Beyond Forests: How New Innovations in Geospatial Monitoring Will Help Protect All Ecosystems
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Protecting forests is critical, but meeting biodiversity, climate and sustainable development targets means preventing the loss of other valuable natural ecosystems as well.
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Beyond Forests: How New Innovations in Geospatial Monitoring Will Help Protect All Ecosystems
- 1. Beyond Forests: How New Innovations in Geospatial Monitoring Will Help Protect All Ecosystems.
- 2. This session will be live interpreted into French, Spanish and Portuguese. Welcome! Please add your questions to the Q&A box. Join our expert office hours on 23 April.
- 3. 3 3 We develop breakthroughs in geospatial monitoring of the world’s land and nature- based carbon. Our monitoring offer help address some of the world's most pressing challenges: • Protecting the world’s natural ecosystems • Improving agriculture and food system sustainability • Restoring degraded landscapes • Reducing land sector greenhouse gas emissions. They will provide unprecedented transparency about what is happening to the world’s land anywhere on the planet, at any time.
- 4. Just some of our partners...
- 5. Over 1,700 people from 120 countries
- 6. To protect the world's natural ecosystems, we must be able to monitor them.
- 7. Speakers David Bekaert OPERA Project Manager Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Matthew Hansen Professor University of Maryland Global Land & Discovery Laboratory Sarah Carter Research Associate Land & Carbon Lab Leticia Kawanami Sustainability Director at Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain Cargill Leah Samberg Lead Scientist Accountability Framework initiative and Rainforest Alliance Craig Beatty Lead Scientist Accountability Framework initiative and Rainforest Alliance
- 8. Monitoring Vegetation Disturbances in Near-Real-Time: Evolving Policy and User Needs Sarah Carter
- 9. • Central to addressing climate change • Essential to conserve global biodiversity • Critical to people’s livelihoods and well-being • A contribution to evolving policy needs, and voluntary reporting on sustainability Monitoring changes in the world's vegetation
- 10. Growing number of pledges & actions – all require traceability and transparency to implement and report on. It’s not a new phenomenon! Increasing attention on sustainable supply chains
- 11. Emerging norms for legality, sustainability and traceability. A growing number of countries have policies in place to support green soft commodity value chains.
- 12. Currently near-real-time alerts are only available for tropical primary forests
- 13. https://glad.earthengine.app/view/glcluc-2000-2020 Many non-forested vegetated lands remain unmonitored until now
- 14. https://glad.earthengine.app/view/dist-alert Many disturbance alerts – prioritization is needed
- 15. Curtis et al 2018 and Forest Loss | Global Forest Review (wri.org) Drivers of tree cover loss by region 2001-2022
- 16. Image WRI: Natural Lands Map Provides Baseline for Companies’ No Conversion Targets — Land & Carbon Lab (landcarbonlab.org) Natural Lands Map
- 17. Image WRI: Natural Lands Map Provides Baseline for Companies’ No Conversion Targets — Land & Carbon Lab (landcarbonlab.org) Global Grassland & Pasture Monitoring: first results note: not all grasslands visible due to zoom
- 18. Customizable Data Analysis Tools Data Dashboards Alert Subscriptions
- 19. Near-real-time alerts in all vegetation types ‘Conversion alerts’ showing potential conversion of natural vegetation to commodities Functionality to allow users to identify alert hotspots in concerning areas e.g protected areas and primary forests New products for 2025
- 20. Thank you
Editor's Notes
- I’m going to present how this new data can be useful for stakeholders, and explain how LCL will derive information from the new alert data and provide this information along with tools to make it more actionable for a wide range of users.
- Ultimately alerts can be very useful - knowing about changes to vegetation in all lands allows us to better address some of these issues which are critical in today’s world from threats to biodiversity and livelihoods, and the need to support ambitious new sustainability policies.
- One of the main drivers, is in pledges related to traceability and transparency which are a requirement in many land covers, whether voluntary, or mandatory,, and in the last 10 years have become more and more numerous – all of these can be supported by new policies.
- A growing number of countries have policies in place to support these green soft commodity value changes – notable forthcoming policies include EUDR, but there are others which are in preparation or are already in place.
- Currently, near-real-time alert information in the tropics is already available on GFW and GFW Pro, which is a platform for operators to use when demonstrating compliance to various commitments, and is already used by many commodity producers and financial institutions. But the data only cover the tropics, or the pink region here, and only primary forests within this region
- These primary forests are shown in green in this map, and this leaves many vegetated areas unmonitored, such as the green grasslands and orange croplands in this map. Global land cover and land use change 2000-2020 P.V. Potapov, M.C. Hansen, A.H. Pickens, A. Hernandez-Serna, A. Tyukavina, S. Turubanova, V. Zalles, X. Li, A. Khan, F. Stolle, N. Harris, X.-P. Song, A. Baggett, I. Kommareddy, A. Komareddy (2022). https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2022.856903
- Since many more areas are now monitored by the alerts, there is an abundance of alerts, and order to make this useful to users, we can filter them to highlight those which are more interesting to users.
- Where users are interested in drivers, we can provide information for example here, is a map showing the drivers of forest loss by region, allowing us to identify where agriculture is expanding into, in this case forests. This information is extremely helpful for developing interventions to address these driers, and for sustainable supply chain assessments.
- Information on what type vegetation was disturbed is also useful, so that we can highlight where natural vegetation has been disturbed, and where action to protect these areas might be taken.
- In addition to the data itself, on GFW for the current alert data, we provide tools, data summaries and the potential to subscribe to receive updates when there are alerts within the user’s area of interest. All these possibilities allow users to extract what they need from the data
- This year, we will be working to develop new products as part of LCL including near-real-time alerts in all vegetation types…