DAAD ForestSAT Workshop
The Chair of Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology at University of Göttingen together with the Instituto Bosques y Sociedad, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Recursos Naturales at Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia (UACh) is this year hosting the 6th International DAAD Alumni and Student Workshop on “The science policy gap regarding informed decisions in forest policy and forest management: what scientific information are policy makers really interested in?” that will take place in Santiago de Chile (12. to 20. November 2016).
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Background
This DAAD funded workshop will take place along the ForestSat congress in Santiago de Chile. ForestSAT 2016 is the seventh edition of this international scientific conference, which aims to disseminate the latest knowledge gained from research in the field of remote sensing and geomatics in forestry applications. We organized this student and alumni workshop together with our partners from the Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Recursos Naturales at Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia (UACh). Thanks to the funding of DAAD, we are now looking back to a series of very successful student and alumni workshops that bring together DAAD funded international students from our international Master program (TIF) and professionals and alumni from all over the world. For more background information on prior workshops in this series we refer to the category DAAD workshops.
Guest lectures
The program for our workshop is divided in two parts. Before we meet on our workshop in Chile there will be an introductory seminar with guest lectures held at the University of Göttingen. These presentations gave an introduction to the role of International Forestry Policies and the role of National Forest Data and Information.
Introduction seminar papers (07.11.2016, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen, Room F02)
The Seminar will be on Wednesday, 07 November 2016 from 8:30 till 13:00 in lecture hall F02. The seminar is open for public. The seminar program can be downloaded here...
08:30 - 08:45 h
Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleinn, Head of Chair of Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing, Universty of Göttingen: Welcome
Dr. Uwe Muuß, Director of International Office, University of Göttingen: Opening Adress
08:45 - 09:30 h
Thomas Enters, Ph.D., UNEP, Bangkok: Getting ready for REDD+ in Asia and the Pacific. Experiences of the UN-REDD Programme Thomas Enters is UN-REDD Regional Coordinator of the United Nations Environment Programme He was working as the Regional Technical Advisor of the UN-REDD Programme for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for the last six years until recently.
09:30 - 10:15 h
Friedrich Schmitz, BMEL, Bonn: The German NFI - what is the task and what are the expectations of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Mr. Schmitz is desk officer in the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture and there responsible for the National forest inventory. He is forest student of university of Freiburg / Breisgau and made his state exames in Baden-Württemberg.
10:15 - 11:00 h
Dr. David Morales-Hidalgo, FAO, Rome: A National Forest Monitoring System, more than data collection: Some key highlights from the FAO Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring
Dr. Morales-Hidalgo is Forestry Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). He has more than 20 years working experience in the private, public, NGO and academia in the fields of forest assessment/monitoring, environmental conservation, forest management, forest assessment, climate change and project management in Latin America, North America, Europe, Africa and Central Asia.
11:00 - 11:30 h Coffee / Tea break
11:30 - 12:15 h
Ragna John, GIZ, Eschborn: Forest Landscape Restoration in the context of German development cooperation
Ragna John is a qualified forest manager and expert in international forest and climate policy. Since 2012, she is working as a consultant in the GIZ Sektorvorhaben international forest policy.
12:15 - 13:00 h
Dr. Christiane Ehringhaus, KfW, Frankfurt: The importance of forest monitoring for result-based finance: experiences from the REDD Early Movers Program
Dr. Ehringhaus is program coordinator for the REDD Early Movers Program at KfW.
Workshop Program (13.-18. November 2016, Santiago de Chile)
Workshop program in PDF format
Sunday 13 November: Arrival Day
All Day: Arrival of participants, Transfer from Airport to hotel
18:30 - 20:00: Internal meeting of organization committee
DAY ONE; 14 November 2016
Moderation/Minutes: Kumar Bahadur Darjee and George Ofori Ankomah, Supervisor: Marco Gonzales
09:00 - 09:30: Welcome and opening address - Christoph Kleinn
09:30 - 10:00 Introductory words and program introduction - Christoph Kleinn, Victor Sandoval
10:00 - 10:30 Best practice in scientific writing — Alina Kleinn
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee beak
SESSION 1 - Conservation & Biodiversity
Moderation/Minutes: Jhenny Salgado and Kevin Jair Hernández Bado, Supervisor: José Imaña
11:00 - 11:20 Use and conservation of biodiversity - Inventory and assessment of ecosystems with relict tree species as a tool for establishing criteria for forest public policy - Eduardo Treviño
11:20 - 11:40 Property size as determinant of forest conservati-on in Chile: Implications for policy design - Ricardo González Jimenez Jerarquía
11:40 - 12:00 Zoning of an agrisilviculture System: Organic coffee production in Santa Cruz Island - Galápagos - Alejandra Valdés & Ysabel Perdomo
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break
SESSION 2 - Participatory forest management
Moderation/Minutes: Alejandra Valdés and Ysabel Perdomo, Supervisor: Christian Velasco
13:30 - 13:50 The integrated naranjilla round table - Christian Velasco
13:50 - 14:10 The implementation of community based forestry as REDD+ activity: Comparative study in Indonesia and Ethiopia - Shibire Bekele Eshetu & Sonya Dyah Kusumadewi
14:10 - 14:30 Community forestry in Nepal and Mexico: Concept, learning, challenges and way forward - Fátima del Carmen Acevedo Benìtez & Arun Parajuli
14:30 - 14:50 Recognising the ancestral land and biodiversity conservation efforts of indigenous people in Quinchao municipality using GIS- and participatory 3D-mapping tool - Precious Annie Lopez & Nolwenn Boucher
14:50 - 15:20 Coffee break
SESSION 3 - Forest inventory and decision support
Moderation/Minutes: Rebeca Campos Valverde and Frederick Dadzie, Subervisor: Mauricio Vega
15:20 - 15:40 Effect of timber enumeration errors on timber value and decision making - Cori Ham
15:40 - 16:00 Investigating the effect of logging and the optimum sampling design in the tropical forests of Papua New Guinea - Riccardo Testolin
16:00 - 16:20 Geographic Information System of urban forestry Pereira, Colombia - Gustavo Cardona
16:20 - 16:40 Zoning organic management of Maqui (Aristotelia chilensis) in the region of Los Ríos, Chile - Julio Gerding Vegas & Milton Serpa
16:40 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 18:30 Group working session
DAY TWO; 15 November 2016
SESSION 4 - Land use conflicts
Moderation/Minutes: Shibire Bekele Eshetu and Sonya Dyah Kusumadewi, Supervisor: Stefan Erasmi
09:00 - 09:20 Land use and land use change in forestry (LULUCF). A status quo of forestry resources and policy intervention to forest dependents (livelihood) - Vianny Ahimbisibwe & Thakur Prasad Magrati
09:20 - 09:40 Coverage and land use changes - Nayadeth Damari Muñoz Gómez & Julia Pintos
09:40 - 10:00 Illegal gold mining in Amazon Rainforest: the peruvian capital of biodiversity at risk of an environmental catastrophy - Rodrigo Vera
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
SESSION 5 - Methods in Remote Sensing
Moderation/Minutes: Fátima del Carmen Acevedo Benìtez and Arun Parajuli, Supervisor: Eduardo Treviño
10:30 - 10:50 The role of Landsat time-series in forest dynamics research - Wanda Graf
10:50 - 11:10 Time Series of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index in Costa Rica - A highly bioclimatic diverse landscapes - Mauricio Vega
11:10 - 11:30 Radar remote sensing for forest parameter estimation - Stefan Erasmi
11:30 - 11:50 Monitoring Land Cover Changes in Jambi Province, Sumatra using Sentinel-1 and Google Earth Engine - Kira Urban & Lutz Fehrmann
11:50 - 12:10 Exploring NDVI as a remote sensing tool for monitoring tropical forest - Rebeca Campos Valverde & Frederick Dadzie
12:10 - 13:30 Lunch break
SESSION 6 - Climate Change
Moderation/Minutes: Wanda Graf and Riccardo Testolin, Supervisor: Hugo Zerda
13:30 - 13:50 Biomass on a fragment of the Atlantic Forest at the state of Espirito Santo, Brazil - José Imaña
13:50 - 14:10 Above ground biomass estimation related to field measurement errors - Ramón Trucios
14:10 - 14:30 Climate Change adaptation of forest dependent poor people: A case study comparing Nepal and Ghana - Kumar Bahadur Darjee & George Ofori Ankomah
14:30 - 14:50 Species distribution models as a tool to explore potential effects of climate change in montane forests - Carlos Manchego
14:50 - 15:20 Coffee break
SESSION 7 - Case studies
Moderation/Minutes: Vianny Ahimbisibwe and Thakur Prasad Magrati, Supervisor: Cori Ham
15:20 - 15:40 Sustainable landscape in the forests of southern Chile - Victor Sandoval & Luis Otero
15:40 - 16:00 Fire history in mexican conifers forest - Marco Gonzales
16:00 - 16:20 Spatial and temporal patterns of fires at the wildland- rural-urban interface. Study case of Santiago del Estero, in Argentina´s chaco dry forest region - Hugo Zerda
16:20 - 16:50 Coffee break
16:50 - 17:30 Group work sessions
DAY THREE; 16 November 2016
ForestSAT Conference
07:30 Departure to the congress venue
08:00 Registration
08:30 - 18:30 Participation at ForestSAT conference
18:30 - 20:00 Transfer back to the Hotel
DAY FOUR, 17 November 2016
Fieldtrip to the National Park "La Campana"
Minutes: Jhenny Salgado and Kevin Jair Hernández Bado
08:00 - 18:00 Field trip to La Campana National Park
DAY FIVE; 18 November 2016
Workshop evaluation and closing
Supervisor: Lutz Fehrmann
09:00 - 11:00 Presentation of Minutes during ForestSAT
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30 Evaluation plenary – without organizers Introduction - Lutz Fehrmann
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Workshop Wrap-up - Lutz Fehrmann
15:00 - 15:30 Introduction to DAAD Office in Chile - Arpe Caspary
15:30 - 16:00 Workshop closing, Christoph Kleinn
16:00 - 18:30 Group work sessions
Workshop venue & accommodation
Accommodation for most workshop participants is arranged in the Crowne Plaza Hotel:
Sc (Andina) Inc. Av. Libertador Bdo O'Higgins 136, Santiago - 6513491, Chile
Phone: +56 (0) 2 26381042
Fax: +56 (0) 2 26330960
The venue of our own workshop will be at the office of the Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia (UACh) in Santiago de Chile. The UACh office in Santiago is dedicated among other activities, to represent the university and authorities in different events, meetings and ceremonies in Santiago. In addition, it represents Rectory, Faculties and Institutes. Through that, the presence of UACh is reinforced in the Metropolitan region. Undergraduate and graduate careers are present as well; and several academic and cultural events are managed in different fields for the community.
The venue of the ForestSAT conference that we will visit at one day is on the Campus Huechuraba of the Universidad Mayor (UACh)
Camino La Pirámide 5750,
Huechuraba , Santiago de Chile
Media
Reports on our workshop were published on the website of the Universidad Austral de Chile and the homepage of the Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Recursos Naturales
