"How to map the changing carbon stocks of the world's tropical forests" with Dr Edward Mitchard

Past Event

Date
 02 November 2018, 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Location
 Herbertson Room, OUCE
Herbertson Room, OUCE, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY

This event is organised by the Oxford Centre of Tropical Forests (OCTF). Please book a place at https://bookwhen.com/octf

About the speaker

Dr Edward Mitchard (Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh) leads a research group working on developing and testing methods of using remote sensing data from satellite and drones to map the carbon stocks of tropical forests and savannas. He will discuss the different types of remote sensing data, and their strengths and weaknesses in mapping deforestation, degradation, regrowth and absolute carbon stocks. All these studies are based on field data, and we will give examples from field sites in Cameroon, Congo, Peru and Indonesia. He will also look to the future, discussing the new satellite missions to be launched in the next few years and what extra information they will give us about the tropical carbon cycle, and providing details on a new project just starting designed to map forest degradation across the tropics.