GFOI FOR GEOSS-AP COUNTRIES

Masanobu Shimada
CEOS LEAD FOR GFOIJanuary 2017, GEOSS-AP
GFOI.ORGFACEBOOK.COM/GFOI1@GFOI_FOREST

What is GFOI?
“Through collaborative action, GFOI seeks tofoster forest monitoring & assessment that isrobust, reliable, and achievable at reasonable
cost and supports planning for national
development priorities including, climatechange mitigation and adaptation.”

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GFOI: what is it?

GFOI Open Forum @ ESA in Frascati Italy, Feb 2016
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GFOI: why is it needed?

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GFOI Partners
 Founded under Group on Earth Observations (GEO)in 2011• First work plan was 2012-13.
• Operational ever since.
 Lead partners: currently Australia, Norway, USA,FAO & CEOS.
 Experts from UNFCCC, IPCC, World Bank FCPF,universities, technical and policy experts and other Open to new partners.
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GFOI Components

6Capacity Building Interface of GFOI with implementing countries
 Jointly implemented by US SilvaCarbon & UNREDD
 Builds upon their existing work programmes andcountry partnerships
 Intended to use MGD as core syllabus
 Workshops, one-on-one training, in-country experts,training trainers, webinars and open sources tools
 Component Managers: Sylvia Wilson and Inge
Jonckheere.

Capacity Building Colombia CB workshop led by SilvaCarbon

Methods & Guidance Documentation
 Intended to form the backbone of GFOI
 Logical and systematic guide for countries to follow indeveloping their forest monitoring systems
 Improve accessibility of technical data: link to IPCC GPG,
UNFCCC requirements and other technical docs
 V1 published in January 2014, V2 in August 2016
 New web application REDDcompass available www.gfoi.org/reddcompass
 Component Manager: Carly Green.

9Methods & Guidance Documentation

 REDDCompass aims to make GFOI MGD accessible andusable by all countries at all capacities
10Space Data Coordination
 Coordinates civil space agencies to influence satelliteacquisition in support of forest monitoring needs
 Aims to ensure coverage and continuity for countries
 Focus on acquisition and accessibility of free data
 Also supports R&D component, inc. strategising forAnalysis Ready Data.
 Led by Committee on Earth Observation Satellites(CEOS) – Space Data Coordination Group Component Manager: Stephen Ward11

Space Data Coordination

 Space Data Portal helps understanding and access tospace data for countries http://www.gfoi.org/space-data/space-data-portal/
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Space Data Coordination

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R&D Coordination
 Coordinate global R&D activities on forest monitoring
to help meet country needs
 Prioritizing RS research topics for the use in NFMS
 Priorities topics include: forest degradation, mapping
forest types, interoperability, uncertainty, data andmodel integration etc.
 Country focus through development of MGD modules
 Component Managers: Brice Mora and Martin Herold.

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GFOI Leads Group
Representation from all major contributing organisations.
Overall responsibility for GFOI.
 Australia: Anthony Bennie
 CEOS: Shimada Masanobu (Stephen Ward) FAO: Anssi Pekkarinen
 Norway: Henrik Fliflet USA: Evan Notman & Sylvia Wilson**Open to new members with additional contributions**

GEOSS-AP region activities
 GFOI Plenary in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam in week of 10thApril, 2017 – all countries with forest monitoring
interests invited to actively participate
 Exploring with Vietnam the potential of the CEOS Data
Cube for GFOI purposes Substantial SE Asia workshop activity by SilvaCarbon
and FAO to promote the GFOI MGD andREDDCompass
 Space Data support always available from SDCG
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2017 Workshops

Mekong region countries have not been able to continuously map andmonitor land cover changes due to methodological difference andinconsistencies (with IPCC) of past mapping efforts.

SilvaCarbon will facilitate U Maryland support for partners onenhancing land cover and forest monitoring.

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Development of forest extent and change maps from 2000 to presentand training on product derivation and iteration.

Continue the process in 2018 to include monitoring change across the6 IPCC classes.

Timeline: January 2017 – December 2017 (Proposed countries: Lao
PDR, and Cambodia or Thailand)

Implementing Partner: UMD and EROS USGS will provide directtechnical assistance to the three countries.
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2017 Workshops Cont’dOne regional GFOI workshop to address common technical issues
identified during the country work on annual forest cover change maps.
September 2017 – (Laos, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Nepal, andThailand)National training in MRV design and implementation. Training toreporting officials in the use of the REDD+Compass. February 2017

National training: Using the ALU tool for compiling and analyzing
data from the land use sector. April – October 2017Study tour to Indonesia: Sharing lessons from the One Map
development process SERVIR-Mekong and One Map Myanmar teamare planning a study tour to Indonesia to learn from the One Map
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More information
 gfoi.org
 facebook.com/gfoi1
 twitter.com/gfoi_forest office@gfoi.org

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