TREES AND FORESTS IN DRYLANDS: THE FIRST GLOBAL ASSESSMENT UNCCD COP 12 Advances in Tree Cover Mapping and Monitoring for Restoration October 2015, Ankara Turkey Nora Berrahmouni and Danilo Mollicone, FAO Forestry Department

FAO Monitoring and Reporting tool for FLR The Rome Promise –Monitoring and Assessment in Drylands for their Sustainable Management and Restoration Open Foris the Collect Earth framework The first Global Drylands Assessment What has been done Preliminary raw data analysis Way forward OUTLINE

MONITORING AND REPORTING TOOL FOR FOREST AND LANDSCAPE RESTORATION

SECTION I: GENERAL INFORMATION Location, extent, timeframe, stakeholders SECTION II: AREA DESCRIPTION Biophysical features including ecological features before the restoration actions; socio-Economic features; causes of degradation in the restoration area SECTION III: RESTORATION OBJECTIVES Objectives and scope of the initiative SECTION IV: SUPPORTIVE POLICY AND GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK Policy & Legislation context; stakeholders and type of involvement in the initiative SECTION V: RESTORATION STRATEGY ADOPTED, PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION Type and description of the restoration intervention: assisted natural regeneration, soil and water conservation, seeding/planting SECTION VI: MONITORING Monitoring plan, Baseline, monitoring actions and stakeholders SECTION VII: RESULTS & SUSTAINABILITY Results of restoration objectives & outcomes, Results/ impacts of field actions, capacity development, human-well being, policies, environment and sustainability SECTION VIII: FURTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION (maps, documents, photos…) MONITORING AND REPORTING TOOL FOR FOREST AND LANDSCAPE RESTORATION

THE ROME PROMISE Participants of the Drylands Monitoring Week agreed to: 1.Form an open-ended collaborative network or community of practice to advance monitoring and assessment of drylands, including understanding of their users; 2.Communicate the value and importance of drylands monitoring to relevant stakeholders, including policy makers and resource partners; 3.Develop a dynamic roadmap for collaborative action. Rome on the 23rd Day of January 2015

ROME PROMISE - ROAD MAP –To communicate to and engage with other partners (relevant organizations and stakeholders) –Develop a mechanism to compile and share tools and information on drylands monitoring which are already available –Produce a collective product on the status of drylands including forests but also agroforestry systems, rangelands, agriculture and so on –Develop a customization of the Collect Earth tool developed by FAO to be used within the context of the Great Green Wall, other national, regional and global initiatives in drylands

The assessment is carried out in the framework of the Global Forest Survey project; It is an activity carried out in collaboration with the FAO’s Action Against Desertification project partners; The assessment using the Open Foris Collect Earth tool collected data from approximately 200,000 sampling points located in drylands. THE ROME PROMISE THE FIRST GLOBAL DRYLANDS ASSESSMENT

OPEN FORIS INITIATIVE

Collect Earth is a tool that enables data collection through Google Earth. In conjunction with Google Earth, Bing Maps, Here Maps and Google Earth Engine, users can analyse high and very high resolution satellite imagery for a wide variety of purposes. COLLECT EARTH - FRAMEWORK QGIS Collect Earth CSV export Data analysis VHR imagery Single-user database Multi-user database Collect Survey Designer VHR imagery Statistical analysis

COLLECT EARTH INTERFACE

Google Earth Bing Maps Access to free, very high resolution imagery Full integration with Saiku, for mining data and generating charts and other graphics Google Earth Engine Saiku 3D GIS for point-based, LULUCF sampling Geo-link with multiple image repositories Multi-temporal analysis with 40 years of Landsat data Fast, intuitive and flexible data analysis Trend visualization with vegetation indices Google Earth Engine API TOOLS OVERVIEW

DRYLAND GLOBAL ASSESSMENT

DRYLANDS SAMPLING ASSESSMENT A multi-phase sampling design approach has been developed to select the field sampling sites As first phase a visual interpretation process has been conducted through Open Foris Collect Earth tools The number of plots for each region to assess has been calculated on the relative sampling density among each aridity zones The minimum outputs expected from the assessment is the total number of trees in dryland, total number of shrubs, total number linear vegetation, length, density and cover percentage to monitor land use, land use change, desertification and greening trend and other biophysical indicators

All the data collected will be freely available and downloadable through the GFS data portal Southern Africa by La Sapienza University of Rome West South America by Argentina IADIZA Institute East South America by Brazil INSA Institute North America by US Forest Service Central Asia by Kyrgyzstan Department of Forest and Hunting Inventory Horn of Africa by WRI South Asia by University of Leeds Sahel region by Agrhymet, Niger North Africa by Tunis University and Government Europe and Russia by University of Madrid Middle East by International Forest Fire Education Centre of Turkey Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network REGIONAL PARTNERS

WHAT HAS BEEN DONE ON DRYLANDS Dataset collected: 182,671 Full dataset : 213,902

PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS Tree Land class 2%4%6%8%10-19%20-29%30-39%40-49%50-59%60-69%70-79%80-89%90-100% Plot Count Forest ,2673,7722,5042,1051,8202,0091,6802,97414,446 Shrubland 1,2371,4711,3491,8881, Grassland 1,7091,4201,2731,6381, Settlement Cropland 1,6751,3661,2021,2002, wetland Other Distribution of tree cover according to different Land class Tree Aridity zones 2%4%6%8%10-19%20-29%30-39%40-49%50-59%60-69%70-79%80-89%90-100% Plot Count Hyperarid Arid , Semiarid 2,9002,6812,4572,8065,4262,8681,8171, ,3044,956 Dry subhumid 1,4571,3771,2681,7863,4942,2651,3621,2021,0181, ,7199,532 Distribution of tree cover according to aridity zones

Distribution of area by Land Use Category according to IPCC Land UseArea (HA) Forest564,925,438 Cropland565,870,269 Otherland1,959,466,799 Grassland1,078,812,760 Wetland73,074,481 Settlement46,391,398 No data11,129,590 total4,299,670,735

WAY FORWARD Completion of North America and Oceania Drylands assessment by December 2015 Release of the report early next year (2016) Continuing capacity development for Dryland monitoring Field data collection and field verification starting May second Global Dryland assessment

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