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Capacity Building - SilvaCarbon
South East Asia
Marija Kono
Sylvia Wilson
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Regional Activities
• GFOI series of workshops: As part of the GFOI Capacity Building,
SilvaCarbon will continue to deliver technical capacity support through
regional workshops. The proposed workshop topics were identified with
the participants during the 2014 GFOI workshops in Thailand and Nepal.
– Third GFOI Asia Technical Workshop – Radar data processing
– Fourth GFOI Asia Technical Workshop – Cost-effective biomass
mapping and carbon estimation
– Fifth GFOI Asia Technical Workshop - Accuracy assessment and
uncertainty analysis for GHG-reporting from the forestry sector
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Leverage with other programs - Regional
Community Forestry Monitoring – Costs/Benefits and Upscaling
• Lead organizer: USGS (funding available from WWF, USAID LEAF
• Potential partners: RECOFTC, SNV, GiZ
Regional knowledge exchange on Advancing Forest Degradation Monitoring
• Lead organizer: USFS, USAID LEAF
• Potential partners: FAO
Regional knowledge exchange: Allometric equations
• Lead organizers: USFS/USGS, FAO (tbc)
Wetlands Mapping
• Lead organizers: USFS, SWAMP
• Partners: ICCC, USAID LEAD, Wetlands International and others
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Study Tours
• Option 1 - Radar data processing: Intensive training for radar data
processing for selected participants from SilvaCarbon Asia countries in the
U.S. This is envisaged as a follow-up training from the GFOI radar data
regional workshop, probably as a two-week training, either at Woods Hole
or Sarvision.
• Option 2 - Working with time series: Building capacity to understand,
work with and apply time-series can help countries to improve their
historical data for reporting purposes, assess changes over time and better
understand forest degradation. A two-week study tour could be organized
for limited number of participants from selected countries at Boston
University, RSAC or other institutions.
• Option 3 (regional study tour) - Indonesia National Carbon Accounting
System: Lead organizer: USFS
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Nepal
• Provide available Earth observation data (current and historical)
(USGS/GFOI)
• Training and testing methodologies for remote sensing and ground data
integration – Subtopics to be defined, but could include training on in-situ
forest carbon measurement and analysis of physiological and ecological
parameters (USGS/USFS)
• Training on spatial and in-situ data management and archiving (USFS)
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Indonesia
• Indonesia is well ahead from most of the other countries in terms of
developing their MRV plan and they are also making efforts to streamline
the institutional arrangements. Potential SilvaCarbon support to Indonesia
is envisaged as a two-fold process: 1) advancing the INCAS program and
the national carbon stock assessment and 2) transferring knowledge from
Indonesia to other countries (see study tour).
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Philippines
• Work could be targeted to support NAMRIA, in order to capitalize on the
new USFS Climate Fellow that just started working there. The Scope of
Work is currently being defined and discussed, but based on some
preliminary insights as well as the request from Philippines at the regional
SilvaCarbon meetings, support could include:
• Improved accuracy assessment training – Use some of the existing funds
from USGS for trainers (Syracuse and Boston), and include training.
Include Forest Service specialist because non of this maps at Namria has
been ground validated.
• Digital image classification training
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Cambodia (in case there is familiarity)
• Technical external evaluation of their forest change maps – Have three
maps with different sensors (Alos Avnir 2, Palsar, Landsat and some areas
with quickbird).
Phase 1: First a detail questionnaire that cover topics such (official
definitions for the three maps, forest, deforestation and degradation.
Classes and forest types, plans and protocols for merging methodologies
if existing, c omputing capacity, replication capacity, purposes of the
maps, processes of data.
Phase 2: Comparing representative areas of change for each map, and
interpreting the three maps in these high change area to evaluate the
accuracy.
• Time series analysis for land cover – Method already tested for a woody
vegetation metrics in Cambodia at EROS. There will be some results and
we can work with the countries for areas of interest to develop metrics.
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Suggestions
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