Protocols for field sampling of forest carbon pools for Monitoring, Reporting and Verification Of REDD
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Fox, Julian C.; Williams, Mark L.; Milne, Tony; Keenan, Rodney J.
- Source
- 2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International. :1509-1512 Jul, 2010
- Subject
- Geoscience
Signal Processing and Analysis
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Biomass
Carbon
Monitoring
Carbon dioxide
Remote sensing
Global warming
Soil
REDD
MRV
Papua New Guinea
- Language
- ISSN
- 2153-6996
2153-7003
Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of forest carbon (C) stocks, changes in these stocks (ΔC) due to land use and land use change and net greenhouse gas emissions are critical technical challenges of climate change mitigation initiatives aiming to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD) [1,2]. MRV systems for emission reporting for voluntary carbon agreements and REDD will require the careful integration of remotely sensed (RS) data and ground measurements for the retrieval of C and ΔC with sufficient precision and accuracy to be marketable and tradable [3]. MRV systems will also need to be designed specific to scale; from project level monitoring for voluntary carbon agreements to national level REDD reporting. Field sampling will be an expensive component of MRV systems and efficiency and cost effectiveness are paramount. Here we present protocols that can guide the design of field measurement campaigns for estimating C and ΔC for MRV systems in developing tropical countries. We will use examples from Papua New Guinea (PNG).