OEMC project use case: Biodiversity monitoring and reporting tools for IDH
- Creators
- OpenGeoHub Foundation
Description
This use case will build tools for monitoring and reporting on biodiversity trends, aiming to support impact investment in sustainable agriculture and forestry. The tools will provide a global overview of biodiversity trends at any site for the last 25+ years, primarily based on Earth Observation (EO) data, and can be used in combination with local data to refine and improve estimates. The goal is to deliver high spatial resolution data that can be used to track biodiversity impacts and changes for specific farms or areas where investments are being made. The data will be based on a combination of indicators such as FPAR (Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation) monthly, fire disturbance monthly, canopy height, vegetation diversity, bare earth and surface water percentage.
Stakeholder needs:
- Analysis ready EO data products for biodiversity indicators, including FPAR (monthly), fire disturbance (monthly), canopy height, vegetation diversity, bare earth percentage, and surface water percentage.
- Monitoring tools that provide reliable, global, and temporal coverage of biodiversity trends spanning over 25+ years.,
Planned implementation:
- producing time-series of analysis-ready bimonthly / monthly biophysical indices in EU scale to assess historical deforestation and land use across tropical areas,
- design and implement user-friendly tools to monitor and report biodiversity trends at high spatial resolution,
- create systems to independently validate claims of positive biodiversity impacts for greater accountability in impact investment