Forest Carbon Measurement and Monitoring Research, Tools and Methods Workshop

April 19 -22, 2022 –Oregon State University (OSU)

The SilvaCarbon Program supported a series of Universities to implement, together with selected Silvacarbon countries, emerging tools and methods for measuring and monitoring forest carbon. These techniques and methods cover an array of critical issues in forest carbon monitoring, including detecting forest degradation – a key challenge for many countries – using remote sensing applications, ground monitoring applications, and a combination of data sources. This meeting aims to update SilvaCarbon's Latin American countries on the current research development, including challenges and diversions during the pandemic. The meeting intends to foster learning and collaboration through presentations and focused discussions. This meeting aims to identify priorities for potential future research and develop an action plan to improve the current methods and techniques deployed during the pandemic.

During the first day and a half, selected countries will present the status of their National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS), including technical capacity gaps. During the second day, academics supported throughout SilvaCarbon will present their work status with governments and the desired outcomes. Finally, on the last day of the meeting, we will explore existing capacity-building material from Google, SilvaCarbon, and World Bank and their potential to improve NFMS in Latin-America countries.

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María Fernanda Báez Muñoz

Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica

Quito - Ecuador.

Fernanda Báez es Ingeniera Geógrafa y del Medio Ambiente de la Escuela Politécnica del Ejército en Quito, Ecuador. Realizó una Maestría en Sistemas de Información Geográfica -modalidad a distancia en la Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Se desempeñó como Especialista Geomática en el Instituto Espacial Ecuatoriano (ex - Centro de Levantamientos Integrados de Recursos Naturales por Sensores Remotos - CLIRSEN) durante dos años realizando actividades relacionadas a Gestión de Metadatos, Servicios Web de Mapas, Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales, Manejo de Geodatabases, entre otras. Tiene experiencia de 10 años en la gestión, edición y manejo de bases de datos geográficas de información administrada por instituciones públicas en Ecuador. También ha trabajado como consultora realizando trabajos relacionados a Planes de Desarrollo y Ordenamiento Territorial. Ha realizado cursos en Gestión de Metadatos, herramientas Open Source y un curso en línea de Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales realizado en el Instituto Geográfico Nacional de España. Desde el año 2016, trabaja en el Ministerio de Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica en el área de la Gestión y Manejo de los Bosques y Vegetación Protectores y el área de Tenencia de la Tierra.

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Fernanda Báez is a Geographical and Environmental Engineer from the Polytechnic School of the Army in Quito, Ecuador. He completed a Master's Degree in Geographic Information Systems - distance modality at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. He worked as a Geomatics Specialist at the Ecuadorian Space Institute (former - Center for Integrated Surveys of Natural Resources by Remote Sensing - CLIRSEN) for two years performing activities related to Metadata Management, Map Web Services, Spatial Data Infrastructure, Geodatabase Management , among other. He has 10 years of experience in the management, editing and management of geographic databases of information managed by public institutions in Ecuador. She has also worked as a consultant doing work related to Development Plans and Territorial Planning. He has taken courses in Metadata Management, Open Source tools and an online Spatial Data Infrastructure course at the National Geographic Institute of Spain. Since 2016, he has worked in the Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition in the area of Management and Management of Protective Forests and Vegetation and the area of Land Tenure.

Eduardo Rojas

Ministry of Environment Consultant

Perú

I am currently a PhD student at the University of Barcelona, I am developing various environmental modelling and remote sensing tools with free software related to the risk of deforestation. In addition, I am the author and co-author of different scientific articles and national documents of Peru related to the Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of activity data for GHG emissions. I am currently a consultant to the Ministry of the Environment (MINAM) and was a consultant for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the National Environment Fund (FONAM), the National Service of State Protected Natural Areas (SERNANP) and The Nature Conservancy Peru (TNC).

Claudia Maria Samayoa Munoz

Advisor to the Climate Change Mitigation Department, in the Climate Change Directorate of the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources of Guatemala.

Support for monitoring the regulations corresponding to the Mitigation Chapter of the Framework Law to regulate the reduction of Vulnerability, the mandatory Adaptation to the effects of Climate Change and the Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases (Decree 7-2013); In addition to monitoring the methodologies used to prepare and participate in the process of formulating, calculating and reviewing Climate Change Reports before the UNFCCC, GHG Inventories within the National Inventory System of Guatemala, in the different Mitigation sectors, and preparation, review of proposals for actions that contribute to the reduction of GHG emissions in compliance with the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC for its acronym in English).

Marco Antonio Iñiguez

Software engineer

CONAFOR - México

Marco Iñiguez is software engineer, specialist in GHG and forest monitoring at the technical unit for MRV in National Forest Commission in Mexico, he is responsible to generate land cover map and land cover change maps for the satellite forest monitoring system, he is also supporting the MRV component for the international and national reporting needs. Marco has Bachelor of Computer Science, also have specialized training in remote sensing. Currently is focus on development of a pilot of Early Warning System for disturbance detection in forest. His current areas of work are (i) Land cover and land cover change maps (ii) algorithms/methods for real time disturbance detection (iii) inputs for MRV system, he also has been working for international initiatives to develop GHG estimation tools.

Kenset Rosales

Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources of Guatemala.

MARN Guatemala

Kenset Amaury Rosales Riveiro, es ingeniero agrónomo de profesión y actualmente labora para el Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de Guatemala. En los últimos cinco años ha participado como enlace técnico en proyectos de la cooperación internacional vinculados a temas de adaptación y mitigación al cambio climático para el reporte de información sobre cambio climático (Comunicaciones Nacionales, Inventarios de Gases de Efecto Invernadero, Niveles de Referencia de Emisiones Forestales en la Estrategia Nacional REDD+, entre otros).

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Kenset Amaury Rosales Riveiro, is an agricultural engineer by profession and currently works for the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Guatemala. In the last five years, he has participated as a technical liaison in international cooperation projects related to climate change adaptation and mitigation issues for the reporting of information on climate change (National Communications, Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Emissions Reference Levels Foresters in the National REDD+ Strategy, among others).

Edderson Cabrera Montenegro

Forest Engineer

MINAMBIENTE - Colombia

He has dedicated more than 16 years of his professional life to environmental monitoring in Colombia, especially through the use of satellite images for the monitoring of forest ecosystems, as well as in the analysis of the dynamics of land use change. Edersson Cabrera is a Forest Engineer, with postgraduate in areas of spatial analysis and remote sensing. He has a vast experience and knowledge in interpretation and analysis of satellite images for the monitoring of the natural forest, he has led the development and implementation of methodologies,

protocols and official technical procedures of the country, in this area linked to the IDEAM team and The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. Since 2012 he has been working as the Coordinator of the Forest and Carbon Monitoring System for Colombia. Edersson is also part of the technical team that generated the first Forest Emissions Reference Level for the Colombian Amazon, the first REDD + , and the First Biennial Report on Emissions Update (BUR) submitted by Colombia to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); and has been part of the Colombian technical delegation to the Conferences of the Parties – COP, within the framework of the UNFCCC. He currently leads the Pillar Enabling Conditions for the Visión Amazonia program.

Patricia Insfrán, Chena

Ingeniera ambiental

INFONA - Paraguay

Patricia es especialista en sensores remotos y sistemas de información geográfica. Actualmente trabaja como especialista del Sistema Nacional de Monitoreo Forestal en actividades relacionadas a REDD+ con la Dirección del Sistema Nacional de Información Forestal (DSNIF) del Instituto Forestal Nacional de Paraguay, principalmente en el proceso de generación de datos de actividad referente a la cobertura forestal y cambios de uso de la tierra empleados en los reportes nacionales en el marco de la UNFCCC.