GC061
New frontiers in land cover change mapping and its implications for Forest Carbon Financing

Session ID#: 82158

Session Description:
New technologies and methods to improve estimates and enhance tracking of forest change provide new opportunities to countries expected to report on progress to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, develop baselines and demonstrate results for forest carbon financing mechanisms. This session will highlight examples of forest change mapping at the country level, including methods to estimate and reduce the error associated with this mapping.  Results will be discussed in the context of requirements of current programs such as the Forest Carbon Fund and BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes. This session will explore key issues an potential solutions with existing reporting systems such as (1) improving methods for determining the relative importance of different drivers of deforestation (2) improving estimates of degradation and restoration (3) improved  integration of forest change data with other land use change.
Index Terms:

1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1906 Computational models, algorithms [INFORMATICS]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Primary Convener:  Sylvia Wilson, United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States
Conveners:  Eric Bullock, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States, Juliann Aukema, US Agency for International Development, Office of Global Climate Change, Washington, D.C, United States and Africa Ixmucane Flores Cordova, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Africa Ixmucane Flores Cordova, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
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