A side-event to be held on 12 December 2007
Time 15:30 – 17:30
In pavilion of the European Union (Brussels Room)
Assessment of forest cover changes in French Guiana
using satellite imagery:
Lessons for a post 2012 REDD regime.
Agenda and Speakers
Moderator: Olivier Bouyer, French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
15:30 – 15:40 Welcome address
H. E. Brice Lalonde, French Ambassador in charge of the climate negotiations
15:40 – 16:00 Monitoring land use changes in French Guiana from 15,000 sample units using 20m resolution remote sensing imagery
Nicolas Stach, French National Forest Inventory
16:00 – 16:15 The JRC/FAO sampling approach for monitoring forest areas from continental to regional Level: Case study over French Guiana
Dr. Frédéric Achard, European Commission Joint Research Centre
16:15 – 16:30 The FAO FRA 2010 Remote Sensing Survey: links with national forest inventories and capacity building aspects for developing countries Dr. John Latham, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
16:30 – 17:10 Roundtable with delegates from developing countries:
Mr. Vincent Kasulu Seya Makonga, DR of Congo, UNFCCC Focal Point
Mr. Etienne Massard, Gabon, UNFCCC Focal Point
Mrs. Gisela Ulloa, Bolivia, CDM National Coordinator
Dr. Wardoyo, Indonesia, MoFRI, Head of Remote Sensing Division
Snacks and refreshments will be served at the end of the side-event
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Executive Summary
The side-event will present a new approach developed by France to report on deforestation rates under the Kyoto protocol rules for its overseas department of French Guiana. The National Forest Inventory (NFI) has developed a specific method to report on forest cover changes using a sample of 15,000 plots analysed from moderate resolution (20-30 m) spatial imagery acquired between year 1990 and year 2006. This sampling method is derived from traditional forest inventory methods and provides high accuracy estimates. For this purpose, a full coverage of SPOT satellite imagery at 20m resolution has been delivered from the receiving station in French Guiana.
The JRC will then illustrate how the global sampling scheme of the joint FAO FRA 2010 / JRC TREES Remote Sensing Survey, developed to estimate rates of deforestation at global or continental levels can be intensified to produce results valid at national level, focusing on the case study of French Guiana.
FAO will then present the links of the FRA 2010 Remote Sensing Survey (Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010) with national forest inventories and the capacity building aspects for developing countries.
These methods could be potentially used by developing countries in the perspective of a post 2012 REDD regime, by adding the collection of field data (e.g. biomass) for a sub-set of the remotely sensed samples. Invited delegates from developing countries will discuss pros and cons, as well as the feasibility to replicate such sampling method for their forest inventories.
Detailed agenda of the side-event:
Part 1: Monitoring land use changes in French Guiana from 15,000 sample units
Under the Kyoto Protocol, Parties have to report on GHG emissions and removals resulting from ARD activities. France has to report on ARD activities for French Guiana, which is covered by around 8 million ha of tropical forest and for which no complete inventory on land use changes is available yet.
A SPOT-satellite mosaic of 175 orthorectified images (20 m resolution) was produced for the year 2006 and used together with georeference Landsat 5 TM images (30 m resolution) for the year 1990. Then a stratified systematic sampling scheme of around 15,000 sample points was then designed to estimate the land use in 1990 and 2006 and the land use changes between the two dates. Two strata were defined by the local State forest agency (ONF): one stratum represents about 15 % of the total area where most of the deforestation is concentrated and the second strata represents 85 % of the territory. The first stratum is covered by high sampling intensity (around 14,000 samples) and the second strata by a low intensity (1,000 samples). The land use change type for each sample was obtained by visual photo-interpretation of the corresponding satellite images.
Part 2. The JRC/FAO approach for monitoring forest areas at global level: case study over French Guiana.
The purpose of the FAO’s FRA 2010 / JRC’s TREES project is to reduce uncertainties in global estimates of forest area change using earth observation techniques.
This presentation will outline what appropriate satellite databases are available for measuring global levels of deforestation between 1990, 2000 and 2006. For global statistics, sampling schemes are seen as providing robust figures at economically feasible levels. Examples of how the scheme can be intensified to produce results at regional or national levels will be shown. Forest area changes were estimated for the Congo basin between 1990 and 2000 with circa 600 samples. For French Guiana, the global sampling scheme can be intensified to produce results valid at this ‘national’ level.
FAO will stress the links between its Global Forest Resource Assessment 2010 Remote Sensing Survey and national forest inventories. The capacity building aspects for developing countries will also be presented.
Part 3. Roundtable discussion
A summary of these methods will open the discussion which will focus on the following theme: “How to use this experience for a potential post 2012 REDD regime”? Delegates from countries aimed at participating in a future REDD regime, as well as representatives from international organisations, will be invited to comment on how they would consider the usefulness of such inventory methods for their specific national circumstances.
French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries EC Joint Research Centre
Paris, France Ispra, Italy
French National Forest Inventory UN Food and Agriculture Organization
Lyon, France Rome, Italy
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13th Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
The French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has the pleasure of
announcing a side-event on the "Assessment of forest cover changes in
French Guiana using satellite imagery: Lessons for a post 2012 REDD
regime in the global context." REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation
– Developing countries could receive financial incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) in a post-2012 agreement under a new approach proposed today by the Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP).
Additionally, developed countries would commit to financing emissions inventories and baselines so that developing countries could compare previous deforestation rates with their future rates. Pre-2012 pilot projects, such as creating Protected Areas, relocating agricultural activities to degraded lands and creating or expanding the indigenous reserves, could serve as models programs for the post-2012 phase.
The event is to be held in the pavilion of the European Union (Brussels
Room) on 12 December 2007. Time 15:30 – 17:30
The session will be opened by H. E. Brice Lalonde, French Ambassador
responsible for the climate negotiations.
The side-event will present a new approach developed by France to report on deforestation rates under the Kyoto protocol rules for its overseas department of French Guiana.
The National Forest Inventory (NFI) has developed a specific method to report on forest cover changes using a sample of 15,000 plots analysed from moderate resolution (20-30 m) spatial imagery acquired between year 1990 and year 2006. This sampling method is derived from traditional forest inventory methods and provides high accuracy estimates.
The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission will then
illustrate how the global sampling scheme of the joint FAO FRA 2010 /
JRC TREES Remote Sensing Survey, developed to estimate rates of
deforestation at global or continental levels can be intensified to
produce results valid at the national level, focusing on the case study
of French Guiana.
FAO will present the links of the FRA 2010 Remote Sensing Survey (Global Forest Resource Assessment 2010) with national forest inventories and the capacity building aspects for developing countries.
The methods shown could be used by developing countries in the
perspective of a post 2012 REDD regime to report their emissions, by
combing the remote sensing data with field data (e.g. biomass). Mr. Vincent Kasulu, DR of Congo, Mr. Etienne Massard, Gabon, Mrs. Gisela
Ulloa, Bolivia and Dr. Wardoyo, Indonesia, will take part to a round
table to discuss pros and cons, as well as the feasibility to replicate
such sampling method for their forest inventories.
Olivier BOUYER
Chargé de mission "Effet de serre et for?t"
Direction générale de la for?t et des affaires rurales Minist?re de l'agriculture et de la p?che 19, avenue du Maine 75732 PARIS Cedex 15 Tél : 33 (0) 1 49 55 51 35 Fax : 33 (0) 1 49 55 40 76 M?l : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.