Capacity for Copernicus REDD+ and Forest Monitoring Services

Session 5 – Forest Emission Reporting (ForestER) Andreas Langner – Joint Research Centre (JRC)

REDDCopernicus Regional Online Workshop – Learning Exercises Sep – Nov 2020

Supported by: Partners:

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020 Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies – Space, Coordinated Support Action under Grant Agreement No 821880. Challenges

• Users might have different datasets that are relevant for single different REDD+ monitoring aspects without guidance how to best combine them

• Users have to use other general software to deduce REDD+ relevant information (e.g. using Excel sheet)

– Calculate change matrices (between different forest types) – Calculate activity data (deforestation, forest degradation) – Calculate activity data (regrowth) – Derive statistics and diagrams – Calculate emissions

REDDCopernicus Regional Online Workshop – Learning Exercises Page 2 Background

• Forest Emission Reporting (ForestER) as example of a GIS analytical tool

• GIS analytical tool allows Users to combine different service datasets, thus producing on-the-fly add-on values for REDD+ monitoring

• ForestER was developed under ReCaREDD project – ReCaREDD was EU project (2013-2018), launched by DG DEVCO and implemented by JRC – ForestER tool (included in IMPACT toolbox) is freely available

REDDCopernicus Regional Online Workshop – Learning Exercises Page 3 Capabilities

• Creating spatial information by combining

– Deforestation data (based on forest maps at two points in time) – Forest Degradation data (based on disturbance data)

• Creating carbon emission report based on

– Activity data (deforestation/ degradation information) – Forest type changes – Biomass values (assigned by User)

REDDCopernicus Regional Online Workshop – Learning Exercises Page 4 Input

• Pixel-based forest maps

– Two forest maps (at two points in time) – Optional: Forest maps can contain >1 forest types with correspondent biomass values – Optional: Forest degradation map • User can assign biomass values

– Values for deforestation events – Values for forest degradation events – Different values for different forest types – Alternatively: biomass map

REDDCopernicus Regional Online Workshop – Learning Exercises Page 5 Concept of ForestER

REDDCopernicus Regional Online Workshop – Learning Exercises Page 6 Concept of ForestER (without Additional Disturbance Layer)

Stable Forest Regrowth (partial biomass increase) Degradation (partial biomass removal) Deforestation (complete biomass removal) Afforestation (complete biomass increase) Non Forest

REDDCopernicus Regional Online Workshop – Learning Exercises Page 7 Concept of ForestER (with Additional Disturbance Layer)

REDDCopernicus Regional Online Workshop – Learning Exercises Page 8 Output

• Maps of activity and emission data Activity data Emission data

REDDCopernicus Regional Online Workshop – Learning Exercises Page 9 Output

• Report about activity and emission data

REDDCopernicus Regional Online Workshop – Learning Exercises Page 10 Added Value

• GIS analytical tool that allows: – Creating spatial information by on-the-fly combining • Deforestation (based on forest maps at two points in time) • Forest Degradation (based on forest disturbance data)

– Creating carbon emission text report based on • Activity data (deforestation/ degradation information) • Forest type changes • Biomass values (assigned by User)

– Adjustment of the emission report to country-specific situation

REDDCopernicus Regional Online Workshop – Learning Exercises Page 11 Conclusion

• ForestER process analysis interface allows Users to best combine various different datasets in order to obtain higher-level results relevant for REDD+ monitoring

• ForestER process analysis interface allows Users to automatically deduce REDD+ relevant information:

– Calculate change matrices (between different forest types) – Calculate activity data (deforestation, forest degradation) – Calculate activity data (regrowth) – Derive statistics and diagrams – Calculate emissions

• Delivery of text report, that can be inserted in actual report

REDDCopernicus Regional Online Workshop – Learning Exercises Page 12 References

• Team: A. Langner, F. Achard, H-J. Stibig, B. Desclée, S. Carboni, D. Simonetti, J. Gallego (Joint Research Centre - JRC) • Simonetti D., Marelli A., Eva H.D. (2015), IMPACT: Portable GIS toolbox image processing and land cover mapping. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JR C96789 • Website access to the tool: – https://forobs.jrc.ec.europa.eu/products/software/impact.php

REDDCopernicus Regional Online Workshop – Learning Exercises Page 13 Thank you for your attention

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Contact: forestry@gaf.de

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