2014-05-30
missao_embrapa
EU-Brazil Exchange provides input for Brazilian National Forest Inventory
Five Brazilian researchers - three from the Brazilian Agricultural Research Company (Embrapa) and two consultants from the GEF/FAO Project - participated in April in an international mission to the headquarters of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy, and of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in Rome. Sponsored by the EU-Brazil Sector Dialogues Support Facility and coordinated by the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management (MPOG) and the European Union Delegation in Brazil (Delbra), the mission had the purpose of exchanging experiences that will contribute to the improvement of Brazil’s National Forest Inventory (IFN-BR), a fundamental initiative for the assessment and monitoring of native or planted forest resources on a national scale.
In partnership with the Brazilian Forest Service (SFB) and FAO, Embrapa Forestry is developing a methodology for the so-called Landscape Sampling Units (UAPs), which are the geospatial component of the IFN-BR. Through satellite images of high and medium resolution, the UAPs will enable the monitoring of dynamics in forest use and cover, using indicators such as changes in land use and forest fragmentation. In partnership with the JRC and Slovakia’s National Forest Centre (NFC), FAO has developed the Global Remote Sensing Survey (RSS FAO), one of the most advanced projects in the world as far as worldwide mapping of land use and cover are concerned.
"The discussions we had during the technical mission will contribute greatly to the development of the methodology required for image processing to source key data related to the mapping of land use and cover", says researcher Yeda Malheiros Maria de Oliveira, from Embrapa Forestry. "The prospect of getting support from the JRC, with its expertise and tools adapted to the Brazilian conditions and the available data, will greatly boost the development of a methodology capable of producing quality results for the IFN-BR", she said.
At the JRC, in Ispra, the researchers had five days of meetings with the group specialised in monitoring land use and cover, featuring presentations of work in progress both in Brazil and the European Union and discussions on the format of the support that the JRC will provide to the UAP project. In Rome, at FAO headquarters, the researchers discussed the ongoing actions in the context of the UAP project as well as the activities to be undertaken by FAO staff in support of the Brazilian project.
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