Collect Earth
Multi-purpose land monitoring
Alfonso Sanchez-Paus
Lead developer

What is Collect Earth?
A demo is worth a thousand words
•Free and Open Source tool ( downloadable from www.openfori.org )
•Very High Resolution multi-temporal images from Google Earth and Bing Maps
•Landsat 7 and 8 datasets from Google Earth Engine
•Data Analysis through Saiku

History
•Open Foris Initiative
–Collect, Collect Mobile and Collect Earth
–Calc
–Geospatial Toolkit
•BMU-ICI Project ( Capacity Building for REDD+ NFMS )
–18 Countries + more UN-REDD countries such as PNG and Mongolia

Use Cases
•Support multi-phase National Forest Inventories
•LULUCF assessments
•Monitoring agricultural land and urban areas
•Validation of existing maps
•Collection of spatially explicit socio-economic data
•Quantifying deforestation, reforestation and desertification

What do you want to analyze?

QGIS sampling grid
Collect Earth Fusion Table CSV export
Data processing
HTML data entry form
Google Earth interface
Data analysis
Collect Earth
Supplementary high-res imagery
Supplementary high-res imagery
Single-user database
Multi-user database
Image analysis

Collect Earth
KMZ
HTTP Balloon – Network Link
SQLite DB
Data export
Open Foris Collect Earth

UNFCCC reporting
•Collection of activity data
–Follow IPCC guidelines:
•IPCC Vol.4 Chapter 3 (Consistent Representation of Lands) : Approach 3 Spatially-Explicit Land-Use Conversion Data
–Sampling approach (same as Annex II countries)
–Land use, land use conversion (at least from 2000) and Land Use Subdivision
–Data directly importable to GHG inventory tools (ALU Tool/IPCC software)
•Integrating other data sources (Climate zone and soil data)

Visual Interpretation applied to Agriculture
•Plantations : e.g. Palm Oil plantations and Subsistence Agriculture in PNG.
> 27000 plots assessed -> data can be included in GHG inventory
•Eurostat LUCAS
–N²O emissions for CAPRI
–Linear elements

Google Earth Engine
Support for NDVI, NDWI and EVI intra-year / inter-year analysis
Feature for crop identification

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For Office Collect desktop is a flexible tool for office or field camp based inventory data entry. Customizable validation rules minimize data entry erros and feedback reports help to identify potential problems.
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For Field Collect Mobile is an easy to use Collect client for mobile Android devices. Entering the data already in the field can significanlty improve the quality of the data and reduce time needed for data cleansing.
For Fast Delivery
Colleyc Earth is an interative image interpretation tool which users Google Earth interface. Collect Earth allows collection of land cover and land use information with the fastest possible way and with minimum GIS experience.
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Easy Import
Calc is a fully customizable tool for facilitated data analysis. You can import data directly from Collect, import external equations and build complex processing chains
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For experts and end- users Calc is designed for both, experts and end users. Whereas the experts can build the processing chains, end users can just hit play and repreat the calculation processes.
Reporting
Calc results can be presented using Saiku Analytics. This allows easy reporting and presenting the results in both, tabular and graphical form.
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