From February 5 to 8, the presentation of the project “Monitoring of forest carbon dynamics in response to disturbances in the southwestern Amazon” was held in Lima and Madre de Dios. This event was organized under the leadership of Dr. Izaya Numata from the University of South Dakota with the support of the Amazon Conservation GIS team – ACCA, as part of the fourth cycle of the NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration Applied Science Teams program.
The project will focus on generating carbon loss and gain maps for the last decade in Madre de Dios, Peru, and the Brazilian state of Acre, fusing spatial information from various sources, such as optical sensors, forest inventories, and lidar data from NASA’s GEDI mission.
During the presentations, the objectives of the research that focuses on generating spatial databases on the dynamics of gain and loss of forest biomass (and carbon) in the Amazon region of Madre de Dios and the Brazilian state of Acre were addressed. The research will use the Lidar sensor from NASA’s GEDI mission to calibrate models of tree heights, along with forest inventory information from field monitoring plots.
This data will be scaled to the entire Madre de Dios region, using optical sensors such as Landsat and Sentinel images. It is expected to generate databases from 2010 to 2022 on the dynamics of plant biomass, which will have important applications in monitoring greenhouse gas emissions.
The seminar had the participation of state representatives from institutions such as Serfor Perú, the Ministry of the Environment of Peru, CITE (Centro de Innovación Productiva y Transferencia Tecnológica de la región Madre de Dios), SERNANP Peru (Servicio Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas por el Estado), and members of civil society and the private sector, including the Wyss Academy for Nature, CINCIA (Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica), AIDER (Asociación para la Investigación y Desarrollo Integral), Arbio Peru, IBC (Instituto del Bien Común) – and CI Peru (Conservación Internacional).
For more information please contact: snovoa@conservacionamazonica.org