2. Build and Delivery: Requirements
Build and Deliver an End-to-end Prototype
Provides an Integrated Carbon Information System
Creates technical measurement and monitoring capabilities to assess
carbon benefits of GEF and other program (future) carbon impact
and benefits
Enables technical measurement and monitoring capabilities to
promote Best Practices and positive socio-economic outcomes
Supports technical measurement and monitoring capabilities to
enable policy and institutional context analysis
3. Build and Delivery: Requirements
System will have certain functional attributes:
Measure actual carbon stocks, calculate sequestered carbon
at any given moment during project implementation.
Forecast feasible carbon targets for GEF projects.
Recommend policy/institutional changes to maximize carbon
benefits or minimize trade-offs.
Support capacity development components of GEF and non-
GEF projects for subsequent country and community use.
4. Build and Delivery: Outputs
Provides project design options to optimize carbon
stock increases with livelihood benefits
Provides capabilities to asses carbon characteristics
and carbon benefits of GEF projects
Provides access to agroforestry information for
creating integrated sustainable agriculture systems
Optimizes multiple benefits within a smallholder
carbon project
5. Build and Delivery: Design
Constructed on a previous approach called the
Carbon PMMP:
Protocols (P) that provide both tools and guidance for
measurement and monitoring of carbon in agricultural, agro-
forestry, and forest landscapes
Measurement (M) that provide both above and below
ground measurements of carbon on the landscape, considers
all IPCC pools and is robust and statistically accurate suitable
for project and program evaluation of carbon benefits
Monitoring (M) that allows for continuous measurements
over time for on going evaluation of progress in program
carbon benefits
Participatory (P) involvement of user communities with
the GEF, UNEP and rural communities and their land
managers.
6. Build and Delivery: Components
Integration of a suite of measurement and
monitoring methods and technologies:
1. Ground based sample frame collection of in-situ
measurements of above ground, belowground and soil carbon
and nitrogen
2. Laboratory analysis of in situ samples
3. Ground-calibrated remote sensing observations of land use
and cover, vegetation attributes and structure
4. Statistical analytical and spatial analysis of stratified samples
and continuous fields
5. Numerical models
6. Local and program wide social/economic impact tools and
best practice tools
7. Build and Deliver
Aim: to apply emerging technologies to measure and
monitor land use changes to provide accurate
environmental and carbon risk information.
Technology Convergence APPLIED TO: Global Environmental
Services
(Earth observation (EO)
systems, Global Positioning (Climate change, carbon
Systems, web-enabled benefits, natural resource
Geographic Information management, biodiversity)
Systems, location-based
services, large mass data
storage)
17. Key Elements of Measurement
Ground measurements provide calibration and detailed
sample frame analysis
Remote sensing takes the ground samples to extrapolate
spatially to the landscape
Remote sensing characterizes spatial heterogeneity and land
use
Spectral analysis provides rapid soil carbon measurement
GIS provides the data base framework for organizing spatial
data
Carbon and nitrogen models provide ex ante calculations
and detailed accounting
Web-enabled geospatial information systems to provide
local and global access
18. The Technology Suite
Integrates all of these essential
components through key
components
•Ground measurement and calibration
•Site characterization and planning
•Carbon and Nitrogen accounting & modeling
•Access to web based spatial information
19. Carbon planner example
The Carbon Planner identifies high potential and high risk land use
areas for land use carbon project. This tool is aimed at project
developers
Geospatially related Geospatial Mapping Carbon Planner – Carbon Risk / Opportunity Map
databases
Biomass &
Soil Carbon
Carbon Risk &
Opportunity
Analysis
Rainfall &
Drought Risk
Fire / Disease
Risk
Criteria for Cadastral /
Project eligibility Ownership Data
20. Ground calibration is essential
Our methods and
technologies provide the
basis for accounting and
reporting carbon for projects
at the local scale.
24. Remote sensing monitors for permanence and
tracking carbon in biomass
Plantation plot
New trees
Mature tress
Natural forest
25. 5. Carbon and
Nitrogen Portal
C/N Portal
centralizes project
information
and allows
users to access and
manage their carbon
accounts from
anywhere.
36. Leaf Area Index can be used as an
Input to NPP-Carbon models
L AI v s . F C (in G L A2 .0 )
4
3 .5
3
2 .5
LAI
2
LA I-4 vs . F C (% )
1 .5
LA I-5 vs . F C
1
0 .5
0
0 20 40 60 80 100
F ra c tio n a l C o v e r
58. Region east of Kingaroy, north of
Nanango. Small blue dots are
waypopints. White is non forest/trees.
Carbon sequestration range: 4-8 tCO2e
per ha per yr (light to dark)
