New webinar series “NICFI High Res 2.0: progress in the tropics”

Building on the success of our first webinar series, GFOI is proud to again team up with @Climateforest @KSAT_Kongsberg @planetlabs @Airbus to host a follow up webinar series. The aim is to explore how countries have been using the NICFI Satellite Data Program to better monitor their forests and enable action to combat deforestation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

English - 6 September

Moderator: Tom Harvey, GFOI Office

Start at 09:00am CEST.

· Welcome remarks, Karine Hertzberg (NICFI) – 5 mins

· Data availability and uptake, Charlotte Bishop (KSAT) – 10 mins

· Country case studies: How is the NICFI data being used to inform climate action, reporting and decision making in tropical countries?

o Mr Leng Chivin from Cambodia, who is the Director of the Department of Geographic Information Services and Cambodia's REDD+/MRV Coordinator in the Ministry of Environment.

o Heiru Sebrala Ahmed from Ethiopia, who is the Director , Forest Resources Assessment & Monitoring Directorate at the Ethiopian Forestry Development

· Q&A (facilitated by Pooja Pandey) – up to 40mins.

Finish at 10:30am CEST.

French - 7 September

Moderator: Inge Jonckheere, FAO

Start at 15:00pm CEST.

· Welcome remarks, Jostein Lindland (NICFI) – 5 mins

· Data availability and uptake, Romain Poly (KSAT) – 10 mins

· Country case studies: How is the NICFI data being used to inform climate action, reporting and decision making in countries?

o CAFI project countries (Tatiana Nana) – 20mins

o Gabon (Francis MANFOUMBI) – 20mins

· Q&A (facilitated by Romain Polly from KSAT) – up to 40mins.

Finish at 16:30pm CEST.

Spanish - 8 September

Moderator: Sylvia Wilson, US SilvaCarbon Programme

Start at 18:00pm CEST // 12:00 midday US Eastern.

· Welcome remarks, Karine Hertzberg (NICFI) – 5 mins

· Data availability and uptake, Andrea Cardenas Reyes (Planet) – 10 mins

· Country case studies: How is the NICFI data being used to inform climate action, reporting and decision making in tropical countries?

o Mexico (Alexander Quevedo Chacón) – 10mins

o Peru (Patricia Duran Montesinos) – 10mins

· Q&A (facilitated by Luisa Teixeira from Planet) – up to 40mins.

Finish at 19:30pm CEST // 13:30 US Eastern.

#HighRes4Forests

When: The webinar has been run over three consecutive days to service the three predominant language groups and time zones of the GFOI community:

English: Tuesday 6 September @ 09:00 CEST // 14:00 Bangkok // 19:00 Suva.
French: Wednesday 7 September @ 15:00 CEST and Central Africa.
Spanish: Thursday 8 September @ 18:00 CEST // 12:00 US EDT.

As you’ve probably heard by now, GFOI’s leading partner Norway has made high resolution satellite imagery of the entire tropical land mass freely available to all. The announcement, made amidst the doom and gloom of 2020, put a smile on the faces of tropical forest countries and forest monitoring practitioners alike who had long been seeking greater access to higher resolution imagery to support their work.

In September 2020, Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) entered in to a partnership with Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT), Planet and Airbus to provide free access to high resolution satellite imagery to complement other earth observations and provide powerful information to inform action on climate change, forest management and sustainable development.

At the time, GFOI convened a series a webinars to introduce the forest monitoring community to the NICFI Satellite Data Program and, demonstrate how the data can be accessed and used. This initial webinar series was highly successful with record breaking participation from tropical forest countries, development partners, academia, the private sector and others all joining in the conversation. Thus far, the program has registered over 14,000 users from 155 countries around the world.

With the program now operational for over 18 months and recently extended until September 2023, we thought it was high-time we convened a follow up series to check-in on progress and hear how countries have been using the data to monitor their forests. We have also heard how the GFOI network has been working to help train countries to make full use of the data and ultimately help inform their climate action and forest management practices.

Thank you for joining us to learn how you too can be making good use of this unprecedented opportunity to access high resolution imagery to take a closer look at tropical forests.

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Contacts

For more information on the webinar, please contact [email protected].

For more detailed information and entry points for access and download, the project’s landing page can be accessed at www.planet.com/nicfi.

You can also contact our 24/7 help desk for technical questions on the data, how to access it or where to find more information: [email protected].