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model allows taking into account interactions
between the processes and making assessment of
REDD policies applying similar method in all
countries. The model is designed to use data
available at different scales (from local, grid cell
specific to global). One of the important
requirements to the data composition is consistency
of all constituents. The approach proves its validity
by providing plausible results compared against
independent estimates and tested by national experts
in EU countries. The model results are widely used
for integrated assessment purposes or in other
applications.
Further research: To improve performance of the
model in tropics we plan to introduce initialisation
of deforestation in cells using remote sensing data
and add a road network that is shown to be an
important deforestation driver (Kirby et al, 2006).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We are grateful to Michael Obersteiner and Hannes
Bottcher for useful ideas on model development and
comments on the model performance, and Andriy
Bun for helping with model code.
The model development was supported by the
following EC funded projects: CC-TAME,
ClimateCost, BEE Project, GEO-BENE, INSEA.
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