Gfw presentation for wb master class 27march15

GLOBAL FOREST WATCH:

BRINGING BIG DATA ON FORESTS

TO CLIMATE POLICY

Dr. Nancy Harris, Research Manager, Forests Program

Photo: Ollivier Girard/CIFOR3

GATHER

ANALYZE

SHARE

GFW leverages a convergence of technologies . . .

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and a unique partnership…

Baker & McKinsey

Blue Raster

Bobolink Foundation

BP-REDD, Indonesia Gov’t

Cargill

CartoDB

Center for Global Development

CIAT, CGIAR

Climate and Land Use Alliance

Conservation International

Danish International Development

Agency

Dept. for International Development

UK

Digital Globe

Esri

Food & Agriculture Org, UN

FoodReg

Global Environment Facility

Global Forest Watch Canada

Global WItness

Google

Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation

Greenpeace

Imazon

IOI Loders Croklaan

IUCN

The Jane Goodall Institute

Ministry of Foreign Affairs , The

Netherlands

Mongabay

Muyissi

NASA Ames Research Center

NASA FIRMS

NASA JPL

Norway International Climate and Forests

Initiative

OSFAC

OSINFOR

Planet Labs

Rainforest Foundation UK

Reforestamos Mexico

RESOLVE

Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

SarVision

ScanEx

Swedish Intl. Development

Cooperation Agency

The Tilia Fund

Transparent World

UNEP / WCMC

University of Maryland

University of Minnesota

Unilever

United States Agency for International

Development

Vizzuality

Winrock

Woods Hole Research Center

World Resources Institute

Yayasan Puter Indonesia

Zoological Society of London

DATA USERS

Space agenciesNationalRegionalLocalCrowd

GovernmentsBusinessCivil society CommunitiesEducators

Make complex data easy to understand,decision-relevant,

and in near-real time

. . . to empower a variety of users

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Go to Global Forest Watch

http://www.globalforestwatch.org/

Combine data sets to tell a visual story

Do your own analysis

Or… explore our data by country

Add your story to the map

Download the data

What’s next?

CLIMATE CHANGE IS UPON US

Image: Wikimedia

Global Carbon Budget

(Billion metric tons per year)

Humans can

reduce

emissions

with clean

energy and

energy

efficiency

Humans can

manage lands

to reduce

sources and

enhance sinks

COMBATING DEFORESTATION

ESSENTIAL TO CLIMATE CHANGE

11% of CO2

from deforestation

and other land uses

Image: Aulia Erlangga, CIFOR

SECURING RIGHTS, COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE:

A WRI & RRI REPORT

COMMUNITIES HOLD THE KEY TO

PROTECTING THE FORESTS

OUR FINDINGS

OUR FINDINGS: RIGHTS ARE A SOLUTION

MAPPING COMMUNITY FORESTS WITH

GLOBAL FOREST WATCH

GLOBALFORESTWATCHC L I M A T E

Track carbon emissions from forest change

USE CASES

User Use Case

Governments seeking REDD+ funding

GFW Climate used as a starting point for setting national and sub-national reference levels and establishing MRV systems for REDD+. On-the-fly data analysis provides decision support in real time on how to design REDD+ programs cost effectively.

GFW Climate used as a dynamic capacity building tool where theoretical training material is transformed into applied, geographically relevant analysis

REDD+ donors (e.g. Norway, FCPF) GFW Climateused as an independent monitoring tool for evaluating REDD+ performance against information reported by countries.

REDD+ project developers GFW Climate used as a preliminary tool for REDD+ project design and estimation of ex ante project benefits.

All REDD+ stakeholders (incl. NGOs) GFW Climate used as a planning and implementation tool to facilitate more effective REDD+ interventions

How do we monitor forest carbon?

http://banr.nrel.colostate.edu/allometric-data-collection/

Method 1.

Destructive Sampling

(Impractical!)


Measure diameter (and height) of trees in a plot

Convert diameter and height to biomass with

allometricequations

Repeat measurements for many plots

Estimate average carbon stocks per

stratum

Method 2. Measure sample plots extrapolate

NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES

How much carbon is in different ecosystems?

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Land Cover Type / Climate Zone

Forest

Forest Plantations*

Perennial crops**

Grasslands***

Annual crops

* Includes tree species e.g. pine, eucalyptus, teak** Includes e.g. rubber, coconut, oil palm, coffee, cacao, fruit orchards, agroforestry systems***Grasslands store a large proportion of total biomass belowground in root systems, so carbon stock estimates shown

represent total live biomass (above- and belowground.)


Measure Lorey’sheight in a lidar

footprint

Convert Lorey’sheight to biomass

with allometricequations

Repeat measurements for many plots

Estimate average stocks

per pixel

Method 3. Measure sample plots extrapolate

REMOTE SENSING APPROACHES

Yu & Saatchi et al. In Review

NASA’s Global Ecosystem

Dynamics Investigation

(GEDI) Lidar

BIOMASS

ESA’s Earth Exploration Mission Radar


Method 4. Systematic satellite observations (2020+)

Stocks vs. Fluxes

Forest carbon stocks Carbon emissions from deforestation

What do users need?

We need your input!!

• Key datasets– Area of tree cover loss– Carbon stocks – Emissions from biomass loss

• Analytical Functionality– Combine data sets to tell a visual story– Do your own analysis

• Upload and analyze your own shapefile• Adjust time period of baseline• Select carbon pools to include• Modify data sources

– Explore data by country or subnational unit– Download the data

• Useful metrics


BETA VERSION HOMECARBON STOCKS GHG EMISSIONS

& REMOVALS

National boundaries

Subnational boundaries

Upload or draw a custom boundary


BETA VERSION HOME MAP BLOG PUBLICATIONS DATA METHODS ABOUT GFW

National boundaries





Baseline carbon emissions: xx Gt CO2e/year

Percent reduction from baseline: y%

Avoided Emissions since 2xxx: x Gt CO2e

Carbon emissions from tree cover loss

REFINE ANALYSIS +

National boundaries



Add Results to Analysis Dashboard

See Dashboard



Baseline carbon emissions: xx Gt CO2e/year

Percent reduction from baseline: y%

Carbon emissions

REFINE ANALYSIS X

National boundaries



Carbon Pools Included

Forest area dataUMD/GLAD

Areas to exclude from analysis

FreehandPolygonUpload shapefile

Aboveground biomassNASA JPL (Saatchi et al.)Woods Hole (Baccini et al.)Carnegie (Asner et al.)Country reportedFAO

Belowground biomassDead woodLitterSoil organic carbon

SubmitAdd Results to Analysis Dashboard

See Dashboard

Time Period for Baseline

Forest Definition

FAO

Reported to UNFCCC

Analysis Dashboard Save & Go Back to Map

Clear Dashboard

Export Dashboard

Results

Review Scenario Settings

Monitored Reductions to DateCarbon Emissions

Forest Carbon Stocks

Gross Tree Cover Loss

Emerging Carbon Emission Hotspots

Donor InvestmentsEmissions per ton of annual crop yield

Emissions Forest Loss

Emissions from Primary Forest Loss Carbon Stocks Per Pool

Average Total

We need your input!!

• Key datasets• Analytical Functionality

– Combine data sets to tell a visual story– Do your own analysis

• Upload and analyze your own shapefile• Adjust time period of baseline• Select carbon pools to include• Modify data sources

– Explore data by country or subnational unit– Download the data– Identify emerging hotspots within an AOI for deforestation and

emissions

• Useful metrics

www.globalforestwatch.org

@globalforests

[email protected]


Thank you!

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