Module 3 Overview

Biomass Change with OBIWAN

The GEDI mission provides predictions of biomass at the 25m footprint level and for 1 km grid cells. This training provides theoretical background for those products and how GEDI’s statistics, measurements, and models are used in OBIWAN for customized carbon reporting. The OBIWAN API is also demonstrated through a hands-on activity to demonstrate how easy it is to incorporate OBIWAN estimation in your organization’s carbon reporting/documentation system.

The Target Audience

Participants in carbon markets, inventory specialists, forest managers, and application developers.

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand and use GEDI standard biomass products at the footprint and 1km scale.
  2. Access the open-source OBIWAN API to generate and serve estimates of biomass change for areas of interest.
  3. Understand how OBIWAN can be used to create baseline scenarios needed to identify additionality of forest carbon projects.

Partners, Contributors, and Acknowledgements

  • Sean Healey, Zhiqiang Yang, USDA Forest Service, sean.healey@usda.gov
  • Lucas Johnson, Oregon State University, johnsl27@oregonstate.edu
  • Development of the OBIWAN API has relied upon support from the NASA SERVIR Program, the NASA GEDI Science Team, and Google LLC.

Module Topics Overview

  • GEDI mission biomass estimation: theory and products
  • OBIWAN: estimating biomass change with GEDI and Landsat time series
  • Customize OBIWAN through its API

Pre-requisites

  • Modules 1 and 2 of this training

Table of contents

Curtosy of EarthRISE at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and the Lab for Applied Scienecs at the University of Alabama in Huntsville