Satellite based Forest Monitoring for REDD+ and other related purposes – State of Play and Future Perspectives

A side-event to the BMZ/DLR “Dialogue on Satellite data and monitoring systems for REDD+”

4^th October 2012, 14:00 – 17:30, Günnewig Hotel Bristol, Bonn, Room Churfürstensaal II

Programme

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Time	Topic	Speaker
13:00	On-site Registration, Coffee
14:00	Welcome and Introduction	Hans-Peter Lüttenberg (DLR)
14:05	Overview on satellite-based remote sensing methods to support REDD+	Christiane Schmullius (Uni Jena), Barbara Koch (Uni Freiburg)
	REDD Project Implementation Experiences in the Congo Basin and SADC	Thomas Häusler, Sharon Gomez (GAF AG)
	An overview of the ReCover project, focusing on the Democratic Republic of Congo	Fabian Enssle (Uni Freiburg)
	Forest Applications in the Team Land Surface Dynamics	Juliane Huth (DLR-EOC)
	Demonstrator for a national REDD+ MRV AD (Activity Data) Monitoring System	Steffen Gebhardt (Conabio)
15:30	Coffee break
16:00	Using single date TerraSAR-X High Resolution SAR data for tropical forest cover classification	Ralf Knuth (Uni Jena)
	Combined national forest inventories to determine and monitor carbon stocks, with focus on TerraSAR-X based change detection analyses. Examples from Colombia and Ghana	Felicitas Poncet (EADS Astrium)
	Establishment of reference emission levels (REL) and determination of carbon stocks. Examples from Indonesia	Jonas Franke (RSS GmbH)
	Preparing the EnMAP mission: expectations and first experiences with regard to forest monitoring	Godela Rossner (DLR)
17:30	Closing Remarks	Helmut Staudenrausch (DLR)
18:00	Reception hosted by DLR