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10/7/2005 Olga N. Krankina, OSU

Northern Eurasia Regional Information Network

Olga N. Krankina Department of Forest ScienceOregon State University

Contributors: Ivan Csiszar (UMd, USA) and Evgeny Loupian, Sergey Bartalev(SRI, Russia)


MotivationNorthern Eurasia (NE) is the largest landmass, the largest terrestrial reservoir of organic carbonActive land use changes and socio-economic transformationsNorthern Eurasia is believed to play a critical role in global change; research interest is high (e.g. NEESPI)NE remains a major source of uncertainly in global estimates of

Area of forest, peatland, and other land cover typesCarbon pools and fluxWater discharge, etc.

Opportunities for researchData resourcesLocal experience and expertiseInfrastructure

Challenging environmentAccess to data resources, research expertise and infrastructure

Need for coordination among project and synthesis of results


The Roots

Global Observation of Forest Cover (GOFC) Boreal Forest Workshop (Novosibirsk, Russia, August 2000)Regional workshop for Western Russia-Fennoscandiaregion (St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2001)Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI) workshops (Suzdal’, April 2003; Yalta, September 2003) “Observational Data in Support of NEESPI”, St. Petersburg, Feb. 23-26, 2004


NERIN emerged as a network of people, institutions, projectsThe primary goal of NERIN is to promote and coordinate the production and provision of Earth System observations for a wide range of user communities in Northern Eurasia and to the global Earth Science community.Under development is the network of points of contact and virtual community (http://www.fao.org/gtos/gofc-gold/index.html)


Land Cover Implementation Team

NERIN - Land CoverCoordinator - Krankina

GOFC-GOLD STB

Fire Implementation Team

NERIN-FireCoordinator - Csiszar

NEESPI International Project Office

Points of Contact

Remote Sensing of Land Cover - GershenzonRemote Sensing of Fires - Loupian

In-situ:Ukraine – Zalogin

Baltics, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, China, Mongolia, Far East, Western Russia – TBD.

Western Siberia - GordovCentral and Eastern Siberia - Kharuk

Proposed NERIN Structure

Land Cover

Fire


NERIN-Fire Overview• Forest fire monitoring system was developed for

Russia; can be extended to other countries of the Northern Eurasia region

• Network includes research institutions, data providers, and users

• Ongoing projects• Forest fire monitoring project funded by Russian Federal

Forest Agency

• NASA funded project “Biomass Burning Observations in Northern Eurasia” project (NNG04GC82G)


Current national operational network in Russia

NOAA

NOAA

TERRA, AQUA

NOAATERRA, AQUA

NOAATERRA, AQUA

NOAANOAA

TERRA, AQUA

Узлы информационной системы

Основные потоки данных между узлами

МОСКВА, ИКИ РАН

Сервер: основной, операционный центрАдрес: www.nffc.aviales.ruNOAA: локальные данныеTerra, Aqua: данные НИЦ «Планета»

Новосибирск, ЗС РЦПОД

Сервер: основнойАдрес: 212.17.0.65NOAA: локальные данныеTerra, Aqua: локальные данные

Пушкино, Центральная АБ

Сервер: основнойАдрес: www.pushkino.aviales.ruNOAA: локальные данныеTerra, Aqua: данные НИЦ «Планета»

Красноярск, ИЛ СО РАН

Сервер: основнойАдрес: wfw.krasn.ruNOAA: локальные данныеTerra, Aqua: локальные данные

Иркутск, Иркутская АБ

Сервер: дополнительныйАдрес: www.irkutsk.aviales.ruNOAA: локальные данныеTerra, Aqua: данные Новосибирск,

Красноярск Хабаровск, Хабаровская АБ

Сервер: основнойАдрес: 212.19.17.217NOAA: данные ДВ РЦПОДTerra, Aqua: данные ДВ РЦПОД

Хабаровск, ДВ РЦПОД

Сервер: дополнительныйАдрес: dvrcpod.kht.ruNOAA: локальные данныеTerra, Aqua: локальные данные


Features of forest fire monitoring system for Russia

• Access to current and historical data • Data on active fires detected with AVHRR and MODIS• Data on ground and aircraft observation of large fires

(>200 ha)• Long-term archive of data/products operationally

derived from AVHRR and MODIS observation data• System of informational servers to provide

access to the data http://www.nffc.aviales.ru


Operational web-based distribution system

http://www.nffc.aviales.ru


Network DevelopmentsE. Loupian and A. Sukhinin on the GOFC/GOLD Fire Implementation Team (data systems and new sensors)Several products registered in NERIN metadata baseGOFC/GOLD-Fire Regional workshop: second day of Russian Remote Sensing Symposium (November 16-18 2004) Contacts established with additional countries in Northern Eurasia (Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus)Russia ratified the Kyoto protocol• satellite-based fire products gaining official status• formal national satellite-based fire monitoring network in Russia

• opportunity, but also a challengeConclusion: Network is mature – regional champions are taking over initiative


GOFC/GOLD Regional Fire WorkshopMoscow, 17 November 2004


TerraNorte Information SystemNELDA (Northern Eurasia Landcover Dynamics Analysis)METADATA (data inventory)

NERIN – Land Cover Overview


The goal: to provide for the wide user community access to satellite-based data and products on dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems in Northern EurasiaFunded by Russian Fund of Fundamental ResearchData on burnt area during 2000-2003 are already available through the TerraNorte web-site (http://tem.iki.rssi.ru)

TerraNorte Information System


NELDA (Northern Eurasia Landcover Dynamics Analysis)

Large-scale land cover change project with multiple test sites distributed across the temperate and boreal regionsTest sites will be used to:• validate global land cover products • characterize and monitor the distribution and change of major types

landcover using Landsat, ASTER, and IRS imagery and ground-based measurements,

• develop methods for the future continental-scale monitoring with moderate- to coarse- resolution sensors.

Focus on types of land cover and land use change that are significant in different parts of Northern EurasiaEstablish a base for other studies of land-cover within the scope of GOFC-GOLD, and other interested programs such as NEESPITeam NELDA is being established


West SiberianBasin

CentralSiberia Russian Far

East / NE ChinaEuropean Russia

NELDA study regions and sites. Dark gray shading indicates extent of forest and woodland cover (DeFrieset al., 1998).


Example of NELDA site


Each stack of images included

3-4 dates (or layers)


The role of peatlands in C stores: boreal zone

Soils31%

Peat61%

Plant biomass

8%

Global peat stores are estimated at 400-500PgC.Estimates of peat stores in Russia 45-138 PgC


R2=0.87 R2=0.92


Peatland area in the St. Petersburg region

MODIS IGBP land cover product identifies only 0.2% of the land area as permanent wetlandsOur models estimate about 9 % in undisturbed peatlands and 1 % in mined peatlands

10/7/2005 Olga N. Krankina, OSUCredit: I. Danilin, Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk


Area of burned and dead forest 25 million ha, 99% in Eastern Russia


Bringing Scientific Data to Light

Make NERIN community aware of available data resources

77 data sets

http://wwwdata.forestry.oregonstate.edu/MDEDIT/index.aspx


METADATA by Science Theme

5242

3326

2423

2020

1917

13

0 10 20 30 40 50 60

Forest Ecosystems

Land Use/Cover

Carbon Dynamics

Tundra Ecosystems

Energy/Water Cycles

Grassland/Agricultural Ecosystems

Cold Land Processes

Coastal Zone

Wetland/Other Aquatic Systems

Human Dimensions

Other Biogeochemical Cycles

Number of METADATA Entries


METADATA by Region

022

344

91313

33

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35

Caucasus

East Europe

China, Mongolia

Fennoscandia, Baltic Republics

Kazakhstan, Central Asia

Far East

Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus

East Siberia

Europe-Urals

All

Number of METADATA Entries


Regional GOFC-GOLD workshop

OBSERVATIONS OF LAND COVER AND NEEDS OF RESEARCH PROJECTS IN THE BOREAL ZONE OF NORTHERN EURASIA

June 18 - 19, 2005, Saint Petersburg, RussiaPre-symposium workshop at the 31st International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment “GLOBAL MONITORING FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND SECURITY”


Future network priorities

Thematic • Harmonize and coordinate activities between fire and land cover

components• Strengthen product validation based on consensus protocols

Organizational• Facilitate involvement of additional stakeholders in Russia and in

neighboring countries• Broaden involvement of additional external participants and projects

(NASA, EU etc.)Funding priorities• Network projects• Synthesis and coordination among projects• Workshops• Training/Capacity building


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