The proposed work is relevant to the specific objectives of this NASA carbon monitoring system solicitation including rigorous exploitation of NASA and international partner satellite remote sensing…

The proposed work is relevant to the specific objectives of this NASA carbon monitoring system solicitation including rigorous exploitation of NASA and international partner satellite remote sensing resources and computational capabilities. The subsidiary body of scientific and technological advice (sbsta) of the unfccc agreed in june 2013 that continuous improvement of data and methods is vital for developing MRV systems for redd+. In particular sbsta identified the need to reduce uncertainties in emissions accounting and to develop methodologically consistent ways to harness new observational data whether field or remote sensing that can be used to report against reference levels of deforestation and forest degradation as well as associated reference emission levels (sbsta 2013). To develop methodologically consistent transparent yet flexible accounting methods as required in the international framework of the unfccc as well as numerous BI- and multi-lateral agreements the group on earth observation (GEO) has established a forest carbon tracking task (geofct).