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MRV & Reporting Status& Related Space Data Needs

ECUADORMARIO JIJÓN [email protected]

ANDREA BUSTOS [email protected]



Introduction

The Ministry of Environment, in accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador 2008, ensures a healthy environment, respect for the rights of nature. This institution is the one responsible for the development and implementation of the Monitoring system.

Forest governance goals

1. Improve administrative efficiency and forest control; 2. Consolidate systems of incentives for the sustainable forest management and its conservation;3. Generate information that eases decision-making; 4. Promote reforestation in both degraded and protected areas; and 5. Implement research, training and outreach programs.

National REDD+ Program

The Ministry is leading the process to develop the National REDD+ Program as a mechanism to reduce the rate of deforestation in Ecuador, which is considered a national priority.



Status of National MRV ImplementationCover and Landuse maps

1990 , 2000 and 2008

Deforestation rate1990 – 2000: -0.71 % (89.944 ha/year)2000 – 2008: -0.66% (77.647 ha/year)*2008 – 2012: -0.54% (65.880 ha/year)

Sampling Methodology

Ecosistems2012: 91 continental ecosistems, maps of:

bioclime, geoforms, phenology and biogeography

National Forestry Inventory2009 – 2012: Forestry Inventory, socioeconomic study and carbon maps.



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CURRENT SITUATION

1990 2000 2008

Baseline: Deforestation and Ecosistems

Monitoring Unit

20142016

2018

Land Cover and Land Use maps

Forest / Non ForestWall to Wall



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MONITORING UNITMAIN OBJECTIVEMonitor Ecuador´s natural heritage as the basis for defining public politics to ensure the sustainable management, conservation and restoration.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES• Permanently provide official, reliable and current information of Ecuador in order to promote suitable territorial management.• Monitor the dynamics of coverage and landuse, ecosystems, biodiversity and socio-economics.• Generate information to support the Forest Governance and Biodiversity



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Spatial monitoring• Update the national deforestation rate.• Update maps, such as: landuse, ecosystems and carbon.• Continuous monitoring on critical deforested and degradated areas. As well as conservation and reforestation zones. (early warnings)• Determinate the Reference Scenario.• Monitor emissions caused by deforestation• Develop the degradation baseline



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Biophysical and socioeconomic monitoring

•Validate coverage and ecosystems maps.•Collect Field information: temporary and permanent plots.•Collect and structure information about biodiversity.•Design and apply a protocol to obtain socioeconomic information.•Monitor REDD+ benefits distribution.•Identify deforestation drivers.



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Analysis and data modeling• Manage all the project information into a unique database.• Develop a web platform that allows public access to this data.• Generate reports, analysis, models and indicators that

are able to respond to the needs of MAE.• Generate protocols and publications for the Monitoring

Unit



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Methodological development

• Develop software to improve monitoring process• Implement methodologies in order to incorporate new

spatial technologies.• Generate protocols and national standards to control quality information.



Institutional arrangements

UN-REDD/FAO• Technical support for the generation of a sampling

methodology, to estimate deforestation rate for 2008-2012.

• Accuracy assessment of the historical maps• Technical and financial support to calculate carbon

map.OTCA• Technical support and Terra Amazon training• Supply technological equipment



Space Data Needs1. Deforestation rate updates with medium resolution and Radar satellites images every 2

years. ( Landsat 8 and Sar C/X- sustainable in time)2. Land use, land cover change, ecosystems and carbon stocks updates with medium and high

resolution and radar satellites images every 4 years. (Landsat 8 and Sar C/X)3. Forest – Non Forest map with medium resolution and radar satellites images every 2 years. 4. Validate the information with High resolution data (Rapideye, Quickbird and Formosat)5. One of the most principal data needs is the Digital Elevation Model (DEM), with a better

resolution ( 5mts) to improve the result of Monitoring Unit. (deforestation rates, degradation and ecosystem models)



Space Data Needs

ACTIVITIES 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Sampling

Images wall to wall LUCC

Presentation of results LUCC December

December

Images Wall to wall F-NF

Presentation of results F/NF

December



Current challenges & obstacles where GFOI assistance may be most valuable• Obtain current satellite images and fill information gaps .

• Improve methodologies, ecosystems map, national forestry inventory, land cover and land use change.

• Integrate different remote sensors data types or scales for spatial monitoring.

• Propose viable performance chains for deforestation monitoring

• Provide technical support and access to gross and processed data of the new satellites.

• Coordinate with remote sensors data suppliers to improve access to large areas at low-cost or free data for national forest monitoring.

• Implement viable methods for the preliminar degradation baseline.

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