Concept of the monitoring system

RSS - Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH 12 Figure 1: The BIOCLIME districts and the nine project areas.

2. Concept of the monitoring system

The four Work Packages mentioned above form the basis of the developed monitoring system. The concept of the monitoring system consists of three components: historical, current and monitoring Figure 2. The historical component includes an analysis of the historic fire regime on the basis of Landsat imagery WP 4: Historic fire regime as well as historic land cover change maps produced by ICRAF international Center for Research in Agroforestry in order to identify drivers of deforestation and carbon emissions WP 1: Historic land cover change and carbon emission baseline. The current component comprises the development the development of aboveground biomass and tree community composition models from airborne LiDAR data WP 3: Aboveground biomass and tree community composition modelling as well as a forest benchmark map derived from high resolution satellite images WP 2: Forest benchmark mapping and monitoring in order to create and retrieve local aboveground biomass values WP 3: Aboveground biomass and tree community composition modelling. The main objectives, methodological approaches, results and conclusions for each of the Work Packages is described in the following text. A more detailed description of these Work Packages is given the respective Work Package final reports. As the derived local aboveground biomass values build up the basis for the carbon stock and emission calculations in WP 1, WP 2 and WP 4 it was decided to first describe Work Package 3 Aboveground biomass modelling and tree community composition modelling. RSS - Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH 13 Figure 2: Concept of the monitoring system. Also shown is which parts of the monitoring system are covered by which Work Packages: WP 1 Work Package 1: Historic land cover change and carbon emission baseline; WP 2 Work Package 2: Forest benchmark mapping and monitoring; WP 3 Work Package 3: Aboveground biomass and tree community composition modelling; WP 4 Work Package 4: Historic fire regime. 3. Objectives 3.1. Work Package 3 WP 3: Aboveground biomass and tree community