OSFAC Virtual Seminar on "Congo Basin Forest Monitoring For Sustainable Management"
Seminar Agenda Available in English and French
Final Meeting Report Available in English and French
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Day 1: July 12, 2021 (Recording) OSFAC Virtual Seminar on "Congo Basin Forest Monitoring For Sustainable Management" |
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Sessions | Organizations | Panelists | Topics/Titles |
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15:00 - 15:05 |
Virtual Welcome | OSFAC, START, GOFC-GOLD | Landing MANE, Clay OBOTH & Krishna VADREVU | Welcoming participants |
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15:05 - 15:15 |
Official Opening | Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MEDD) of the DRC | Benjamin TOIRAMBE | Opening remarks of the workshop |
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15:15 - 16:00 |
International initiatives for the protection and conservation of the Congo Basin forests |
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Africa (GMES) (African Union Commission) | Tidiane OUATTARA & Mahaman Bachir SALEY |
Analysis and management of natural resources in the GMES & Africa Program |
| USAID/CARPE |
Alastair McNEILAGE |
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German Cooperation (GIZ) |
Gabrielle MUNDUKU |
Biodiversity and Forest Management Maintenance Program (BGF) |
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National REDD Fund (FONAREDD) |
Victor KABENGELE | REDD Integrated Programs (PIREDD) | ||
| 16:00 - 17:15 |
National Forest Monitoring Systems in Congo Basin Countries |
Forest Management and Inventories Department (DIAF-DRC) |
Malick MUAMBA | DRC Forest Monitoring System |
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National Center for Inventory and Development of Forest and Wildlife Resources (CNIAF_RoC) |
Carine MILANDOU | Republic of Congo (RoC) Forest Monitoring System | ||
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Gabonese Agency for Space Studies and Observations (AGEOS-Gabon) |
Conan Vassily OBAME | |||
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National Observatory on Climate Change (ONACC-Cameroon) |
Socrates BIANRA | Cameroun Forest Monitoring System | ||
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Thematic studies |
University of Maryland (UMD) |
Matthew HANSEN | ||
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Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL-Belgium) |
Pierre DEFOURNY & Juliette Dalimier / Quentin Jungers |
Mapping the Congo Basin forest types from the Sentinel fleet | ||
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University of California Los Angeles (UCLa) |
Sassan SAATCHI | |||
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Day 2: July 13, 2021 (Recording) OSFAC Virtual Seminar on "Congo Basin Forest Monitoring For Sustainable Management" |
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Time (GMT +1) |
Sessions | Organizations | Panelists | Topics/Titles |
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15:00 - 15:05 |
Virtual welcome | OSFAC, GOFC-GOLD, START | Landing MANE, Clay OBOTH & Krishna VADREVU | Welcoming participants |
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15:05 - 16:30 |
Thematic studies (deforestation, degradation, fires, land use, biomass, carbon, CO2 emissions, restoration, Governance, carbon trading, etc.
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Université Marien Ngouabi (RoC) |
Suspense Averti IFO |
Forest deforestation and degradation around Republic of Congo cities |
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NORCE – Norwegian Research Centre AS |
Jörg HAARPAINTNER |
Radar Analysis Ready Data for Central African Forest Monitoring |
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US Forest Services (USFS) |
Richard PATON (UNABLE TO PRESENT) |
Land Use Planning and resources management in Central Africa |
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FAO |
Erik LINDQUIST |
FAO Tools for systematic reference data collection in land cover and use applications |
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World Resources Institute (WRI) |
Kendie KENMOE |
Forest Atlas, a tool for monitoring the forests of the Congo Basin in near real time |
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Central Africa Forest Satellite Observatory (OSFAC) |
Landing MANE & Serge KALAWU |
Forest fire mapping to support forest defenses, restoration and Co2 emissions in Central Africa |
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WILDLIFE WORKS / ERA Congo |
Jean-Robert BWANGOY (UNABLE TO PRESENT) |
Carbon Trading through the Preservation and Improvement of Forests |
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| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Data Access / Data Sharing for Central Africa |
Gabonese Agency for Space Studies and Observations (AGEOS-Gabon) |
Vianney MPIGA ASSELE |
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Central Africa Forest Observatory (OFAC) |
Quentin JUNGUERS / Florence PALLA |
Central Africa Forest Observatory (OFAC) new analytical portal |
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Central Africa Forest Satellite Observatory (OSFAC) |
Landing MANE & Victor KADIATA |
Availability and access to geospatial data for Central Africa |
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Workshop Closing |
OSFAC-START-GOFC GOLD |
Landing MANE, Clay OBOTH & Krishna VADREVU |
Summary & next steps | |
Meeting start date
07/12/2021
Meeting end date
07/13/2021
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