Workshop Wetland Vision inception

phase and User needs assessment

Pilot for Global Wetland Monitoring System for spatial planning and sustainable supply chains

Bogor, 19-20th May 2014

Workshop Agenda User Needs Assessment

Afternoon session 19th May
Introduction WetlandVision objectives
Introduction WIIP activities mapping wetlands
Introduction of work and objectives BIG
CIFOR introduction of ongoing work and objectives
WU-SarVision introduction new satellite techniques
Presentation examples of potential operational use scenarios
Break-out sessions
Break-out session feedback and workshop closure
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Introduction Wetland Vision

Funded by Netherlands programme Partners for Water

running until december 2015 (2 years).

Private Public Partnership led by Sarvision in collaboration

with Wetlands International HQ and Wetlands International
Indonesia, Nelen & Schuurmans and Wageningen University.

WetlandVision aims to improve informed spatial

planning and decision making by governments and
private sector for enhancing sustainability of key agro-food
commodity production chains, and climate mitigation and
adaptation in relation to flooding risks and GHG emissions.

Introduction Wetland Vision

Project thematic focus:

Wetlands (swamps)
Wetland forests (peat swamp forest, mangrove)
Flooding events

Spatial planning and disaster risk (government)

Supply chains (private sector):

Palm oil
Pulp and paper
Timber
Carbon credits, shrimp aquaculture

Pilot area(s):

Borneo and Sumatra (East Java?)

Introduction Wetland Vision

New satellite techniques are available providing big datasets of free-low

cost imagery for improved monitoring of wetlands and wetland forests
-> Combine field information, a software platform for large-scale nearreal-time satellite image processing and a web portal to help:

Demonstrate and validate of an online satellite-based geo-information system

providing accurate and frequent near-real time geo-information on tropical
wetlands and wetland forest extent, degradation status, carbon stocks, and
changes thereof in time.
Increase the awareness on the status of wetlands and opportunities for reduced
loss and increased profits.
Build a strong relationship with government and leading private sector
companies.

WetlandVision planning

First establish map specifications based on user needs.

For which area to create demonstration map products?
When to carry out field work for ground truth (calibration,
validation)?
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Introduction Wetland Vision

Today's afternoon workshop: policy and decision

making

Who is already doing wetland and wetland forest mapping

and where?
Exchange ideas, establish potential for cooperation
Get feedback:
What map types are possible? What priority?
What stakeholders (can) have an impact on the status of
wetlands and wetland forests and how?
If available, what will stakeholders do with maps? What
use cases?
7 How do we define what are useful maps?

Introduction Wetland Vision

What are the objective of wetland maps? Maps can

help:
Positive approach
Improve transparency of sector to help strengthen brand:
show that fires are not in plantations
Planning: increase profit by avoiding planting in
flooded/wetland areas; flood risk survey for land
development
Marketing: show no primary forest is cleared by pulp sector
Affordable high carbon stock assessment
Comply with shrimp certification requirements

Introduction Wetland Vision

Practical applications of maps can be:

Reduction of economic loss from flooding by showing
which areas to avoid for plantation expansion as the risk of
replanting is too high.
Reduction of economic loss from damage to brand
reputation by providing independent evidence that
commodities are produced sustainably.
Maintenance of market access by demonstrating
compliance international and national directive.

Introduction Wetland Vision

Practical applications can be:

Increase of profits by identification of lost production
areas for rehabilitation and high yield areas.
Increase of profits from co-benefits: availability of accurate
map information is a precondition for the quantification of
carbon credits from conservation and rehabilitation.
What else???

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Thank you!

Break-out objectives
New maps and derived information are intended for example to:
provide new capabilities,
to enhance performance,
make the execution of a task more efficient, etc.
To derive user requirements, an understanding is needed of:
operational scenarios the users are facing,
what the problems are,
what opportunities exist for improving the situation.
What existing operational processes could be improved by new maps?
What are existing problems (or shortcomings) and opportunities for
improvement in the operational process?
E.g. high carbon stock requires too much field masurements..
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Break-out questions
User needs and map specification workshop lead by WI:
1. which users exist and what are their roles and responsibilities ?
2. what are the problems faced by each user and their information needs
3. for what purpose are maps used, what map functions and performance is
required by users, which have priority (Mandatory must have / Important / Nice
to have)
4. what are conditions (thematic content, spatial resolution, update frequency
etc.), and limitations (field data needed, large area covered, etc.)
5. how to define criteria to assess whether map technique is useful?

Methodology:
Workshop, holding interviews, and using an online questionnaire,
13 Letting users review and provide feedback on and validate the User Requirements.