11-14 November 2024

Manila - Philippines

Background

The Philippines Forest Management Bureau (FMB) relies on satellite data to generate national maps of land use change that serve as a critical input to carbon reporting under the U.N. REDD+ Initiative, while the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) produces detailed national land cover maps on a regular cycle. This workshop, which is part of a series of technical workshops on various aspects of forest carbon monitoring and reporting, provides in-depth training on FAO's SEPAL (System for Earth Observation Data Access, Processing and Analysis for Land Monitoring) cloud computing platform, one of the two main open-source options for accessing and processing satellite data efficiently. The primary objective of this workshop is to assist FMB in developing the technical capacity to generate REDD+ Activity Data in-house, as well as to help NAMRIA learn how to use SEPAL to create land cover maps from satellite imagery. 

In terms of topics, this workshop provides a general introduction to SEPAL, including how to link it to Google Earth Engine and imagery from Planet/NICFI. It also covers a range of fundamental to advanced workflows including procedures to access satellite data and GEE assets, exporting analysis results to Earth Engine or personal computers, creating cloud-free optical mosaics and radar composites, image classification (for general IPCC classes and forest subclasses), and creating CCDC (Continuous Change Detection and Classification) assets and slices. By analyzing the difference between CCDC slices from two or more time periods, Activity Data such as deforestation or forest gain can be generated and used for emissions estimation and carbon reporting.     

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