Forestry Thematic Exploitation Platform A New Service Concept

Forestry Thematic Exploitation Platform A New Service Concept for Global Forestry Community (F-TEP) Tuomas Häme (VTT) – Project Manager Frank Martin Seifert (ESA) – Technical Officer

Objective of Forestry-TEP (F-TEP) “One-stop shop forestry remote sensing services for the academic, public and commercial sectors” § § Move away from model where each user works in their own ‘silo’ Community centric Reduce effort and costs of data acquisition from miscellaneous sources with varying formats and processing levels Self-service environment with support 2 2

Forestry-TEP Project § One of the six TEPs funded by ESA § Timeline: March 2015 - September 2017 § Completed work: User community survey, System design, Detailed design etc. § On-going work: System implementation, data and service agreements, pilot project preparation, sustainability development § Pre-operational services : Open forestry community (Around May 2017) § F-TEP project website: http: //forestry-tep. eo. esa. int/ § TEP : https: //tep. eo. esa. int/about-tep RSPSoc-2016 3

Coming up § October 2016: Initial version of F-TEP with only basic functionality will be open to two users o Mexican user community o UN-REDD FAO § March 2017 – March 2018: o Pilot version available for a wider community § 2017 aim to further develop functionalities and make F-TEP a permanent operational service 4 4

The F-TEP project team § Tuomas Häme (VTT) – Project Manager & User Community Leader § Renne Tergujeff (VTT) – Deputy Project Manager § Clive Farquhar (CGI) – Systems Development Manager 5 Infrastructure services: 5

User communities User Type Message Forest and climate research and development community Focus on science Large forest owners and managers Forest information without burden Forest certification organizations Big picture on forest Regional/national forest administration Forest at your fingertips UN organizations Support for sustainable forest management International Initiatives, research programs and panels Big picture on forest International development banks Knowing forest value Sustainable development NGOs Today’s information on forest state Value adding (SME) industries and consultants Global market for your services International administrations and agencies Marketplace for your data and information 6 Overall message: One-stop Shop for Forestry Earth Observation Services 6

Forestry TEP overall concept Providers Promotion, sales F-TEP EO data Ref. data Tools and Services Collaboration, Interaction, Support Web GUI VM environment Processing, Private workspaces, Collaboration, Sharing, Support Both free and commercial offerings and service levels Both open-source and licensed 7 Users’ ref. data Users’ algorithms /scripts services 7

Platform functionality § Access to relevant EO data § Efficient data exploitation § Toolboxes, services § Use of (own) in-situ data § Very simple user interface and procedure for basic tasks § Advanced features for more complex tasks § Accuracy assessment (RMS errors, confusion matrices) § Visual analysis 8 § Data management § Service development § Sharing/licensing products & services § Accounting § Collaborative working § Community features, forum § Support helpdesk § Usage scenarios o 1 - EO Data Exploitation o 2 - New EO Service Development o 3 - New EO Product Development 8

Examples of FTEP service Thematic mapping and statistical data on accuracy N=108 Keskipituus (m) Keskiläpimitta (cm) Runkoluku Keskitilavuus Pohjapinta(/ha) (m 3/ha) ala (m 2/ha) Ennusteen keskiarvo 17 21 1666 216 23 Bias -6 -7 1207 -51 21 Bias % -32 -31 72 -23 90 RMSE 7 9 1424 93 6 41 41 85 43 26 RMSE % Cuttings in Finland from Landsat-8 2014 and Sentinel-2 2015 Autochange method. VTT. Area size 15 km by 15 km 9 9

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Beta product: map of broadleaved shrubs from Sentinel-2 11 11

Usage scenarios 1. Generation of products (primarily for the user himself) § Exploitation using the available processing and visualization tools 2. Creation of a new processing service § Possible to publish and sell the service also for others 3. Generation of new products for publishing § Ready-made products available on the platform 12 12

Data sources (free of charge and commercial) § Sentinel-1 § Sentinel-2 § Landsat-5/7/8 § ERS-1/2 SAR § Envisat ASAR § DEM (various) § ALOS PALSAR § JERS § Pleiades § Spot § SAOCOM (future) § Rapid. Eye 13 13

Services and tools § SNAP - Sentinel toolboxes § Monteverdi / Orfeo toolbox § QGIS § Open Foris § Preprocessing, ortho-rectification, and radiometric and geometric correction tools § VTT services Auto. Change, Probability, Envimon § Further services § Possibly output of other projects, such as: o ESA: Innovators III Accu. Carbon o ESA DUE Glob. Biomass o ESA: Innovators III SAR for REDD 14 14

F-TEP Approach for user support § Users have varying levels of expertise in EO data and processing o EO Novices: forest specialists, policy makers, administration o EO Experts: academics, professionals § Simplicity for novice users – web site with push-button functionality § Full capability for expert users – virtual environment, state-of-the-art tools § Learning support for all – self-explaining UI, wiki, videos, forum, helpdesk § All users start with a simple web user interface o Can unlock new functionality in line with the (growing) confidence 15 15

Similar and different requirements among user groups § Similar requirements o Easy access to a range of specific products o Timely access to data o Access to wide set of data types § Diversity in user requirements o e. g. spatial resolution, processing levels, source data, geographic area o Scale: from small study areas to sites of province and country level 16 16

User Interface Mock-up Selection of data and processing § Explorer/Data 17 17

User Interface Mock-up Monitoring and management of the processing tasks § Workspace/My Jobs 18 18

Core users in the preoperational phase § Ministry of Environment and Natural History, State Government Chiapas, Mexico o Forestry Development § Juarez University of Durango State, Mexico § CONAFOR – National Forestry Commission, Mexico § FAO – Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN o Forestry Assessment, Management and Conservation § JRC – Joint Research Centre of EC o Forest Resources and Climate Unit § GFOI – Global Forestry Observations Initiative § UN-REDD – the UN Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) § Metsäkeskus – The Finnish Forest Centre § SME’s part of the consortium 19 19

Pilots in Mexico and Finland Monitoring of forest carbon in Mexico Mapping of harmful broadleaved shrubs in regeneration areas 20 20

Pilot projects Pilot 1 (Mexico) Pilot 2 (Finland) Region Chiapas and Durango states Finland Area covered 73, 311 km 2 (Chiapas) and 123, 317 km 2 (Durango) 338, 424 km 2 (TBD according to user preferences) Theme Monitoring of above ground biomass and quantifying associated carbon stocks for climate change reporting Operational forest management; mapping undesired broadleaved tree shrubs on forest regeneration areas Key outputs Forest cover mapping and change detection Map on degree of shrub damage on regeneration areas Key data used Sentinel-1 SAR, Sentinel-2 optical (one state) Sentinel-2 Optical In-situ data 1: Durango university ground sample network 2: From ESA pilot project Educ. EO 3: Optionally NFI plots from Chiapas Forestry Centre’s stand database Ministry of Environment and Natural History of the state government of Chiapas Finnish Forest Centre (part of Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry) University of Durango ESA nominated users Key users involved Collected by Forestry Centre during standard field work Mexican NGO’s (several) ESA nominated users 21 21

Costs and sustainability § The development phase is paid by ESA § Aiming at sustainable operation after the pre-operations phase – permanent F-TEP § Costs accounting is supported to enable pay-per-use model § Alternative business models: § Fees from service, data and product providers § Donor fund § Freemium model is currently the primary approach § Free entry-level services § Multiple service levels 22 22

F-TEP Evolution Research users § Develop and share new algorithms or EO products for the research community through F-TEP § Share ideas & enable collaboration Routine end users § Acquire required products easily through F-TEP Forest resources management Change, Silviculture damage Harvesting Nature REDD conservation New sensors Data fusion F-TEP National forest inventory Carbon cycle Ecosystem services Novel algorithms Advanced expert users § Develop new services or products to increase offering Forest resources management Silviculture Harvesting Administrator users make it all happen Non-EO users 23 23

Conclusions § Implementation ongoing and project on schedule § Key challenge is to enlighten and encourage the forest user community to use F-TEP § Ensure sustainability – large enough user base a prerequisite with few giant users § Communication network is an issue outside Europe 24 24

One-stop shop forestry remote sensing services for the academic, operational public and commercial sectors Contact forestry-tep. eo. esa. int Tuomas Häme tuomas. hame@vtt. fi +358 40 587 0631 Renne Tergujeff renne. tergujeff@vtt. fi +358 40 501 7057 In the photo, with permission: Daniel Vega / Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, a Forestry TEP pilot user