iScience (Apr 2023)
Toward a roadmap for space-based observations of the land sector for the UNFCCC global stocktake
- Osamu Ochiai,
- Benjamin Poulter,
- Frank Martin Seifert,
- Stephen Ward,
- Ian Jarvis,
- Alyssa Whitcraft,
- Ritvik Sahajpal,
- Sven Gilliams,
- Martin Herold,
- Sarah Carter,
- Laura Innice Duncanson,
- Heather Kay,
- Richard Lucas,
- Sylvia N. Wilson,
- Joana Melo,
- Joanna Post,
- Stephen Briggs,
- Shaun Quegan,
- Mark Dowell,
- Alessandro Cescatti,
- David Crisp,
- Sassan Saatchi,
- Takeo Tadono,
- Matt Steventon,
- Ake Rosenqvist
Affiliations
- Osamu Ochiai
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Satellite Applications and Operation Center, 2-1-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8505, Japan; Corresponding author
- Benjamin Poulter
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Lab., Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Frank Martin Seifert
- European Space Agency (ESA), ESRIN, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Stephen Ward
- Symbios, Vaucluse, Sydney, NSW 2030, Australia
- Ian Jarvis
- Group on Earth Observations (GEO), GEOGLAM Secretariat, 7bis Avenue de la Paix, Case postale 2300, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
- Alyssa Whitcraft
- Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
- Ritvik Sahajpal
- Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
- Sven Gilliams
- Vlaamse Instelling Technologish Onderzoek (VITO), Boeretang 200, 2400 Mol, Belgium
- Martin Herold
- Helmholtz GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 1.4 Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
- Sarah Carter
- World Resources Institute, Bezuidenhoutseweg 105, 2594 AC The Hague, the Netherlands
- Laura Innice Duncanson
- Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
- Heather Kay
- Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, SY23 3DB Aberystwyth, UK
- Richard Lucas
- Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, SY23 3DB Aberystwyth, UK
- Sylvia N. Wilson
- United States Geological Survey (USGS), National Land Imaging Program, Reston, VA 20192, USA
- Joana Melo
- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, LS2 9JT Leeds, UK
- Joanna Post
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat, UN Campus Platz der Vereinten Nationen 1 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Stephen Briggs
- Department of Meteorology, Reading University Whiteknights, RG6 6AH Reading, UK; Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University, Lensfield Road, CB1 2EW Cambridge, UK
- Shaun Quegan
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield, S3 7RH Sheffield, UK
- Mark Dowell
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Directorate Sustainable Resources, Ispra, Italy
- Alessandro Cescatti
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Directorate Sustainable Resources, Ispra, Italy
- David Crisp
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (Retired), 616 Antrim Place, La Canada, CA 91011, USA
- Sassan Saatchi
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
- Takeo Tadono
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Satellite Applications and Operation Center, 2-1-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8505, Japan
- Matt Steventon
- Symbios, Vaucluse, Sydney, NSW 2030, Australia
- Ake Rosenqvist
- solo Earth Observation (soloEO), Kachidoki, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0054, Japan
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 26,
no. 4
p. 106489
Abstract
Summary: Space-based remote sensing can make an important contribution toward monitoring greenhouse gas emissions and removals from the agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) sector, and to understanding and addressing human-caused climate change through the UNFCCC Paris Agreement. Space agencies have begun to coordinate their efforts to identify needs, collect and harmonize available data and efforts, and plan and maintain a long-term roadmap for observations. International cooperation is crucial in developing and realizing the roadmap, and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) is a key coordinating driver of this effort. Here, we first identify the data and information that will be useful to support the global stocktake (GST) of the Paris Agreement. Then, the paper explains how existing and planned space-based capabilities and products can be used and combined, particularly in the land use sector, and provides a workflow for their harmonization and contribution to greenhouse gas inventories and assessments at the national and global level.
