MRV & Reporting Status & Related Space Data Needs COLOMBIA EDERSSON CABRERA M. Coordinator Forest and Carbon Monitoring System SDCG-7 Sydney, Australia March 4 th – 6 th 2015

MODIS MOD13A Landsat 5/7/8 ALOS PALSAR ScanSAR Landsat RapidEye ALOS PALSAR (FBS-FBD) Spot 5-6 Status of National MRV Implementation 2 Integrating remote- sensing and ground-based data for Forest monitoring.

Space Data Needs. Based on actual available sensors. Semi-annual early warning System. Coarse resolution datasets – SAR. Best L band sensors or C/X band. Wide Beam modes. – Optical. Coarse resolutions, MODIS/LISS sensors. Annual wall-to-wall. Medium resolutions datasets. – Landsat 8. Dedicated connection for the whole catalog. Pixel by pixel co-registered. – SAR. Best L band sensors or C/X band. Fine Beam modes. At least for the Pacific region whole coverage. SDCG-4, Caltech, CA, USA 4 th -6 th September 2013

Annual wall-to-wall. Medium resolutions datasets. – Other medium resolutions catalogues (SPOT 5, LISS III/IV, next CBERS. – Validation based on stratified sample of High resolution images (i.e. spot 5/6, RapidEye, QB, Ikonos, Formosat). DEM. National cover at the major resolution for pre-processing steps of Optical/SAR catalogues (SRTM, SRTM-ASTER, TanDEM). Space Data Needs. Based on actual available sensors. SDCG-4, Caltech, CA, USA 4 th -6 th September 2013

Plans: – SAR Interferometric catalogues for precision change cover analysis. Actually this information is not available for the country. – SAR/Optical complete time series to assure time consistency (deforestation and degradation ). Current challenges & obstacles. – Operational pre-processing SAR algorithms. – Cloud computing. – Degradation analysis. Space Data Needs. Based on actual available sensors. SDCG-4, Caltech, CA, USA 4 th -6 th September 2013

Forest Monitoring System. Space Data Needs Forest Monitoring System. SDCG-7 Sydney, Australia March 4 th – 6 th 2015 Annual Semestral Deforestation / Forest Cover monitoring - Forest Cover quantification - Forest loss quantification Carbon monitoring - Carbon Stocks - Emissions GEI Deforestation Early warning Active areas Identification Approach 3*. Tier 2*. 6  Semi-annual early warning System. Wall-to-Wall Coarse resolution.  Optical. Coarse resolutions, MODIS/VIRS sensors.  SAR. Best L band sensors or C/X band. Wide Beam modes.  Annual wall-to-wall. Medium resolutions datasets.  Landsat 8. Dedicated connection for the whole catalog. Surface reflectance level, also historical catalogue.  SAR. Best L band sensors or C/X band. Fine Beam modes.  At least for the Pacific region whole coverage. Joint work with Sentinel 1A data.

SDCG-7 Sydney, Australia March 4 th – 6 th 2015 Annual Semestral Deforestation / Forest Cover monitoring - Forest Cover quantification - Forest loss quantification Carbon monitoring - Carbon Stocks - Emissions GEI Deforestation Early warning Active areas Identification Approach 3*. Tier 2*. 7  Annual wall-to-wall. Medium resolutions datasets.  Other medium resolutions catalogues (SPOT 5, LISS III/IV, next CBERS.  Validation based on stratified sample of High resolution images (i.e. spot 5/6, RapidEye, QB, Ikonos, Formosat). Forest Monitoring System. Space Data Needs Forest Monitoring System.

8 ClassSample Sample adjusted Forest Deforestation 6200 Non Forest Without information TOTAL Space Data needs Accuracy assessment

9  DEM. National cover at the major resolution for pre-processing steps of Optical/SAR catalogues (SRTM, TanDEM-X).  Plans:  SAR Interferometric catalogues for precision change cover analysis. Actually this information is not available for the country.  SAR/Optical complete time series to assure time consistency (deforestation and degradation ). Forest Monitoring System. Space Data Needs Forest Monitoring System.

Current challenges & obstacles. – Availability of RS to implement operational phase of MGD – Availability of Operational pre-processing SAR algorithms. – Availability of funding to do a “joint work” with SDCG-MGD – Data infrastructure / Cloud computing (Datacube? FAO-SDMS?, SDMS?).

SDCG-7 Sydney, Australia March 4 th – 6 th 2015 More Information !Thank you! !Muchas gracias !