On 8/1/23, the SERVIR Science Coordination Office’s Emil Cherrington and Christine Evans provided a virtual training on greenhouse gas emission estimation as a pre-event to the AmeriGEO Week 2023 activity. In the context of NASA’s declaring 2023 to be “A Year of Open Science” (www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/year-of-open-science), the training focused on the use of openly available Earth observation datasets for estimating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from land cover change. Participants were introduced to above ground biomass, land cover, and land cover change datasets openly available in the Google Earth Engine platform, and how these could be integrated to estimate GHG emissions in accordance with technical guidance provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In addition to addressing capacity development needs identified by the AmeriGEO regional initiative (www.amerigeo.org), the training was done in the scope of the ongoing SERVIR CArbon Pilot (S-CAP) activity, which was also recently highlighted by the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s Focus research magazine, at www.uah.edu/focus-magazine. Some twenty participants from across the Americas participated in the webinar.
