Education & Capacity Building
Agenda: Methods for Biomass Estimation and Forest-Cover Mapping in the Tropics:
From Carbon Policy to Technical Training
Gorilla Hotel, Ruhengeri, Rwanda - June 21st-24th, 2011
June 21, 2011 (Tuesday) – Departure for Ruhengeri (Musanze)
7:30 Departure from Kigali
10:00 Arrival at the Gorilla Hotel, Ruhengeri - Technical training
11:00-12:30 Introduction, objectives, and logistics of workshop - Glenn Bush & Chloe Starr
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Introduction to forest and land cover mapping - Dr. Wayne Walker, Woods Hole Research Center
14:30-15:00 New approaches to map biomass - Dr. Alessandro Baccini, Woods Hole Research Center
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-15:45 Overview of open source (free) software - Mr. Ned Horning, American Museum of Natural History
15:45-16:15 Overview of algorithms - Mr. Ned Horning, American Museum of Natural History
16:15–17:30 Introduction to field protocols and new tools (ODK phones) - Dr. Alessandro Baccini & Dr. Wayne Walker Woods Hole Research Center & David Thau, Google
June 22, 2011 (Wednesday) – The Gorilla Hotel, Ruhengeri
6:00-8:00 Breakfast
Group 1 Biomass Exercise / Group 2 Field Trip
8:00-10:00 Biomass mapping exercise - Dr. Alessandro Baccini, Woods Hole Research Center
10:00-10:30 Scaling plot data - Dr. Alessandro Baccini, Woods Hole Research Center
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:45 Biomass mapping exercise - Dr. Alessandro Baccini, Woods Hole Research Center
Downloading and pre-processing of MODIS imagery using earth Engine - David Thau, Google
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:00 Data for model development and validation: Ideas and limitations - Dr. Alessandro Baccini, Woods Hole Research Center
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-17:00 Wrap-up/Discussion - Dr. Alessandro Baccini, Woods Hole Research Center
June 23, 2011 (Thursday) – The Gorilla Hotel, Ruhengeri
6:00-7:00 Breakfast
Group 2 Biomass Exercise / Group 1 Field Trip
7:00-8:00 Transport to field site
8:00–9:30 Hike to location of field exercise
9:30-12:00 Field exercise - Dr. Wayne Walker, Woods Hole Research Center & Dr. Alessandro Baccini, Woods Hole Research Center & Ned Horning, Woods Hole Research Center
12:00–13:00 Lunch
13:00–14:30 Hike to bus
14:30–16:00 Transport to Hotel la Palme
16:00–17:30 Calculating biomass from field observations - Dr. Alessandro Baccini, Woods Hole Research Center & David Thau, Google
17:30-18:00 Wrap-up
June 24, 2011 (Friday) – The Gorilla Hotel, Ruhengeri
8:00-9:45 Introduction to segmentation - Dr. Wayne Walker, Woods Hole Research Center
9:45-10:30 Introduction to radar remote sensing - Dr. Wayne Walker, Woods Hole Research Center
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:45 Forest/Non-forest Mapping Exercise - Dr. Wayne Walker, Woods Hole Research Center
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Review results of forest/non-forest mapping - Dr. Wayne Walker, Woods Hole Research Center
14:30-15:00 Discussion of techniques and their application - Dr. Wayne Walker, Woods Hole Research Center
15:00-16:00 Workshop closing and Departure logistic
Funding and support were provided by the following institutions:
National Forest Authority, Rwanda Development Board, Rwandan Environmental Management Authority, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, The David & Lucile Packard Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, NASA, and Google.org.
