Showcase Authors

Author(s): Ryosuke Shibasaki

E-mail: shiba@csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliations: Center for Spatial Information Science, Univ. of Tokyo

Member Country/Participating Organization: Japan

Showcase Description

Showcase Title: Forest Carbon Monitoring System

Showcase Description: This showcase demonstrates that coordinated Earth Observations can provide the basis for reliable information services of suitable consistency, accuracy and continuity to support Forest Carbon Tracking. This task builds upon existing and planned GEO efforts in forest monitoring, associated modeling and use of these tools for timely provision of observations required for their routine use world-wide.

Team: Australia (CSIRO,Dept. of Climate Change), CEOS (Thailand), FAO, GTOS (GOFC-GOLD),Japan (JAXA), Norway (NSC), UK (Univ. of Leicester),USA (USDA/Forest Service)

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Showcase Justification

Add value of GEO in general: It successfully demonstrate how GEOSS can contribute to carbon emission from forest by coordinating efforts of each country and organization.

Add value of ADC: Data integration through improved data interoperability is a key to the implementation of forest carbon monitoring system.

Summit Themes and Focus: Reduction of carbon emission from forest especially in developing countries as the result of collective efforts.

Cape Town Declaration: Relevant to the mitigation of global changes

Global goals and assessments: Monitoring and assessing forest carbon stocks and fluxes provides a basis for exploring way towards the Millennium Development Goals.

Filling gaps, ...: This showcase fills the gaps of forest monitoring efforts by each country and organization and provides more consistent and accurate forest data (stock and flux)with much better coverage.

Strong future GEOSS: The showcase demonstrates how satellite observation complemented with field survey can mitigate climate changes, that is one of SBA.

Link to high-profile issues: Reduction of carbon emission from forest is one of key problems in combating against global change.

Cross-cutting nature: More reliable forest information can contribute not only to carbon emission reduction, but to conservation of ecosystem and biodiversity.

Capacity building: In the process of developing forest database, experts in developing countries have experience of integrating satellite data and in-situ observation data, that will help them make better informed decision making in forest management.