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