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June 28, 2022

Agenda: Biomass 1st User Workshop

Biomass 1st User workshop

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This User Requirements Workshop will take place online on the afternoons of Tuesday 28 June to Thursday 30 June from 15:00-17:00 (CEST)

Agenda

Timezone: Europe/Paris

June 28, 2022
  • 3 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. Welcome and overview of workshop | Frank Martin Seifert
  • 3:10 p.m. - 3:20 p.m. Overview of satellite sensors (past, present and future) of relevance to biomass and biomass change | Richard Lucas
  • 3:20 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. CCI Biomass: Status and future developments for global mapping of aboveground biomass and change. | Oliver Cartus
  • 3:30 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. Biomass across Australia: current status and future requirements | TBC
  • 3:40 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. Aboveground biomass estimation across tropical and subtropical Africa | Pedro Rodriguez-Veiga
  • 3:50 p.m. - 4 p.m. Towards continental scale individual tree carbon crops in drylands | Martin Brandt
  • 4:10 p.m. - 4:20 p.m. Comparison and evaluation of global to regional above-ground biomass products | Heather Kay
  • 4:20 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Uncertainty associated with biomass estimation | Ron McRoberts
  • 4:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. Discussion of global biomass maps and overview of status and user requirements | Richard Lucas
June 29, 2022
  • 3 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. ESA CCI fires: importance for biomass | Clement Albergel
  • 3:10 p.m. - 3:20 p.m. Evolving needs and guidance for integrating biomass maps in national forest monitoring and GHG inventories | Martin Herold
  • 3:20 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Country case study: Biomass and national greenhouse gas accounting in Australia | Stephen Roxburgh
  • 3:30 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. Country case study: Peru | Natalia Malaga
  • 3:40 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. Country case study: Russia | Dmitry Schepaschenko
  • 3:50 p.m. - 4 p.m. Country case study: Wales and relevance to the UK | Darren Slevin
  • 4 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. Country case study: Kenya | Heiko Balzter
  • 4:10 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Country case study : Rwanda | Martin Brandt
  • 4:15 p.m. - 4:25 p.m. Country case study : France | Martin Schwartz
  • 4:25 p.m. - 4:35 p.m. Summary of experiences from the CEOS/GFOI/Silvacarbon country workshop | Daniela Requena, Joana Melo
  • 4:35 p.m. - 5 p.m. Concluding discussions | M. Herold
June 30, 2022
  • 3 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. Monitoring Changes of Global Forest Biomass Carbon: Linking Science to Policy to Market | Sassan Saatchi
  • 3:10 p.m. - 3:20 p.m. Australia’s requirements for information on biomass change | Kristen Williams, Anna Richards & Graciela Metternicht
  • 3:20 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Biomass change from L-band VOD : Evidence for large carbon sinks in northern young forest over the last decade | Hui Yang
  • 3:30 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. Changes in biomass over the last 20 years | Nancy Harris
  • 3:40 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Online interactive poll on biomass change datasets requirements
  • 3:45 p.m. - 3:55 p.m. Change impacts and pressures - evidence needs | Richard Lucas
  • 3:55 p.m. - 4:05 p.m. BIOMASCAT 30 years of radar reconstruction of biomass change | Nuno Carvaillhais
  • 4:05 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Status and challenges for forest biomass change monitoring from Earth observation | Heiko Baltzer
  • 4:15 p.m. - 4:25 p.m. Biomass change : secondary forest sinks from satellite data | Yidi Xu
  • 4:25 p.m. - 4:35 p.m. Evaluation of biomass change using ground data | Arnan Araza
  • 4:35 p.m. - 5 p.m. Concluding discussions | Lead: Philippe Ciais