MRV & Reporting Status & Related Space Data Needs

1. COLOMBIA Edersson Cabrera M. Gustavo Galindo G. MRV & Reporting Status& Related Space Data Needs

2. The Hydrological, Meteorological and Environmental Studies Institute. IDEAM • Public institution within the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable development. • Colombian National authority for meteorological and hydrological issues. • Provides technical and scientific support to national agencies and economic sectors. • Coordinates and manages the environmental Information System of Colombia – SIAC. • Earth Observation Technical coordinator in the Colombian Space Commission. • Official source of forest information (forest cover and deforestation). Implement the FOREST AND CARBON Monitoring SYSTEM FOR COLOMBIA,

3. Introduction National policy context. Climate Change Policy Brief description • ENREDD+ will establish a robust national MRV system for carbon accounting, including the monitoring of possible leaks. Colombian Climate Change Policy Low Carbon Development Strategy Climate Change Adaptation National Plan National REDD+ Strategy Adaptation based on Ecosystems • Will define which institutions are responsible for the implementation and management of the country MRV system at the National, Subnational and local levels. Sectorial Mitigation actions Sectorial / Territorials Adaptation actions Financial strategy for Disasters protection CONPES 3700, 2011. • Identify and coordinate the roles and key actors that support the implementation of the Forest and Carbon monitoring system. Reference: MADS, 2012.

4. What we want is a National MRV system that assures … • Consistency of the generated information by systematic measurements (National Forest Inventory, Network of Permanent plots, availability of comparable satellite imagery). • Completeness by generating information of all five carbon pools and other GHG gases in natural forest with a Tier 2 approach (at least). • A quantified precision estimation, establishing uncertainty levels over procedures and results of activity data, emission factors and emission estimations. • Comparability by using standarized methodologies to generate oportune LULUCF information for GHG inventories • Availability and long term continuity of the trained personnel, under clear inter-institutional arrangements.

5. Status of National MRV Implementation Advance level ¿What are our advances? National Carbon Accounting Ambitions • Deforestation monitoring (1990-2000, 2005, 2010-2012) • Carbon Stocks estimation in Natural forests (2010, 2012) • Starting implementation of Forest and Carbon monitoring system for Colombia. • Conceptual and Geo-statistic framework for FNI. • 30 permanent plots for Carbon monitoring. • Sub-national Reference levels development (Colombian Amazon) under construction.

6. Status of National MRV Implementation Forest and Carbon Monitoring System. Design. Articulated with GHG Inventories. (Every two years) Updateable every two years Semiannual Status of MRV Implementation • PermanentPlots: • NFI Remote sensing + Carbon: Potential Carbon Stocks (pixel per pixel) Proposal development for forest degradation monitoring • PermanentPlots : • Researchinstitutions • IDEAM (REDD project)

7. Status of National MRV Implementation Early warning 2012 First Semester Early warning 2012 Second Semester

8. Status of National MRV Implementation 1990 2000 2005 2010 2012 Coverchange 1990-2000 Coverchange 2000 - 2005 Coverchange 2005-2010 Coverchange 2010-2012

9. Deforestation area Natural Regions 2011-2012 • 47% of deforestation 2011-2012 was located in the Colombian Amazon region, and 29% in the Andean region. • Compared with the last report (2005-2010), the concentration of the deforestation areas in this regions was increased from 33% and 36%, respectively. • Caribbean region had the highest forest loss area in the country during 2011-2012 (2.1%) .

10. Space Data Needs.Based on actual available sensors. • Semi-annual early warning System. Coarse resolution datasets • SAR. Best L band sensors or C/X band. Wide Beam modes. • Optical. Coarse resolutions, MODIS/LISS sensors. • Annual wall-to-wall. Medium resolutions datasets. • Landsat 8. Dedicated connection for the whole catalog. Pixel by pixel co-registered. • SAR. Best L band sensors or C/X band. Fine Beam modes. At least for the Pacific region whole coverage.

11. Space Data Needs • Annual wall-to-wall. Medium resolutions datasets. • Other medium resolutions catalogues (SPOT 5, LISS III/IV, next CBERS. • Validation based on stratified sample of High resolution images (i.e. spot 5/6, RapidEye, QB, Ikonos, Formosat). • DEM. National cover at the major resolution for pre-processing steps of Optical/SAR catalogues (SRTM, SRTM-ASTER, TanDEM).

12. Space Data types. • Plans: • SAR Interferometric catalogues for precision change cover analysis. Actually this information is not available for the country. • SAR/Optical complete time series to assure time consistency (deforestation and degradation ). Current challenges & obstacles. • Operational pre-processing SAR algorithms. • Cloud computing. • Degradation analysis.

13. Institutional arrangements UN- REDD PROGRAMME. Tenth Policy Board. 26-27 June 2013 Lombok , Indonesia. The Secretariat recommended that the Policy Board approve Colombia’s request. • Duration: 3 Years. • Budget: US $4 M (MPTF ONU-REDD). • Component 1: Participation and consulting, • Component 3: Develop an Subnational Reference level , • Component 4: Design Forest Monitoring System, and co-benefits, impacts and governance.

14. ! Muchas gracias ! ¡Thanks for your attention! More Information informacionredd@ideam.gov.co ecabreram@ideam.gov.co