Oxford poster
REDDiness poster presented and discussed at the Climate change, deforestation and the future of African rainforests conference in Oxford from 4th to 6th of January 2012. This conference, hosted by the Oxford Center for Tropical Forests provided a multidisciplinary examination of the fate of African tropical forests in the 21st century. Our poster was entitled “Comparison and integration of High Resolution and Very High Resolution EO (Earth Observation) data in Forest Monitoring in Central Africa” and illustrated the results of REDDiness survey in Republic of Congo and Gabon as well as methods of integrating remote sensing information about forest degradation. The EO monitoring service combines frequently high resolution long term monitoring with detailed annual monitoring at very high resolution (0,5 m).
Preserving African forest contributes to global climate change challenge. Earth Observation (EO) techniques are essential tools in forest changes monitoring for REDD. REDDiness and G-Mosaic are two GMES projects.
REDDiness is a Specific International Cooperation Action (SICA) to reinforce collaboration between Africa and Europe. Lead by Eurosense, it aims to develop and share up-to-date EO techniques for measuring, reporting and verifying (MRV) systems for REDD.
G-Mosaic (GMES services for Management of Operations, Situation Awareness and Intelligence for regional Crises) develops EO derived information services for security related activities. In this project, Eurosense demonstrates the use of EO data in monitoring the impacts of the rehabilitation of a road in Republic Democratic of Congo (RDC) in terms of changes in the forest cover. Forest changes are derived from Very High Resolution images (Ikonos/Geoye and Quickbird, less than 1 m). On the figure below, the satellite image was acquired in DRC at the time the road works had reached the river (direction road works: S->N). New bare soil areas compared to one year earlier are mapped in yellow.
REDDiness poster presented and discussed at the Climate change, deforestation and the future of African rainforests conference in Oxford from 4th to 6th of January 2012. This conference, hosted by the Oxford Center for Tropical Forests provided a multidisciplinary examination of the fate of African tropical forests in the 21st century. Our poster was entitled “Comparison and integration of High Resolution and Very High Resolution EO (Earth Observation) data in Forest Monitoring in Central Africa” and illustrated the results of REDDiness survey in Republic of Congo and Gabon as well as methods of integrating remote sensing information about forest degradation. The EO monitoring service combines frequently high resolution long term monitoring with detailed annual monitoring at very high resolution (0,5 m).
Preserving African forest contributes to global climate change challenge. Earth Observation (EO) techniques are essential tools in forest changes monitoring for REDD. REDDiness and G-Mosaic are two GMES projects.
REDDiness is a Specific International Cooperation Action (SICA) to reinforce collaboration between Africa and Europe. Lead by Eurosense, it aims to develop and share up-to-date EO techniques for measuring, reporting and verifying (MRV) systems for REDD.
G-Mosaic (GMES services for Management of Operations, Situation Awareness and Intelligence for regional Crises) develops EO derived information services for security related activities. In this project, Eurosense demonstrates the use of EO data in monitoring the impacts of the rehabilitation of a road in Republic Democratic of Congo (RDC) in terms of changes in the forest cover. Forest changes are derived from Very High Resolution images (Ikonos/Geoye and Quickbird, less than 1 m). On the figure below, the satellite image was acquired in DRC at the time the road works had reached the river (direction road works: S->N). New bare soil areas compared to one year earlier are mapped in yellow.
Support Central Africa in Earth Observation driven forest monitoring for REDD
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Attendees to the Oxford conference