Project description
Tree-level biomass maps for outside forest tree monitoring
More than 25 % of Africa’s trees grow outside forests. This is a challenge for forest and landscape restoration. Monitoring trees on fields and plantations is particularly challenging for smallholder farmers. The ERC-funded TOFDRY project has developed tools to address these challenges, but further efforts are needed. This ERC-funded TREEMAP project aims to bridge this gap by applying research findings in Africa, focusing on developing tree-level biomass maps for end users such as governmental authorities and NGOs. The project will produce local/regional-scale tree-level biomass maps and annual high-resolution biomass maps at a national scale. TREEMAP will collaborate with AUDA-NEPAD to facilitate multi-sectoral use of the biomass maps and provide verification of FLR initiatives to attract financing.
Objective
Trees outside forests make up more than one quarter of the tree cover in Africa, but there is currently a lack of efficient and reliable monitoring systems for trees outside forests. Previous research suggests that most forest and landscape restoration (FLR) is occurring outside of contiguous forests, particularly in agroforestry systems. This implies that tree on fields, in particular those of smallholder farmers, as well as trees in restoration and plantation areas cannot be effectively and rapidly monitored. The ERC project TOFDRY has developed methods and tools that can fulfil these tasks, but the project outputs are not harmonized and not operational. The TREEMAP project aims at moving research into practical and needed application in Africa that facilitate the use of tree level biomass maps with end-users, such as governmental authorities or NGOs. TREEMAP will conduct a user needs assessment, and harmonize TOFDRY methods to develop operational products at two scales: (1) local/regional scale tree-level biomass maps using sub-meter resolution imagery, (2) annual high resolution biomass maps at national scale based on PlanetScope images, with a focus on dynamics in farmlands and restoration/plantation areas. Finally, TREEMAP will disseminate and distribute demo-products to end-users. TREEMAP will partner with AUDA-NEPAD, who is setting up in-country institutional arrangements to enable multi-sector use of the biomass maps. TREEMAP products will generate visibility on and verification of FLR efforts that can attract climate finance. Tree-level biomass maps contribute to Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventories, the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) reporting, and potential participation in carbon markets. Placing highly accurate, user friendly, regularly updated, analysis ready products in the hands of non-experts in Africa allows widespread participation in FLR monitoring and carbon markets.
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