Description
Nature-based climate solutions are an increasingly critical component of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions to meet the Paris Agreement goal of keeping temperature change to below 2-degrees celsius. Blue carbon ecosystems, such as mangroves, salt marshes, and sea grasses, are a key aspect of nature-based climate solutions because of high carbon sequestration rates, long-term burial of carbon in sediments, potential for restoration, and connections to many additional ecosystem services.
This training builds from a series of previous trainings on Remote Sensing of Coastal Ecosystems, Remote Sensing of Mangroves, and Remote Sensing of Greenhouse Gases, and Remote Sensing of Carbon Monitoring for Terrestrial Ecosystems to provide a comprehensive overview of blue carbon ecosystem remote sensing. The course will guide participants through mapping extent and quantifying the carbon stocks of blue carbon ecosystems using earth observations to support restoration, monitoring, and quantification goals of these ecosystems.
By the end of this training attendees will be able to:
- Identify blue carbon ecosystems and the role they play in global carbon budgets
- Map the extent of blue carbon ecosystems using satellite observations
- Measure the carbon stock of mapped blue carbon ecosystems
- Identify contexts in which earth observation data of carbon stocks in blue carbon ecosystems can inform reporting, monitoring, accounting and advocacy.
Primary target audience: Local, regional, state, federal, foreign ministries and non-governmental organizations involved in coastal ecosystem management.
Secondary target audience: Remote sensing practitioners, academics, and students looking to learn more about how to use remote sensing to study blue carbon
- Two 90-minute parts (28 and 30 October 2024)
- Each part will have one session delivered in English (10:00-11:30 AM ET) and one identical session delivered in French (2:00-3:30 PM ET).
Guest Instructors: Lola Fatoyinbo, Adia Bey, María Claudia Díazgranados Cadelo, Siti Maryam Yaakub
- Define a blue carbon ecosystem based on ecosystem characteristics
- Map the extent of mangrove ecosystems using satellite observations
- Calculate the carbon stock of mapped mangrove ecosystems
Guest Speakers: Kelly Luis, Anthony Campbell
- Map the extent of salt marsh and seagrass ecosystems using satellite observations
- Calculate the carbon stocks of mapped salt marsh and seagrass ecosystems
- Explore synthesis methods to estimate blue carbon across ecosystems
