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ReCover for REDD and sustainable forest management 1 An overview of the ReCover project, focusing on the Democratic Republic of Congo 04 October 2012, technical side event: Satellite based Forest Monitoring for REDD+ and other related purposes – State of Play and Future Perspectives Fabian Enßle, Department of Remote Sensing and Landscape Information Systems - FeLIS [email protected]

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Page 1: ReCover - d-geo.de · ReCover for REDD and sustainable forest management 15 Summary • Cloud coverage • No reference field data • Single sensor based products • Multi-sensor

ReCover

for REDD and sustainable forest management

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An overview of the ReCover project, focusing on the Democratic Republic of Congo

04 October 2012, technical side event:

Satellite based Forest Monitoring for REDD+ and other related purposes – State of Play and Future Perspectives

Fabian Enßle,

Department of Remote Sensing and Landscape Information Systems - FeLIS [email protected]

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ReCover for REDD and sustainable forest management

Outline

• ReCover project

• Methodology

• Data products

• Results

• Summary

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ReCover - Science Based Remote Sensing Services to Support REDD and Sustainable Forest Management in the Tropical Region

Duration: Nov. 2010 – Nov. 2013 FP7 programme (no. 263075) 9 partners and 5 service areas

ReCover project - introduction

http://www.vtt.fi/sites/recover/?lang=en

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Partners P1 - VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland – Coordinator, Finland

P2 - Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg – Dep. FeLis, Germany

P3 - Arbonaut, Finland

P4 - Colegio de Postgraduados ColPos, Mexico

P5 - El Colegio de de la Frontera Sur ECoSur, Mexico

P6 - GMV, Spain

P7 - Norut - Northern Research Institute Tromsø AS, Norway

P8 - Wageningen Universiteit (WU), The Netherlands

P9 - IDEAM (Instituto de Hidrologia, Meteorologia y Estudios

Ambientales):

Users – CONAFOR, Mexico – SEMANH, Mexico – CONABIO, Mexico – CONANP-RFSIPS, Mexico – OSFAC, DR Congo – Guyana Forestry Commission, Guyana – Department of Forestry in Fiji, Fiji – IDEAM/Ministry of Environment,

Colombia

Data coverage

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MEXICO

DR CONGO

GUYANA

FIJI

COLOMBIA

ReCover service areas

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Image mosaic maps: 1990, 2000, 2010 (optical)

Image mosaic maps: 2000, 2005, 2010 (SAR)

Forest/land cover map: 1990, 2000, 2010

Forest biomass map: 2010

Forest degradation map: 1990, 2000, 2010

Forest area change map 1990/2000, 2000/2010

DRC study site and products

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White line: Area of interest

Blue line: AVNIR-2 images

Red line: KOMPSAT images

Data coverage

Landsat ETM+ coverage (2001)

ICESat spaceborne laser data (2003 – 2009)

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ReCover - principal scientific approach

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Landsat 7 TM mosaic 1986 Landsat 7 ETM+ mosaic 2000 AVNIR-2 mosaic 2010

Image mosaic products

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Landsat 7 TM mosaic 1986 Landsat 7 ETM+ mosaic 2000 AVNIR-2 mosaic 2010

Forest / Non-Forest Map (optical): 2010-2000-1990

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Image mosaic products (SAR) processed by

2000 ERS-2 SAR

(VV)

2005 Envisat ASAR WS

(VV)

2010 Envisat ASAR APS

(VV,VH,VV/VH)

2010 ALOS Palsar FBD (HH, HV, HH/HV)

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Forest / Non-Forest Map (SAR): 2000-2005-2010

Envisat ASAR APS and ALOS Palsar FBD/FBS

2010

Envisat ASAR WS 2005 ERS2- SAR 2000

2000 2005 2010

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LANDSAT classification

1986

ERS-2 SAR classification

2000

LANDSAT classification

2001

Envisat ASAR classification

2005

AVNIR classification

2010

PALSAR / ASAR

classification 2010

Overall accuracy

(%)

82.11 (without clouds)

75.63 91.22 85.19 85.19 88.11

К coefficient

0.689 (without clouds)

0.456 0.812 0.681 0.685 0.749

Accuracy Assessment Forest/non Forest maps conducted by

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Biomass estimation

• ICESat/GLAS 2003 -2009

• Vegetation height

• Forest/Non-forest map (Landsat)

ICESat’s heights (pink & green ellipses = footprint) Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) point cloud (blue) Digital terrain model by ALS data

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Summary

• No reference field data • Cloud coverage

• Single sensor based products

• Field data acquisition 2013 • Multi-sensor approach

• Limited data for biomass

• Texture based methods (HR, VHR data) • Extended products from ICESat (canopy closure, volume)

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Thank you for your attention

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• Biomass processing • ICESat/GLAS product GLA14

• Vegetation height

• Forest/Non-Forest map through Landsat data

• Large scale vegetation height interpolation

• Calculating AGB by allometric equation from Saatchi et al. 2011

0528.23542.0 HAGBAfrica ⋅=

Saatchi, S. S.; Harris, N. L.; Brown, S.; Lefsky, M.; Mitchard, E. T. A.; Salas, W. et al. (2011): Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (24), S. 9899–9904.

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ICESat/GLAS data description

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