National REDD+ Monitoring and Reporting
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 36504
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Earth observation techniques for the monitoring of tropical forests; implications of forest cover changes on the global carbon budget
Interests: large area land and forest monitoring; monitoring and reporting for UNFCCC and Sustainable Development Goals
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Interests: large area land and forest monitoring; change detection methods; forest cover area and area change estimates; EO based methods for characterising forest types
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Requirements for REDD+ related forest monitoring are evolving and consolidating in terms of the types of information required, monitoring frequency, accuracy and transparency. While several performance-based REDD+ frameworks are moving forward, different methods, tools and frameworks for monitoring and reporting are maturing for use by national and other REDD+ stakeholders.
This Special Issue will focus on national to local case studies, covering tropical humid and dry forest domains, which focus on different monitoring targets (area change, forest degradation, carbon stocks, burned area, forest types and biodiversity), using novel methods for the analysis of satellite data, and showcasing how they evolve from research to operational use in country contexts. The use of open methods and free data (such as Copernicus data) is preferred and should be explored. In addition, general contributions that discuss reporting requirements and needs related to international, national and local implementation frameworks are welcome. Early warning forest monitoring systems, monitoring of deforestation drivers, and other concepts that feed into policymaking and the assessment of policy outcomes can also be included.
Dr. Frédéric Achard
Prof. Dr. Martin Herold
Dr. Christophe Sannier
Dr. Sarah Carter
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- UNFCCC REDD+
- Tropical forests
- National forest monitoring
- Deforestation
- Forest degradation
- Forest regrowths
- Sentinel
- Landsat
- Activity data
- Emission factors
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