Collect Earth

Multi-purpose land monitoring

Alfonso Sanchez-Paus

Lead developer

What is Collect Earth?

A demo is worth a thousand words

• Free and Open Source tool ( downloadable from

www.openfori.org )

• Very High Resolution multi-temporal images from Google Earth and Bing Maps

• Landsat 7 and 8 datasets from Google Earth Engine

• Data Analysis through Saiku

History

• Open Foris Initiative

– Collect, Collect Mobile and Collect Earth

– Calc

– Geospatial Toolkit

• BMU-ICI Project ( Capacity Building for REDD+ NFMS )

– 18 Countries + more UN-REDD countries such as PNG and Mongolia

Use Cases

• Support multi-phase National Forest Inventories

• LULUCF assessments

• Monitoring agricultural land and urban areas

• Validation of existing maps

• Collection of spatially explicit socio-economic data

• Quantifying deforestation, reforestation and desertification

What do you want to analyze?

QGIS

sampling grid

Collect Earth

Fusion Table

CSV export

Data

processing

HTML data

entry form

Google Earth

interface

Data

analysis

Collect Earth

Supplementary

high-res imagery

Supplementary

high-res

imagery

Single-user

database

Multi-user

database

Image analysis

Collect Earth

KMZ

HTTP

Balloon – Network Link

SQLite

DB

Data export

Open Foris Collect Earth

UNFCCC reporting

• Collection of activity data – Follow IPCC guidelines:

• IPCC Vol.4 Chapter 3 (Consistent Representation of Lands) : Approach 3 Spatially-Explicit Land-Use Conversion Data – Sampling approach (same as Annex II countries) – Land use, land use conversion (at least from 2000) and

Land Use Subdivision

– Data directly importable to GHG inventory tools (ALU Tool/IPCC software) • Integrating other data sources (Climate zone and soil

data)

Visual Interpretation applied to

Agriculture

• Plantations : e.g. Palm Oil plantations and Subsistence Agriculture in PNG.

> 27000 plots assessed -> data can be included

in GHG inventory

• Eurostat LUCAS

– N²O emissions for CAPRI

– Linear elements

Google Earth Engine

Support for NDVI, NDWI and EVI intra-year / inter-year analysis

Feature for crop identification

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For Office Collect desktop is a flexible tool

for office or field camp based

inventory data entry.

Customizable validation rules

minimize data entry erros and

feedback reports help to identify

potential problems.

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For Field Collect Mobile is an easy to use

Collect client for mobile Android

devices. Entering the data

already in the field can

significanlty improve the quality

of the data and reduce time

needed for data cleansing.

For Fast Delivery Colleyc Earth is an interative

image interpretation tool which

users Google Earth interface.

Collect Earth allows collection of

land cover and land use

information with the fastest

possible way and with minimum

GIS experience.

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Easy Import Calc is a fully customizable tool for

facilitated data analysis. You can

import data directly from Collect,

import external equations and build

complex processing chains

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For experts and end-

users Calc is designed for

both, experts and end users.

Whereas the experts can build

the processing chains, end

users can just hit play and

repreat the calculation

processes.

Reporting Calc results can be presented

using Saiku Analytics. This

allows easy reporting and

presenting the results in both,

tabular and graphical form.

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