GC51F:
Application of Forest Change Mapping and Error Estimation to Forest Carbon Financing Mechanisms and Rural Development Posters


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Session ID#: 50086

Session Description:
Methods to accurately estimate and track patterns of forest loss and gain have become more important as countries are expected to report on progress to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as part of their Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement as well as demonstrate results for forest carbon financing mechanisms. This session will highlight examples of forest change mapping at the country level, including methods to estimate and reduce the error associated with this mapping.  Results will be discussed in the context of requirements of current programs such as the Forest Carbon Fund. This session will explore key issues with existing reporting systems such as (1) improving methods for determining the relative importance of different drivers of deforestation (2) improving estimates of degradation and restoration (3) improved  integration of forest change data with other land use change.
Primary Convener:  Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States
Conveners:  Juliann Aukema, US Agency for International Development, Office of Global Climate Change, Washington, D.C, United States, Evan M Notman, US Agency for International Development, District of Columbia, VA, United States and Sylvia Wilson, Wilpa Capacity Development, Reston, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sylvia Wilson, Wilpa Capacity Development, Reston, United States
Chairs:  Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States, Juliann Aukema, US Agency for International Development, Office of Global Climate Change, Washington, D.C, United States, Evan M Notman, US Agency for International Development, District of Columbia, VA, United States and Sylvia Wilson, Wilpa Capacity Development, Reston, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States
Co-Organized with:
Global Environmental Change, and Public Affairs

Cross-Listed:
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6610 Funding [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Mapping and monitoring fractional woody vegetation cover in the arid savannahs of northern Namibia using machine learning, LiDAR and SAR data. (389744)
Konrad Wessels1, Frans van den Bergh2, Renaud Mathieu2, Nichola Knox3, Russell Main4, Laven Naidoo2 and Karen Steenkamp2, (1)George Mason University, Geography and GeoInformation Science, Fairfax, United States, (2)CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa, (3)Namibian University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia, (4)Precision Agriculture Group, Advanced Agriculture and Food Cluster, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa
Study on monitoring afforestation with Landsat time series images over Loess Plateau  (432929)
Jing Guo, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
An 1km global forest above-ground biomass map generated from multiple satellite products and ancillary information (425443)
Lu Yang, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, Liang Shunlin, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States and Yuzhen Zhang, University of Science and Technology Beijing, College Park, United States
Drivers of Deforestation in Peru: Impacts of Public and Private Governance (439809)
Christa Anderson1, Eric Lambin1 and Gregory Paul Asner2, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States
knowledge Management Framework for Monitoring State of Forests in Eastern Africa (434697)
Anastasia Mumbi Wahome1, Michael Ngugi Kimani2, Laura Mukhwana3, Abdi Gedi2 and Esther Mwangi3, (1)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya, (2)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, (3)CGIAR, Nairobi, Kenya
Quantifying the influence area of log decks in selectively logged areas in the Amazon with airborne lidar data (437767)
Maiza Nara dos-Santos1, Ekena Rangel Pinagé2, Marcos Longo3, Marcos Augusto Scaranello Sr1, Maria Hunter4, Douglas C Morton5 and Michael Maier Keller6,7, (1)Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Embrapa Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, Brazil, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)UFMT Federal University of Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brazil, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (6)US Forest Service San Juan, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, PR, United States, (7)EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corportation, Campinas, Brazil
Quantifying the Trade-off Between Cost and Precision in Estimating Area of Forest Loss Using Probability Sampling in Guyana (360049)
Jeffrey Pickering1, Stephen V. Stehman2, Alexandra Tyukavina1, Peter Potapov1, Pete Watt3, Samuel Jantz4, Pradeepa Bholanath5 and Matthew Hansen1, (1)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (2)State University of New York, Department of Sustainable Resources Management, Syracuse, United States, (3)Indufor Asia Pacific, Auckland, New Zealand, (4)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (5)Guyana Forestry Commission, Planning and Development, Georgetown, Guyana
Supporting silvo-pastoral NAMAs through satellite monitoring of livestock-forest interactions: deforestation, degradation, and regeneration (390884)
Rosa Maria Roman-Cuesta, Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia and Eliakim Hamunyela, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia
Wooden-building Life Cycle Carbon Footprint and Forestry Carbon Sink Assessment (377411)
Kuan-Hsien LI and Chyi-Rong Chiou, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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