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FONE - Technical Assistance to institutions in charge of REDD+ process

Start
September 2012
End
November 2012
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Countries

Madagascar

Fields

Biodiversity Climate Forest REDD+ Remote sensing

Partners

ONE - National Office of the Environment (Madagascar) · DGF - The Directorate General of Forests (Madagascar)

Main goals

Management training to the National Office of the Environment and the General Directorate for Forestry of Madagascar

Specific objectives

  • Measurement of carbon stocks of aerial biomass and soil via dendrometric inventories (measuring diameter and height of trees in the Vertex, entered with the OpenDataToolkit application), and pedological inventories (description and measurement of soil density, soil sampling)
  • Historical analysis of deforestation by remote sensing via a theory session (remote sensing methods and REDD + requirements) and a practical session (implementation of the methodology developed under the PHCF)

Related people

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Project Manager / France

Clovis Grinand

PhD in Functional Ecology and Agronomic Sciences (SupAgro, IRD and CIRAD) and specialized in Localized Information Systems for Spatial Planning (AgroParisTech), he is an expert in land use change monitoring using remote sensing, digital soil mapping and spatial modeling applied to forestry, agronomy and landscape ecology. He is the author of numerous international scientific publications.

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