GFOI R&D and GOFC-GOLD Land Cover
Science Meeting

The Hague, The Netherlands

31 October - 4 November, 2016

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Background

Workshop objectives

The GOFC-GOLD LC-IT and the GFOI R&D Coordination component co-organize this Science meeting to review the recent accomplishments in tropical forest monitoring in the arenas of research, and implementation in developing countries. Specific activities from the GOFC-GOLD LC-IT, GFOI R&D research groups and its partners will be reported. The Science meeting will outline the specific research, applications and development needs that should be targeted by these stakeholders in the future. The Science meeting will be an opportunity for the GOFC-GOLD LC-IT and the GFOI to communicate on its advancements and on its ongoing and potential contributions to a series of international initiatives notably those related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and REDD+. In addition the Symposium will enable the members of the different groups and initiatives to meet other international experts. The outcomes of the meeting will enable the GOFC-GOLD LC-IT, and the GFOI R&D Coordination group, to provide its sponsors with updated scientific and technical information to support internationally coordinated initiatives such as those from the United Nations Division for Sustainable Development, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or those from the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), and GEO as a whole. Detailed objectives of the Science meeting are:

1. Present, discuss, and synthesize the achievements of the GOFC-GOLD LC-IT, GFOI R&D, and partners like Silvacarbon.
2. Discuss the new orientations the forest mapping and the global land cover research communities should take after the official launch of the UN SDGs, the outcomes of the UNFCCC COP-21 (Paris Agreement), and the evolving needs for observing land cover as an essential climate variable (ECV).
3. Review of the internal organization and coordination of the GOFC-GOLD LC-IT, and GFOI R&D Coordination component, but also their respective places and roles in the context of emerging needs related to international policy, on-going and emerging needs of the land and forest cover user communities.

Sponsors

European Space Agency (ESA)
Netherlands Space Office (NSO)
GFOI R&D Coordination component
GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Office
Wageningen University (WU)

Organizing Committee

Brice Mora
Martin Herold
Ake Rosenqvist
Anthea Mitchell
Nadine Drigo

Venues

Day 1 and 2: New World Campus
Spaarneplein 2, 2515 VK The Hague

Accomodation and transport

Please look at the background information document

General Agenda and Presentations

Detailed Agenda

 

GFOI R&D and GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Science Meeting
Monday, October 31, 2016
SESSION Introduction, Venue: New World Campus, Room Serendipity
9.00-9.10	Opening and welcome		M. Herold
9.10-9.20	GFOI intro		A. Moad on behalf of T. Harvey
9.20-9.30	GOFC and GFOI R&D intro		B. Mora
9.30-9.40	ESA welcome		F. M. Seifert
9.40-9.50	Silvacarbon welcome		A. Moad
9.50-10.00	Agenda and objectives		M. Herold / B. Mora

Agenda of the Biomass sessions (Day 1&2)

SESSION Biomass 1, Venue: New World Campus, Room Innovation Large area biomass mapping progress
10.30-11.00	Globbiomass: new products and approaches		C. Schmullius in behalf of M. Santoro
11.00-11.20	The 4th Mission – The need for a global plot based biomass reference		D. Schepaschenko
11.20-11.40	A prototype monitoring system compliant with IPCC Approach 3 for securing activity data: application to the Colombian Amazon		P. Olofsson
11.40-12.00	Integrating Earth Observation and Forest Inventory Data in Quantifying Biomass in Degraded Forests of the Republic of Congo		P. Olofsson on behalf of M. Hansen
12.00-12.20	Forest monitoringand biomass estimation for REDD+ with INSAR		S. Solberg
SESSION Biomass 2 Venue: New World Campus, Room Innovation Chair: A. Strahler TLS for tropical forest biomass estimation
1.15-1.35	Highly Portable Terrestrial Laser Scanners (TLS)		C. Schaaf
1.35-2.15	Weighing trees with lasers: Biomass & allometry estimation		M. Disney / K. Calders
2.15-2.35	Tropical tree biomass estimation in different tropical countries		H. Bartholomeus
2.35-2.55	TLSIIG activities and synthesis for biomass		A. Strahler
2.55-3.15	Discussion
Emission factors and uncertainties Chair: C. Schmullius
3.45-4.05	Addressing Carbon Emissions and Removals from Selective Logging In Support of MRV System Capabilities in Gabon		S. Saatchi
4.05-4.25	Emission factors for forest-related land use change and uncertainty estimation		M. Herold / V. de Sy
4.25-4.45	Model-based sampling for remote regions		R. McRoberts
4.45-5.05	GlobBiomass: Kalimantan as regional case		S. Lohberger
5.05-5.25	Estimating biomass and biomass change in different African forest types with different types of remotely sensed data		E. Naesset
5.25-5.45	Contribution of Trees Outside Forests in carbon stock and Limitations		D. Pandey
5.45-6.30	Discussions

Tuesday, November 1, 2016 SESSION Biomass Synthesis, Venue: New World Campus, Room Innovation Chair: M. Herold Introduction/status 9.00-9.30 Contribution of Trees Outside Forests in carbon stock and Limitations   P. Olofsson 9.30-10.00 Review of progress from Oslo June 2015 incl. decision tree and next steps for guidance P. Olofsson / R. McRoberts 10.00-10.30 General discussion on progress/guidance on using biomass datasets for national purposes All 11.00-12.30 Group/plenary discussions on new guidance 1.30-2.30 Discussion continued 2.30-3.00 Synthesis session     SESSION GFOI R&D teams, Venue: New World Campus, Room Serendipity Chair: A. Rosenqvist 3.30-5.30 GFOI R&D coordination component meeting See detailed agenda of the GFOI-coordinated R&D and CARLs sessions GFOI R&D groups 5.30 Closing of the day         Agenda of the GFOI-coordinated R&D and CARLs sessions (Day 1&2) Monday, October 31, 2016 SESSION R&D in support of the GFOI mission - Progress 1, Room Serendipity Chair: A. Rosenqvist Programme intro 10.30-10.50 GFOI R&D Programme: objectives and contributions to GFOI Methods and Guidance A. Mitchell 10.50-11.10 CEOS Satellite Data Support to GFOI R&D Activities A. Rosenqvist Forest structure and biomass estimation 11.10-11.30 Forest height monitoring and aboveground biomass variability in Indonesia s tropical forests   F. Siegert (Group 14) 11.30-11.50 Forest structural classification and above ground biomass estimation for Australia   R. Lucas (Group 11) 11.50-12.10 Practical Aspects of Integrating Field Plot Data with Remote Sensing A. Lister (SilvaCarbon) SESSION R&D in support of the GFOI mission - Progress 2, Room Serendipity Chair: A. Mitchel Forest monitoring and generation of activity data 1.15-1.35 Automated wide-area forest change monitoring with Sentinel-1 and TerraSAR-X D. Hoekman (Group 6) 1.35-1.55 Combining SAR and optical time series for monitoring tropical forest change   J. Reiche (Group 4) 1.55-2.15 Forest monitoring techniques with Forestry Thematic Exploitation Platform to support REDD+   T. Haeme (Group 9) 2.15-2.35 Forest, land cover and forest change mapping with SAR from ENVISAT/ALOS to Sentinel1/ALOS-2 in the Mai-Ndombe district, DRC   J. Haarpaintner (Group 17) 2.35-2.55 A prototype monitoring system compliant with IPCC Approach 3 for securing activity data: application to the Colombian Amazon P. Olofsson (Group 3) 2.55-3.15 Lidar-assisted estimation of degradation parameters R. McRoberts (USFS) SESSION R&D in support of the GFOI mission - Progress 3, Room Serendipity Chair: B. Mora Forest degradation and disturbance monitoring 3.45-4.05 How useful is forest canopy change detection for forest degradation monitoring? F. von Poncet (Group 15) 4.05-4.25 GFOI R&D and GOFC-GOLD Land Cover C. Thiel (Group 18) 4.25-4.45 Near-real time forest disturbance monitoring in Gabon from 2015 to 2016 using a combination of Landsat and Sentinel2 imagery C. Sannier (Group 2) 4.45-5.05 SAR-time series analysis and future opportunities with the NISAR mission J. Kellndorfer (Group 3) Tuesday, November 1, 2016 SESSION 3 Communication & Assessment Readiness Level framework (CARL), Room Serendipity Chair: B. Mora Introduction/status 9.00-10.00 A framework for Communicating and Assessing Readiness Levels (CARL) for REDD+ methods and tools   B. Mora 10.30-11.30 Break out group discussions on CARLs All 11.30-12.30 Synthesis discussion on CARLs All 1.30-2.15 SilvaCarbon R&D activities A. Moad 2.15-3.00 Update of GFOI R&D priority topics   B. Mora SESSION GFOI R&D teams, Venue: New World Campus, Room Serendipity Chair: A. Rosenqvist / A. Mitchell 3.30-5.30 GFOI R&D coordination component meeting - outcomes of the GFOI review by James Baker, - how can R&D coordination component better assist R&D groups?  - how can R&D coordination component stimulate donors to support R&D activities? - how to improve coordination and contribution with other components? -activities for next phase: annual report, meetings/workshops   GFOI R&D groups 5.30 Closing of the day

Agenda of the plenary session (Day 3)

Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Policy Workshop on GOFC-GOLD support to international policy requirements Venue Ministry of Economic Affairs, Room Veegenszaal Chair: Janetos
Opening
9.00-9.10	Welcome Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Netherlands Space Office		R. Grim
9.10-9.40	Overview and review of GOFC-GOLD land cover activities Words from M. Herold Wordsfrom A. Janetos		M. Herold / T. Janetos
GOFC-GOLD support and evolving requirements
9.40-9.50	Worldbank FCPF		M. v.d. Linden
9.50-10.00	WMO / GCOS		S. Eggleston
10.00-10.10	Contributions of GOFC-GOLD to the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI)		A. Moad on behalf of T. Harvey
10.10-10.50	Panel discussion		T. Janetos (moderator)
11.15-11.25	Land monitoring needs for SDGs		G. Scott
11.25-11.35	Land monitoring: information for better policy guidance An OECD perspective		I. Hascic
11.35-11.45	Space for sustainable development		J. Vis
11.45-12.30	Panel discussion		T. Janetos (moderator)
Afternoon session Venue Ministry of Economic Affairs, Room Veegenszaal Chair: Mora
New opportunities
1.30-1.45	Summary of international policy requirements		B. Mora
1.45-2.00	NASA LCLUC programme		G. Gutman
2.00-2.15	US Silvacarbon and collaborations with GFOI		S. Wilson
2.15-2.30	ESA, Copernicus and the Sentinels		F. M. Seifert
2.30-2.45	Global Forest Watch: Making remote sensing science transparent, accessible and applicable to the policy community		R. Petersen
2.45-3.00	GEO BON activities		A. Skidmore
3.00-3.15	Revealing the invisible: New techniques for ‘near-realtime’ satellite-based monitoring of forest and land cover change		V. Schut
3.15-3.30	Monitoring forests with Planet		P. Rosso
Discussion on future GOFC-GOLD strategy
4.00-4.15	Summary of presentations Words from B. Mora Words from A. Janetos (see summary report) Words from C. Woodcock		B. Mora/ T. Janetos / C. Woodcock
4.15-5.15	Discussion on how policy requirements evolve and how to respond to them		All
5.15	Closing of the session and drinks

Agenda of the Global Land Cover Mapping, Monitoring, and Validation Sessions (Day 4)

Thursday, November 3, 2016
SESSION Global Land Cover Mapping Activities, Venue Ministry of Economic Affairs, Room Zijlstrazaal Chair: Herold
9.00-9.20	A consistent 300 m global land cover and land cover change time series from 1992 to 2015 derived from milti-mission reprocessed archive		P. Defourny
9.20-9.40	Land cover mapping activities from Tsinghua University		L. Yu
9.40-10.00	Globeland30		L. Chen
10.00-10.20	Copernicus Global Land Service		B. Smets (VITO/JRC)
10.50-11.10	GEO Land Cover Activities		G. Geller
11.10-11.30	Boston university efforts		C. Woodcock/ P. Olofsson
11.30-11.50	Status of Global Land Cover Validation Dataset Development		C. Woodcock (Loveland)
11.50-12.10	Advancing global land cover monitoring		M. Hansen
SESSION Global Land Cover Validation, Venue Ministry of Economic Affairs, Room Zijlstrazaal Chair: McRoberts
1.30-1.50	Global land cover validation: trends and CEOS WGCV LPV		M. Herold / P. Olofsson
1.50-2.10	Validation of Finer Resolution Global Land Cover Data Products		L. Chen
2.10-2.30	Towards better use of global land cover  reference datasets and the related context of CGLOPS validation		N. Tsendbazar
2.30-2.50	Global land cover maps validation: current strategy for CCI Land Cover		P. Defourny
3.20-3.40	IIASA GeoWiki land cover map accuracy assessment activities		L. See
3.40-3.50	Status of Global Land Cover Validation Dataset Development		P. Olofsson (Loveland)
3.50-4.10	Stratified estimation combined with time series-based approach to land monitoring		P. Olofsson / C. Woodcock
4.10-5.45	Discussion / WG towards more joint and agreed efforts		All
5.45	Closing of the session