GC44A:
Application of Forest Change Mapping and Error Estimation to Forest Carbon Financing Mechanisms and Rural Development I


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Session ID#: 58921

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:  Juliann Aukema, US Agency for International Development, Office of Global Climate Change, Washington, D.C, United States, Sylvia Wilson, Wilpa Capacity Development, Reston, United States, Evan M Notman, US Agency for International Development, District of Columbia, VA, United States and Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, 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:

Estimation of forest cover change, its uncertainty and influence on GHG emissions and emission reductions in the Atiala Atsinanana Emission Reduction Program, Madagascar (Invited) (464329)
Andres Espejo Minan1, Roger Luc Andriamanalina2 and Daulphin Razafipahatelo2, (1)The World Bank, Climate Funds, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Bureau National de Coordination REDD+, Ministry of Envrionment, Ecology and Forests, MRV unit, Antananarivo, Madagascar
On the impact of omission errors on area estimates of activity data (411913)
Pontus Olofsson, PhD, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Using SERVIR’s Regional Land Cover Monitoring System to improve the integration of forest change data with other land use change at a regional scale (419406)
David Saah1, Karis Tenneson2, Kel Markert3, Ate Poortinga4, Nguyen Hanh Quyen5, Peter Potapov6, Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson7, William Ashmall8, Erik J Lindquist9, Daniel Wiell10, Khun San Aung11, Githika Tondapu12, Mir A Matin13, Kabir Uddin14, Gary Johnson15, Nicholas Clinton16 and Farrukh Chishtie11, (1)University of San Francisco, Environmental Science, San Francisco, CA, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)Researcher, Huntsville, United States, (4)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States, (5)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (6)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (7)Regional Visualization and Monitoring System (SERVIR), Huntsville, AL, United States, (8)USRA, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, (9)United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Forestry, Rome, Italy, (10)Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, (11)SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (12)NASA SERVIR - USRA, Huntsville, United States, (13)ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal, (14)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Restoring and Regenerating Landscapes, Lalitpur, Nepal, (15)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Pleasanton, United States, (16)Google Inc., Mountain View, United States
Integrating Spatially Exhaustive Mapping and Sampling for National and Regional Forest Change Assessments (Invited) (351578)
Peter Potapov1, Alexandra Tyukavina1, Svetlana Turubanova1, Yamile Talero2, Marc Steininger3, Jeffrey Pickering1, Amy Hudson Pickens1, Patrick Kuburhanwa Lola Amani4, Matthew Hansen1, David Saah5, Khun San Aung6, Nguyen Hanh Quyen7, Millan Dhungana8 and Naikoa Aguilar-Amuchastegui9, (1)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (5)University of San Francisco, Environmental Science, San Francisco, CA, United States, (6)SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (7)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (8)Forest Research and Training Centre, Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, (9)World Wildlife Fund - US, Washington DC, DC, United States
Evaluating the Performance of Sentinel-2 in Mapping Mangrove Extent and Species (363258)
Dezhi Wang, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China
Using 2-stage sampling approach to estimate forest loss uncertainty for the Emission Reduction Program in Cameroon (398649)
Tatiana NGANGOUM Nana1, René Siwe1, Christophe Sannier2, Hervis Ghomsi2 and Gabriel Jaffrain3, (1)REDD+ TECHNICAL SECRETARIAT, Yaoundé, Cameroon, (2)SIRS, Lille, France, (3)IGN FI, Paris, France

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