GISTDA - SilvaCarbon CEOS Workshop on
Uptaking Global AFOLU Datasets
22 February to 02 March, 2023
Chanthaburi Province and Khao Yai National Park - Thailand
Background and Objectives
Under the banner of its CEOS Chair year in 2023, GISTDA is holding a workshop in collaboration with SilvaCarbon with the objectives of:
i. Better connecting South-East Asian national forest inventory agencies with CEOS space agencies and their datasets and seeking to improve the uptake of EO datasets in national inventory and reporting processes – e.g., Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for the Global Stocktake (GST) of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+).
ii. Exploring opportunities for country-level calibration and validation of global CEOS land cover products (e.g., a harmonised aboveground biomass product, Global Mangrove Watch global dataset, others as listed on ceos.org/gst), building on the experience of SilvaCarbon's pilot work being undertaken as part of the CEOS Strategy to Support the Global Stocktake of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement.
iii. Ensuring countries’ data and requirements are included in the calibration process, which is key to the uptake of global products.
iv. Carrying out assessments of global products against local-scale data.
v. Exploring the specifics of the application of space-based Earth observation data to mangrove forest, and lower montane rain forest carbon storage inventories.
vi. Undertaking capacity building related to inventory techniques specifically for mangrove forests.
vii. Exploring opportunities to improve emission factors using space-based LiDAR data.
This workshop supports the headline priority of CEOS support to the Global Stocktake of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement and complements the ongoing work of CEOS Agencies, including JAXA’s support of theGlobal Mangrove Watch (GMW)dataset. The workshop also responds to feedback from regional national forest inventory and researchcommunities regarding the need for training specifically on inventory techniques formangrove forest.
