GEO Forest Carbon Tracking Task

Europe (ESA), Australia (CSIRO), Norway (NSC), Japan (JAXA), Canada (CSA), Brazil (INPE), USA (USGS), Thailand (GISTDA)

FAO, GOFC-GOLD

JRC-EC, Wageningen Univ, USDA, Woods Hole, Restec, NIES

Symbios, Google

What is CEOS?

28 space agencies

20 participating organizations

CEOS Virtual Constellations

Common requirements, independent satellites, compatible data (CEOS – Committee on Earth Observation Systems)

Atmospheric CompositionAir quality, CO2

Land Surface Imagingecosystem monitoring

Ocean Surface Topographyclimate variability

Precipitationweather forecasts

Ocean Color Radiometrymarine ecosystems

Ocean Surface Vector Wind

Forest Carbon Tracking – Task Force

Is it feasible to monitor the world´s tropical forests?

The need

An operational global network of national forest monitoring systems

Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of forest in the COP15 agreement

Network of Forest Monitoring Systems

Standards &

Methods

Satellite

In-situ

Carbon Models

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Forest& Carbon

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Forest & Carbon

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ReportingAccounting

Systems

Capacity Building

Product Requirements

National level Forest information (border-to-border) - to avoid ‘leakage’

Annual Change basis (i.e. time-series)

Resolution (best operationally available eg 25 m)

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Timeline of Forest Carbon Tracking Task

Standards, Methods Definition& Continuous Improvement

FCT National Demonstrators 2009

BrazilGuyanaMexicoIndonesia (Borneo)Australia (Tasmania)CameroonTanzania

Further expansion in 2010

Landsat Acquisitions over Borneo

173 ETM+ Scenes in USGS Archive from May – August 2009

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Initial Products: SAR mosaic of Borneo + classified image

2009 Borneo Island NDALOS PALSAR

JAXA / METI 2009

CBERS@INPE: 1 million images (2004-2009)

LANDSAT @USGS: 1 million images (Jan-Aug-2009)

GMES Sentinels @ESA-EC: Data will be open access (Sep 2009)

Open access data policies: a qualified success

23rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 2009

GEO FCT Data Portal[http://portal.geo-fct.org/ - official launch GEO-VI, Nov.18, 2009]

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