1. Data Component Scoping Meeting
Vu Anh Tuan, Vietnam
Data Component Scoping Meeting
GFOI Plenary, Bogotá, Thursday 15th March 2018
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2. Vietnam REDD+ in Vietnam: NFMS: for government MRV
UN-REDD Vietnam Programme, phase 2: a project run by MARD
Seems No NFMS and MRV procedures for REDD+ in Vietnam
NFMS: for government
Each 5 years (one cycle), done by FIPI (Forest Inventory and Planning Institute)
MRV
Forest monitoring has been doing by Forest Ranger, but base on the statistical data rather than map
Key capacity building partner: FIPI, and may be forest ranger
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3. Data & Tools
Describe the data and tools currently in use in your NFMS and MRV procedures, and the outputs they produce
Have used remote sensing data for forest mapping for more than 20 years
Data used: Landsat, SPOT (for last 15 years), VNREDSat1 (Vietnam’s optical satellite)
Product: Forest map
Method of information extraction
Products: forest map, forest volume
Forest Inventory for forest volume (cubic meter per hectare), not the Biomass estimates
No specific tools for accessing and processing data
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visual interpretation
Digital classification
Object-based classification
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4. Vietnam-specific flowchart
Acquisition
By RSD, MONRE
Pre-Processing
Delivery and Analysis
By FIPI, MARD
Forest map
Present forest map
Land use map
Present Land use map, not the land use change product
Ground data
By FIPI
Integration
Reporting and Verification
By FIPI ?
Please nominate the various tools, datasets, methods or other processes that you use during the different phases of your MRV system. Pleased add country name in white text.
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5. Flowchart summary http://datacube.vn @GFOI_FOREST GFOI.ORG GFOI1
Tools necessary: Open Data Cube: now Vietnam release Vietnam Data Cube (6th March). Other?
VDC is now operated by VNSC (Vietnam National Space Center) with collaboration with FIPI (MOU signed)
VDC team: 5 staff of VNSC, but not full time work for VDC
VDC is supported by: CEOS; CSIRO (software and technical expert); JAXA (data and technical expert); CNES (expert and algorithm); IMSG (Hardware); UMD (algorithm)
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6. Flowchart summary Hardware of VDC: Applications of VDC
1 head node, 1 login node, 7 compute nodes (each: 16 core 2.2GHz, 64GB RAM), 40Gb/s Infiniband Interconnect network
Full redundant parallel storage – LustreFS: 195TB, max read/write speed: 1.9GB/s
Total storage capacity (including work, home, local): ~ 220TB
Can be expanded to hundreds of compute nodes, hundreds of TBs of storage
Applications of VDC
Forest monitoring: in collaboration with FIPI, CNES, CSIRO
Rice monitoring: in collaboration with University of Maryland; CESBIO/CNES
Water management: in collaboration with CSIRO
VDC for forest monitoring:
Forest change (forest loss and deforestation) yearly based on sentinel (1 and 2) data
Forest change analysis: for 30 years based on Landsat data
Future: forest monitoring application of VDC can be used for biomass estimation based on ALOS-2 data and LOTUSat data
Capacity building of VDC: need for FIPI
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7. What comes next . @GFOI_FOREST GFOI.ORG GFOI1 The gaps:
VDC staff has limited understanding/knowledge about REDD+, procedure, standard, workflow..
Make VDC to be (or part of) NFMS; also MRV (for monitoring and estimation);
Verification and improvement the algorithm of forest monitoring;
Connect the RS data with ground data
Planned activities or training courses:
FIPI will provide ground data to VNSC for verification forest monitoring system of VDC (detail will be discussed at meeting 10th Apr.)
VNSC will give training course for FIPI staff: use VDC for forest monitoring before end of 2018
So far, there is no specific plan to use REDDcompass to identify and communicate these needs to international partners for support in addressing these needs. However, VDC need to be trained necessary knowledge about REDD+ and also need the experience exchange with other relevant Open Data Cube such as Colombia and Taiwan .
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