REDD Readiness for Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon COICA (EDF/WHRC) funded by the Inter American Development Bank on a project that seeks to: Develop REDD readiness training tools tailored to Amazon IPs, Provide training in sustainable forest management/mrv tools/techniques, Train IPs in data collecgon for carbon, deforestagon, and community mapping, Assist in the creagon of community land management plans, Create a dialogue between IPs and governments about forest governance, and Assist in the development of IP owned/operated REDD projects. Kickoff Workshop Sucúa, Ecuador, October 2010) IPs Technicos from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Suriname

18 Workshops Accomplishments ( ) Uganda: ~40 par1cipants/7 countries November 2008 Ecuador/Colombia/Bolivia: ~80 par1cipants/3 countries September October 2009 Vietnam: ~30 pargcpants/7 countries November 2009 DemocraGc Republic of Congo: ~120 pargcipants February 2010 Kenya: ~20 pargcipants August 2010 Ecuador: ~25 pargcipants/6 countries October 2010 Indonesia: ~25 pargcipants/7 countries November 2010 Summary: 9 workshops/~340 pargcipants 21 countries

19 Technical Workshops: In the Classroom PresentaGons and pargcipatory exercises PresentaGon Modules: Forests, carbon, and climate change Basic remote sensing principles DeforestaGon and forest carbon mapping Local projects

20 Technical Workshops: Simplifying Satellite Remote Sensing

21 Technical Workshops: In the Field Field Training in Forest Measurement Introduce the primary tools and techniques tradigonally used to obtain biomass and carbon measurements on the ground. Layout of monitoring plots Determining what measurements to obtain and how Use of equipment for measuring forest trees Use of GPS and digital cameras ConverGng tree measurements to esgmates of biomass, carbon, and emissions

22 Technical Workshops: In the Field Vietnam 2009

23 Pixels Plots Capacity building acgviges have lead to field campaigns in: Bolivia Colombia Dem. Rep. of Congo Ecuador Indonesia Papua New Guinea Uganda Vietnam

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25 Outline: WHRC: Who are we and what do we do? REDD and MRV WHRC pan-tropical forest mapping / monitoring Building government / NGO / indigenous capacity Technology transfer / materials development Summary and future work

26 IntegraGng the use of Airborne LiDAR Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) Acquisi1on October 8 th, 2009 Beaver Pond ~1 km Profile along the far right side of the above picture. Depth of slice taken for profile is about 30 m and length is about 400 m. Dead tree detail nicely shows the resolu1on of the measurement.

27 ContribuGng to the Development of Google Earth Engine

28 SupporGng Google s Android Mobile Phone Project Google s Android phone together with Open Data Kit in support of measurement Create a data collecgon form/survey. Collect the data on the mobile phone and send it to a Google server. Analyze the data on the server.

29 Developing PracGcal Field Guides

30 Outline: WHRC: Who are we and what do we do? REDD and MRV WHRC pan-tropical forest mapping / monitoring Building government / NGO / indigenous capacity Technology transfer / materials development Summary and future work

31 Summary Our science and our capacity building is being undertaken at mulgple scales with stakeholders ranging from indigenous groups to nagonal governments. Our monitoring approach involves the smart integragon of field observagons with remotely sensed data at local to nagonal scales. IPs are in a posigon to be informed gate keepers of informagon about their land, monitoring their forests at the local scale while feeding MRV systems at the nagonal level. In countries where MRV systems are just now being designed, an opportunity exits to leverage exisgng and well organized IP networks to facilitate field data collecgon across large tracts of tropical forest.

32 Future Work ConGnue building capacity under the Pan Tropical Mapping project in Hold FORUM policy/technical workshops in the remaining six COICA countries in (Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Peru, Venezuela). ConGnue COICA IP REDD Readiness project with EDF in Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Suriname. Partner with individual countries to develop nagonal MRV strategies.

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