Build and Delivery Elements

Build and Delivery: Requirements

Build and Deliver an End-to-end Prototype

Provides an Integrated Carbon Information System

Creates technical measurement and monitoring capabilities to assess carbon benefits of GEF and other program (future) carbon impact and benefits

Enables technical measurement and monitoring capabilities to promote Best Practices and positive socio-economic outcomes

Supports technical measurement and monitoring capabilities to enable policy and institutional context analysis

Build and Delivery: Requirements

System will have certain functional attributes:

Measure actual carbon stocks, calculate sequestered carbon at any given moment during project implementation.

Forecast feasible carbon targets for GEF projects.

Recommend policy/institutional changes to maximize carbon benefits or minimize trade-offs.

Support capacity development components of GEF and non-GEF projects for subsequent country and community use.

Build and Delivery: Outputs

Provides project design options to optimize carbon stock increases with livelihood benefits

Provides capabilities to asses carbon characteristics and carbon benefits of GEF projects

Provides access to agroforestry information for creating integrated sustainable agriculture systems

Optimizes multiple benefits within a smallholder carbon project

Build and Delivery: Design

Constructed on a previous approach called the Carbon PMMP: Protocols (P) that provide both tools and guidance

for measurement and monitoring of carbon in agricultural, agro-forestry, and forest landscapes

Measurement (M) that provide both above and below ground measurements of carbon on the landscape, considers all IPCC pools and is robust and statistically accurate suitable for project and program evaluation of carbon benefits

Monitoring (M) that allows for continuous measurements over time for on going evaluation of progress in program carbon benefits

Participatory (P) involvement of user communities with the GEF, UNEP and rural communities and their land managers.

Build and Delivery: Components

Integration of a suite of measurement and monitoring methods and technologies:

1. Ground based sample frame collection of in-situ measurements of above ground, belowground and soil carbon and nitrogen

2. Laboratory analysis of in situ samples3. Ground-calibrated remote sensing observations of

land use and cover, vegetation attributes and structure

4. Statistical analytical and spatial analysis of stratified samples and continuous fields

5. Numerical models 6. Local and program wide social/economic impact tools

and best practice tools

Build and Deliver

Aim: to apply emerging technologies to measure and monitor land use changes to provide accurate environmental and carbon risk information.

Global Environmental Services

(Climate change, carbon benefits, natural resource

management, biodiversity)

Technology Convergence

(Earth observation (EO) systems, Global Positioning

Systems, web-enabled Geographic Information Systems, location-based services, large mass data

storage)

APPLIED TO:

eastern

western

Fort Tenan

Eastern Sites

Western Sites

Fort Tenan Sites

Remote Sensing

Key Elements of Measurement

Ground measurements provide calibration and detailed sample frame analysis

Remote sensing takes the ground samples to extrapolate spatially to the landscape

Remote sensing characterizes spatial heterogeneity and land use

Spectral analysis provides rapid soil carbon measurement

GIS provides the data base framework for organizing spatial data

Carbon and nitrogen models provide ex ante calculations and detailed accounting

Web-enabled geospatial information systems to provide local and global access

The Technology Suite

Integrates all of these essential components through key components

•Ground measurement and calibration•Site characterization and planning•Carbon and Nitrogen accounting &

modeling•Access to web based spatial information

Carbon planner example

The Carbon Planner identifies high potential and high risk land use areas for land use carbon project. This tool is aimed at project developers

Fire / Disease Risk

Rainfall & Drought Risk

Biomass & Soil Carbon

Cadastral / Ownership Data

Criteria for Project eligibility

Carbon Planner – Carbon Risk / Opportunity MapGeospatially related databases

Geospatial Mapping

Carbon Risk & Opportunity

Analysis

Ground calibration is essential

Our methods and technologies provide the basis for accounting and reporting carbon for projects at the local scale.

Carbon Accounting Manager

Core System

Linking remote sensing to C and N models and databases

WWW

Groundmeasures

Localcommunities

Remote measures

Satellite – groundintegration

AnalysisGEF (markets)

TRFIC TechnologiesCarbon2Markets tools

Mature tress

Plantation plot

New trees

Natural forest

Remote sensing monitors for permanence and tracking carbon in biomass

5. Carbon and Nitrogen Portal

C/N Portal centralizes project information

and allows users to access and manage their carbon accounts from anywhere.

A Globally Distributed System

Monitoring multiple communities at one time

Carbon Measurement

Multi-resolution zoom capability

Mature tress

Plantation plot

New trees

Integration of in situ carbon and nitrogen with imagery

samples

In Situ: GPS, Digital Photos, Forest Mensuration (DBH, height)

50-60%80%

60-80%

100%

Satellite Image Biomass-Carbon Calculation

Carbon Accounting

Biophysical measurements

Forest density and type mapping in Thailand

LAI vs . FC (in GLA2.0)

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Fractional Cover

LA

I

LAI-4 vs. FC(%)

LAI-5 vs. FC

Leaf Area Index can be used as anInput to NPP-Carbon models

Hyper-rez tree crown detection

MODIS VCF collection 3

Component 3: 30m VCF

Mask water isocluster

VCF

merge

500m

30m VCF

30m VCF stdev

ETM+ radiometric correction (4,3,2)

Tasseled Cap Transformation (bright,green,wet)

VCF 500m

ETM+ isocluster

VCF 30m

Detailed View ETM+ (4,3,2)

Detailed view VCF 30m

Component 4: Change Detection30m VCF

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F/NF map>30% = Forest NF mask

∆ ≥ X

Tasseled Cap

Tasseled cap ETM+ (forested masked)

Tasseled cap TM(forested masked)

Bright

Dark

TM-ETM Change

(deforestation)

ETM+

Detailed View

TM

Acquired august 12, 2001 Acquired July 7, 1992

Forest/Non-forest mask derived from VCF 500m

VCF 500m Forest/Non-forest mask

Change deforestation shown in red

High resolution satellite monitoring of projects

New plantings

Older trees

Forest

Slashed

Burning

Agriculture, grass

Agriculture, bare soil

Applying Remote Sensing to Land Use Change

Land Cover Change: Inter-annual

Land cover Area (ha)

V-V-V 25666.02

V-V-NV 2579.49

NV-NV-V 3409.47

NV-NV-NV 1189.17

NV-V-V 2788.38

NV-V-NV 603

V-NV-V 2897.01

NV-NV-NV 1772.28

Shifting Cultivation Transitions in Laos 2000-2001-2002

Region east of Kingaroy, north of Nanango

Zoom in at high resolution

Region east of Kingaroy, north of Nanango. Small blue dots are waypopints. White is non forest/trees. Carbon sequestration range: 4-8 tCO2e per ha per yr (light to dark)

TRFIC Earth

User Defined Upload

GeoSearch, GeoZoom Upload Polygons GeoAnalyst, GeoBundle

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