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SavBAT2 User Manual - Department of the Environment

1. 2 2 2 Reporting year and start date of the late dry season The timing of the earliest available reporting year in SavBAT2 may be inconsistent with user obligations under the methodology and it is the user s responsibility to select the appropriate reporting year SavBAT2 allows only valid combinations of baseline and reporting years The reporting year LDS start dates will default to 1 Aug and be able to be set to 1 Jul 1 Aug or 1 Sep Changing the LDS start date from the default is inconsistent with requirements of the methodology 2 2 3 Fuel usage details Fuel use may have zero one or more rows with a row for each fuel type used on the area uploaded into SavBAT2 during the reporting period Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 16 1 The fuel type name must match that specified in Schedule 1 of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting NGER Measurement Determination in force at the time the offsets report is submitted or was required to be submitted to the Clean Energy Regulator whichever is earlier This extends to the energy content factors and emission factors used to calculate the emissions from fuel use All versions of the NGER Measurement Determination can be accessed at http Avww comlaw qov au 2 Ifa fuel usage row is entered i e if any field in a row has data entered all three fields of the row must be completed e tis recommended that the user records the fue
2. Output Dataset or Feature Class INPUT Output Coordinate System Geographic Transformation optional OCS_GRS_1980 Scale 1 16 500 000 6 Classify the vegetation fuel type data according to the SavBAT2 vegetation fuel type pixel values a Add an integer field e g SavBAT2_Fuel_Type to the shapefile attribute table and use the Field Calculator right mouse click on heading of the new field to attribute the new field with values 0 1 2 3 4 11 12 13 14 15 To avoid common errors ensure that before conversion e Only values 0 1 2 3 4 are used in the high rainfall zone e Only values 0 11 12 13 14 15 are used in the low rainfall zone e Ineligible vegetation types in the project area are set to zero not to 255 256 or any other value prior to conversion e The vegetation fuel type data is clipped to the project boundary e The vegetation fuel type data is clipped to the rainfall map s Note SavBAT2 has buffered the rainfall region boundaries by one pixel 250 m to allow for the raster representation of vector mapping however if a pixel extends over the buffered rainfall zone boundary it will be rejected by SavBAT2 It is therefore worthwhile zooming in to the project boundary overlaying the buffered rainfall zone boundaries and checking the mapping extent 7 Convert the feature dataset to a raster using the Feature to Raster tool Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual
3. Page 32 Feature to Raster Comers features to a raster dataset a Field must be the new integer field e g SavBAT2_ Fuel_Type b Output Raster specify the file extension tif and include this extension in the file name c Cell size is 250 0 e SavBAT2 requires a 250 m resolution Grid size can be changed using the Resample tool under Raster Processing e Note adding the 0 to 250 i e 250 0 helps minimise problems that may occur during this conversion process e If the user is having a problem with the pixel size they may find it helpful to install the open source GDAL utility program The user can use the GDALINFO command to check and correct rasters 8 After the Feature to Raster conversion process is complete add the raster layer to the data frame if it is not set to do so automatically 9 Double click on the raster dataset Under Properties gt symbology classify as Unique Values a If asked do you want to create unique values gt yes b Check the raster values are the correct integer values i e 0 1 2 15 only In the Raster Information the NoData Value will most likely be blank it doesn t matter if it is or not The user will have to undertake a further conversion of the file to make the NoData values 255 see step 9 c Check the Raster Information Properties gt Source gt Raster Information e Number of bands 1 e Cellsize x y 250 25
4. high rainfall zone above 1000 mm average annual rainfall The methodology treats the two rainfall zones separately but combines the abatement estimates from each Where a project spans both zones the emissions and or abatement are summed Broadly the methodological approaches for the two rainfall zones differ in the following ways e High rainfall four vegetation fuel types are unique to this zone the baseline period is 10 years e Low rainfall five vegetation fuel types are unique to this zone the baseline period is 15 years With the exception of the length of the baseline period the calculation processes are the same for both rainfall zones However estimates from a project or potential project in the high rainfall zone calculated as per in the methodology will be materially different from those calculated as per the earlier methodology due to the following changes 1 Fine fuel accumulation values is disaggregated into early dry season EDS and late dry season LDS Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 5 2 Fire patchiness and burning efficiency is disaggregated into high and low rainfall values 3 Carbon content and nitrogen to carbon ratios is disaggregated by vegetation fuel type and fuel size class Otherwise SavBAT2 calculates the abatement using the same logic and reference table values as SavBAT including the same geospatial processes and calculations SavBAT2 permits calculations for proje
5. 15 SHH Shrubland Heath with Hummock grass Current screen nenian extent shown 5 Next button disabled on MiniMap due to invalid pixels Lat 14 00 42 S Long 133 52 55 E Albers Easting 205795 Albers Northing 1482308 The user will be prompted to confirm that the vegetation fuel type map is correct by pressing the Next button before proceeding if the following criteria are met e all vegetation fuel type pixels are attributed correctly vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF only e all eligible vegetation fuel type pixels are located wholly within the relevant rainfall zone vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF only If these criteria are not met then SavBAT2 will not be able to complete calculations until spatial data is correctly attributed and the Next button will be disabled 3 2 Abatement estimate Once the user has progressed to the project details page and entered all required data the Calculate button will become active The output from the abatement estimate calculation is an onscreen display of estimated emissions in tonnes of COz e and its estimated dollar value Guidance on how to interpret the results is given in Results Abatement estimate page 24 Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 21 N IA Fl SavBAT2 Savanna Burning Abatement Tool High and Low Rainfall Australian Government erone ET ERS LE J Pee Daai Yoman Abatement Estimation produced on 30 10 2014
6. Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 37 SavBAT2 page Issue Solution Upload map Error Message Projection must be lt xxx gt The uploaded GeoTIFF file is not in the supported projection where lt xxx gt would be replaced by words within this list EPSG 3577 GDA 94 Albers Externally to SavBAT2 modify the file to comply with the requirements in Vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF page 14 Upload map Error Message Grid size m The uploaded GeoTIFF file is not set to the must be 250 x 250 required grid size Externally to SavBAT2 modify the file to comply with the requirements in Vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF page 14 More help is available in Appendix A page 29 Upload map Error Message mage The uploaded GeoTIFF file is not in the Format must be a single band required format Externally to SavBAT2 modify GeoTIFF the file to comply with the requirements in Vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF page 14 More help is available in Appendix A page 29 Upload map Error Message mage data The uploaded GeoTIFF file is not in the type cannot be lt xxx gt It must be a 8 bit palette GeoTIFF required format where lt xxx gt is replaced with the image type SavBAT2 determined Externally to SavBAT2 modify the file to comply with the requirements in Vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF page 14 More help is available in Appendix A page 29 Upload map Error Message Image data type canno
7. Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 10 scenario Using this approach SavBAT2 creates an equivalent of Table iii for each of the 66 combinations of EDS and LDS percent area burnt in the results matrix and uses this table to calculate potential abatement for each scenario i e combination of EDS and LDS percentage area burnt The following year 2017 the proponent creates a SavBAT2 offsets report for 2016 SavBAT2 uses the same 2015 YSLB data as in the previous year s estimate however the seasonal fire maps for 2015 have now been produced SavBAT2 overlays the 2015 YSLB data with the vegetation fuel type map and the fire season map and determines the area burnt by YSLB Table iv below In this hypothetical example 33 000 ha burnt as it did in the abatement estimate example with 11 000 ha in the EDS and 22 000 ha in the LDS However the fire activity was proportionally higher in the hOFM than assumed in the earlier SavBAT2 estimate Thus even though the total area burnt in each season was the same the abatement calculation in the report will differ from the earlier abatement estimate because information is now available on where the activity has occurred and the associated vegetation fuel type influences emissions calculations Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 11 Table i Vegetation fuel type map overlaid by most recent YSLB data Used for abatement estimate Vegetation SLB
8. Total ee e a E E E E Season eC ORL E COXO 100 000 Unknown horm BRU PA ET 500 MER 10 000 Total 21 000 32 000 23 000 10 500 10 500 13 000 110 000 Table ii area burnt in each season for a hypothetical cell in the abatement estimate Used for abatement estimate EDS EU LDS 20 Table iii area burnt assigned to each season for a hypothetical cell in the abatement Used for abatement estimate Vegetation Se Total aon fueltypee a 2 3 4 5 gt so hSHH AC E Pi E Pe E K hoM hSHH hOM LDS 200 Table iv Area burnt by YSLB i e Table 14 from SavBAT 2 report Used for abatement estimate MANTEM Vegetation fuel type SHH 1 200 1 200 LDS hom eneen 3 000 500 500 3 000 5100 8400 8100 2550 2 550 6 300 33 000 1 4 Browser support SavBAT2 is designed for a minimum support screen resolution of 1024 x 768 and for use with recent versions of the major browsers Internet Explorer 9 Chrome FireFox 14 and Safari 2 BEFORE YOU START DATA REQUIRED FROM THE USER If there is more than one CEA then the user must externally from SavBAT2 separate the project area into two or more areas e g separate CEAs are required for areas with a different end year for the baseline period The user should then upload and process each vegetation fuel type dataset along with the associated fuel use separately Running SavBAT2 multiple times for
9. a single project once with each CEA dataset will give users Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 12 multiple separate reports which will need to be manually combined by the project proponent in any offsets report submitted to the Clean Energy Regulator Some data required to use SavBAT2 is common to both the SavBAT2 offsets report and the abatement estimate and some data is unique to each function 2 1 Data common to SavBAT2 offsets reports and abatement estimates The data common to both the SavBAT2 offsets report and abatement estimates are spatial data as specified below baseline periods the start date of the LDS and the Global Warming Potentials for methane and nitrous oxide 2 1 1 Spatial Data The spatial data required by SavBAT2 for the project or potential project can be either a A User created raster format vegetation fuel type map To submit an offsets report to the Clean Energy Regulator this map must be validated in accordance with the methodology This single dataset is termed the vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF or B Project boundary file For option A SavBAT2 cannot assess whether the uploaded vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF has been validated in accordance with the methodology Map validation occurs independently of use of SavBAT2 For option B SavBAT2 creates a vegetation fuel type dataset from the vegetation fuel type base map This vegetation fuel type base map covers the entire high and low
10. for standard values Red User has added a row but not populated any cells so all cells in row coloured Calculate button disabled due to invalid values and or unpopulated cells White Cell requires value but user has not yet tabbed through or clicked on the cell 3 1 SavBAT2 mapping functionality SavBAT2 has a simple map page which displays the uploaded or clipped vegetation data to the user highlighting errors such as invalid pixel values i e invalid vegetation fuel types or pixels extending beyond their valid rainfall zone It also allows the user to confirm that the numerical indexing within the input layer matches the SavBAT2 specifications e g the pixels that should be attributed as 2 are not attributed as 4 Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 18 A user who imports a vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF or uploads a project boundary file that conforms to the supported format will be presented with a non editable image of the vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF The image will have pan and zoom functionality and display the following Spatial data file name All the eligible vegetation fuel type pixels in the spatial data and colour codes for these pixels with a colour that is unique to each eligible vegetation type The user can turn the vegetation fuel type layer on and off to assist with error diagnosis This layer is named the Vegetation raster Key to the codes on the page Wh
11. or TIFF Projection GDA_1994 Albers EPSG 3577 Upload Format Single TIF file no ancillary files required or allowed Grid Size Resolution 250 m x 250 m Pixel values high rainfall zone Pixels must have the following values depicting the relevant vegetation fuel type 0 Pixel is within the project area but contains an ineligible vegetation fuel type 1 hOFM Open Forest Mixed 2 AWMi Woodland Mixed 3 hWHu Woodland Hummock 4 hSHH Shrubland Hummock 255 NODATA i e pixel is outside the project area Pixel values low rainfall zone Pixels must have the following values depicting the relevant vegetation fuel type 0 Pixel is within the project area but contains an ineligible vegetation fuel type 11 IWHu Woodland with Hummock grass 12 IWMi Woodland with Mixed grass 13 IWTu Woodland with Tussock grass 14 IOWM Open Woodland with Mixed grass 15 ISHH Shrubland Heath with Hummock grass 255 NODATA i e pixel is outside the project area For the operation of eligible projects the methodology requires that a map of vegetation fuel type must a Be in raster format with a maximum pixel size of 250 m x 250 m b Assign a vegetation fuel type to each pixel that represents a part of the project area according to the vegetation fuel type specified in Schedule 1 The high and low rainfall zones have vegetation fuels types unique to each zone and SavBAT2 checks that each zone is correct
12. project boundary ZIP file is not in the supported format projection and structure Externally to SavBAT2 modify the file to comply with the requirements in Project boundary file page 15 Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 38 SavBAT2 page Issue Solution Confirm map Error Next button not functioning This will generally indicate that the uploaded GeoTIFF or map boundary files were not valid There are numerous possible reasons for this see error message on the Confirm Map page for reason Confirm Map Error Message Invalid pixel For uploaded GeoTIFF pixels are attributed value is found Value must be incorrectly where lt xxx gt would be the list of in list lt xxx gt valid pixel values for the rainfall region s covered by the dataset eg 0 1 2 3 4 255 These invalid pixels are colour coded in red on the Confirm Map page Use the SavBAT2 mapping functionality to identify the invalid pixel and externally to SavBAT2 modify the file to comply with the requirements in Vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF page 14 Confirm Map Information Message Ai Not an error information only pixels in the vegetation raster are valid The raster is entirely within the Low rainfall region Confirm Map Information Message A Not an error information only pixels in the vegetation raster are valid The raster is entirely within the High rainfall region Con
13. see step 5 above Check the properties after re projection to ensure the process has worked 3 If needing to reclassify numerical pixel values of the vegetation layer to those required by SavBAT see first table of Appendix A for pixel values and corresponding vegetation types use the Reclassify or Reclass by Table tools in ArcMap under Spatial Analyst Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 36 APPENDIX B SAVBAT ERRORS AND PROBLEM SOLVING There are three issue types in the below table these are e Error Message SavBAT provides an error message to help the user resolve the issue e Error A SavBAT2 function is not available because the user has not entered required data or entered invalid data e Information Message Not an error for information only SavBAT2 page Issue Solution Any Error Message Unable to This is due to a loss of internet connection connect to server please check your networking connection networking check your internet settings the cables to your modem etc connection Welcome Error I agree and next button This could occur if the SavBAT2 website does not functioning not load fully and correctly and could be caused by poor network connectivity It could also be caused by using an unsupported browser type or version see page 12 for information about supported browsers If you believe the problem may have been network related once yo
14. the two rainfall zones meet there is a 500 m zone where pixels may be legitimately attributed as high or low rainfall vegetation fuels types The latitude and longitude Albers easting and northing of the cursor position on the map Grid north A scale A location map MiniMap showing the relative position of the screen area to the coastline and the rainfall boundaries The user can hide or unhide the MiniMap Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 19 NAF 3taape Savanna Burning Abatement Tool High and Low Rainfall Vegetation Map Vegtype_nodata255_8 tif Invalid pixels Legend shown in red A A ful ype 1 hOFM Open Forest Mixed 2 hWMi Woodland Maxed 3 hWHu Woodland Hummock 4 hSHH Shrubland Hummock 11 IWHu Woodland with Hummock grass 12 IWMi Woodland with Moced grass 13 IWTu Woodland with Tussock grass 14 IOWM Open Woodland with Mixed grass 15 SHH Shrubisnd Heath with Hummock grass Invalid Pixels Pixel Value 1 Rainfall boundaries Value of so mA 7 a alee 14 Long 13257 07 E Albers Easting 204301 Albers Northing 1484961 selected pixel Next button disabled N A Fl SavBAT2 Savanna Burning Abatement Tool High and Low Rainfall S Australian Government 7 Welcome Y2 UploadMap 3 Confirm Map 4 Select Process 5 Project Details 6 Results Vegetation Map Vegtype_nodata255_8 tif Legend User can also double click with cursor to see i Ineigitle veg
15. 0 Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 33 o if incorrect the user used a default value or typed in the wrong value in the feature to raster conversion Format TIFF o if incorrect the user forgot to put tif on the end of the output file name Pixel Type unsigned integer o if the pixel Type is incorrect then the user has either used the wrong field in the feature to raster conversion or has calculated a wrong value in the SavBAT2_ Fuel_Type field Pixel Depth 8 Bit o if the pixel Depth are incorrect then the user has either used the wrong field in the feature to raster conversion or has calculated a wrong value in the SavBAT2_ Fuel_Type field If any of the above are incorrect delete the file make the change s suggested above and recreate the raster layer 10 There are two methods to create the final raster if one method doesn t work then try the other a Use Copy Raster tool Data management tools gt Raster gt Raster Dataset gt Copy Raster add tif extension define no data 255 Pixel type 8 bit unsigned b Right click on the raster Data gt Export Data Cell Size 250 and 250 NoData as 255 Format TIFF The user can use LZW compression if they wish Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 34 amp layers 3 E D Projects Carbon FishRiver Go fE Copy m2 X_ Remove m3 Open Attribute Table
16. 09 50 49 using base vegetation map clipped by project boundary rainfall_both_gda94 zip 3 Expart to CSV Vegetation Fu i Type by Area Ha for Project R jion Display wTonnesofCO2 e Gross Value Price per tonne S of project area bu Rainfall egetation Area Ha 0 10 20 30 40 80 90 100 ree i 5 High hOFM 200 00 z 0 26 126 87 22 264 29 18 401 71 14 539 13 10 676 55 B13 97 2 951 39 19 4 773 77 8 636 35 12 498 93 v High hWMi 41 762 50 a 10 19 886 44 16 023 86 12 161 29 8 298 71 4 436 12 55 3 289 03 61 11 014 19 14 876 77 e High hWHu 0 00 o 20 13 646 02 9 783 44 5 920 86 2 058 28 1 804 30 6 88 9 529 46 17 254 62 hSHH 3 275 00 al r 7 5 3 T z 30 7 405 59 3 543 01 319 57 4 182 15 8 044 72 230 15 769 88 IWHu 0 00 E 40 1 165 17 2 697 41 8 5f 99 10 422 57 14 285 15 22 010 31 IwMi 0 00 3 a2 50 5 075 26 8 937 84 1 p 42 16 663 00 20 525 58 IWTu 210 031 25 v 4 78 2 D 2 a IOWM 0 00 S 60 11 315 68 15 178 26 84 22 903 42 26 766 00 Exports all data on z ISHH 6 25 s 70 17 556 11 21 418 69 27 29 143 85 the page at present 2 80 23 796 53 27 859 11 to a CSV file lobal Warming Potential Values o 2 90 30 036 98 33 899 54 Gas GWP Value 4100 26 277 39 CH4 21 N20 310 Price per tonne is editable Warming This estimate does el use and makes assump ich are materially Start of the LDS for project region f lects th different from what is ulti
17. 2 AUDIT Audit reports prepared by a registered category two or three greenhouse and energy auditor provide reasonable assurance that the user s project complies with the Eligible Offsets Project declaration methodology and relevant legislative requirements for the reporting period Information assessed by an auditor can include the location and area of the project evidence to support legal right to undertake the project monitoring data the details of abatement calculations and record keeping The methodology allows project proponents to undertake some required geospatial and other calculations either manually or by using SavBAT2 Use of SavBAT2 simplifies the reporting and record keeping requirements but it is not mandatory Information on auditing is available on the Clean Energy Regulator website http www cleanenergyregulator gov au The auditor may wish to confirm the authenticity of SavBAT2 and the calculations submitted by a project as described in the following section Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 26 6 1 SavBAT2 authenticity The Department of the Environment and independent assessors have undertaken quality assurance testing of SavBAT2 and found it is a true and correct translation of the methodology To support auditing of the web site and its calculations a single MD5 checksum value e g 176DADE867B804D645FF979EA01F2F0D4 will be computed for the two key files used to compute the emis
18. Australian Government Department of the Environment SavBAT2 User Manual User manual version created 9 12 2014 DISCLAIMER The material in this document is made available for general information only and on the understanding that the Commonwealth is not providing advice Before relying on any material contained in this document users should seek their own professional independent advice about the use of in SavBAT2 and any of their entitlements or obligations that relate to any Commonwealth program While reasonable efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy correctness and reliability of the material contained in this document the Department does not guarantee the completeness or accuracy of the material provided In no event shall the Department its employees officers sub contractors or third parties be liable to you for any damages including without limitation direct indirect or consequential damages including without limitation damages for loss of profits business interruption or loss of information arising out of the use or the inability to use this document or recommendations or information contained in this document whether based on warranty contract or tort including negligence and whether or not advised of the possibility of such damages 1 Department means the Commonwealth of Australia as represented by the Department of the Environment or any other Commonwealth agency or body responsible for the ad
19. BAT2 may be inconsistent with requirements of the methodology and it is the user s responsibility to select the appropriate baseline The last year of the baseline period must be the same across all files and zones for spatial data uploaded into SavBAT2 For each year of the baseline period the LDS start dates will default to 1 Aug and be able to be set to 1 Jul 1 Aug or 1 Sep Changing the LDS start date from the default is inconsistent with requirements of the methodology 2 1 3 Global Warming Potential Values Global Warming Potential GWP values for methane CH and nitrous oxide N2O are specified in Schedule 1 of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting NGER Measurement Determination in force at the time the offsets report is submitted or was required to be submitted to the Clean Energy Regulator whichever is earlier All versions of the NGER Measurement Determination can be accessed at http www comlaw gov au At the time this user manual version was published the GWP values were e CH z 21 e N2O 310 Users must manually enter the appropriate GWP which will be validated as positive numbers by SavBAT2 2 2 Data for SavBAT2 offsets reports 2 2 1 Project ID and Project Name Both these fields are required Project ID will be validated by SavBAT2 as a number of one or more characters with no spaces Project name requires a single character only and there are no restrictions on characters or spaces
20. Error Next button not functioning This is because you have not selected the desired Output type Offset report or Abatement estimate Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 39 SavBAT2 page Issue Solution Project details Error Calculate button not functioning All required fields have not been populated or have been populated incorrectly See Data for SavBAT2 offsets reports page 16 or Data for abatement estimate page 17 Project Details Error Message Unable to complete request possibly caused by intermediate proxy server timeout The intermediate proxy server i e your internet settings do not allow for a long enough calculation time between when the message is sent to SavBAT2 and the results of the calculations are sent back to you from SavBAT2 Change the server timeout settings to five or more minutes for report estimate calculations Project Details Error Message Unexpected Error INTERNAL SERVER ERROR An unexpected error with the SavBAT2 server try the process again Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 40
21. Ha Zone Class 0 10 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 5 High hOFM 200 00 0 26 126 87 22 264 29 14 539 13 10 676 55 6 813 97 2 951 39 911 19 4 773 77 8 636 35 12 498 93 g High hWMi 41 762 50 QD 40 19 886 44 16 023 86 12 8 298 71 4 436 13 573 55 3 289 03 7 151 61 11 014 19 14 876 77 e High hWHu 0 00 B 846 02 r 2 058 28 1 804 30 5 666 88 9 529 46 13 392 04 17 254 62 2g High hSHH 3 275 00 55 J 19 57 41 15 8 044 7 11 907 15 71 19 6 9 82 8 044 72 907 30 769 88 19 632 46 TER in E 40 1 165 17 2 897 41 8 559 99 10 422 57 14 285 15 18 147 73 22 010 31 tae Iwi 0 00 3 QO 50 5 075 26 8 937 84 12 800 42 16 663 00 20 525 58 24 388 16 Low IWTu 210 031 25 o 60 11 315 68 15 178 26 19 040 84 22 903 42 20 768 00 Low IOWM 0 00 S y 25 70 17 556 11 21 418 69 25 281 27 29 143 85 ii pan 2 80 23 796 53 27 659 11 31 521 69 Global Warming Potential Values g0 20 026 96 23 899 54 Gas GWP Value 36 277 39 5 3 Assess the projects target fire regime Assess the abatement impact of the projects target EDS and LDS area burnt by tracing the target LDS burnt to where it meets the target EDS burnt The layout allows the user to assess the impact of adverse outcomes such as where break even is when the user meets the LDS target but where the LDS exceeds the target use the gross value function and the price per tonne cell with a value of interest 6 SAVBAT
22. Joins and Relates A Zoom To Layer 8 Zoom To Raster Resolution Spatial Reference Visible Scale Range Data gt Data Frame Current Edit Features Raster Dataset Original Save As Layer File ee Create Layer Package ROO i Export raster data from this layer E View Its to the format of your choice You can also choose other settings such as the extent of data the spatial reference and cell size Property Bands 1 z Pixel Depth 8Bit Uncompressed Size 63 71 KB Extent left top right bottom 144991 0618 1457425 0430 82816 0618 1522900 0430 7 r Cell Size cx cy 250 250 Properties Raster Size columns rows 249 NoData as 255 Location D Projects Carbon_FishRiver 229 1_NT_FishRiver_VegMethadolog Name fish veg_250m tif Format TIFF x Ci ession Type Compression Quality 75 ompr ype NONE v ein eons 11 Check the properties and values of the file as per the Verification section below 12 Save the vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF in a folder for use as input in SavBAT2 13 Save a copy of the vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF and raw map for archiving purposes in accordance with the methodology 14 It is recommended the user does backup all related data on a separate IT network or some other off site storage facility Verification The points below are not required to make data ready fo
23. RITY EPSG 4283 OROROORO e PROJECTION Albers Equal Area o AUTHORITY EPSG 9822 e PARAMETER central_meridian 132 0 e PARAMETER latitude_of_origin 0 0 e PARAMETER standard_parallel_1 18 0 e PARAMETER false_easting 0 0 e PARAMETER false_northing 0 0 e PARAMETER standard_parallel_2 36 0 e UNIT metre 1 0 e AXIS Easting EAST e AXIS Northing NORTH e AUTHORITY EPSG 3577 3 Add the vegetation fuel type shapefile to the data frame 4 Check the mapping extent and edit or clip using the Clip function under Raster Processing a Clip using the project boundary b Clip using the appropriate rainfall region boundary high rainfall or low rainfall zones if the user s project is on the coast or adjacent to the boundary between rainfall zones c If the user s project area crosses the boundary between the two rainfall zones it is suggested that the user does not merge the maps in shapefile format but later in the process when they are both in raster format see step 6 5 Check the properties of the file ensuring the data is in GDA_1994 Albers ESPG 3577 in ArcMap GDA 1994 Australia Albers If not re project the file using the Project tool Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 31 Input Dataset or Feature Class Project Projects spatial data fom one Input Coordinate System optional coordinate system to another
24. WMi Woodland with Mixed grass 13 IWTu Woodland with Tussock grass 14 IOWM Open Woodland with Mixed grass 15 ISHH Shrubland Heath with Hummock grass 255 NODATA i e pixel is outside the project area During testing of SavBAT2 the largest area for an uploaded vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF file was 7 395 819 ha It is unknown if files with larger areas can be successfully uploaded by and calculated within SavBAT2 Appendix A describes the ESRI ArcGIS procedures for producing vegetation fuel type data in the format required for SavBAT2 As described earlier a project may span the two rainfall zones in which case each section of the user s vegetation raster must only have the correct vegetation fuel types for that rainfall zone Data showing the boundary of each zone is available from the Department s website and this data is formatted for GIS software A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file e g no ancillary files required or allowed 3 Structure refers to the use of only the allowable pixel values in the correct rainfall zone i e data attribution Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 14 The user must direct SavBAT2 to where the desired dataset is stored on their personal device using the Select File button Upload of data stored from the internet is not supported Notes on vegetation fuel tyoe GeoTIFFs 1 The methodol
25. ables are also provided in an Excel format file based on the Project Record Keeping report since it contains the superset of tables including all tables in that report but excluding the maps and their titles The tables are presented on separate spreadsheet pages for each year of the baseline the reporting year and the abatement results The file does not include any formulae 5 RESULTS ABATEMENT ESTIMATE Interpreting the results from an abatement estimate involves 1 Understanding the baseline fire characteristics 2 Analysing the abatement estimate result 3 Assessing the projects target fire regime 5 1 Understanding the baseline fire characteristics Determine the project s fire characteristics in the baseline primarily percentage area burnt in EDS and LDS By developing an understanding of these characteristics and applying their knowledge of the project area the user can begin to understand not only what the average characteristics are but also how variable fire has been during the baseline This knowledge could then be drawn upon when considering the risks imposed by natural variability on any target s a project may choose to set To explore the baseline fire characteristics the user would i Run a SavBAT2 offsets report for the project where the baseline years match those of interest ii Use the CSV outputs from the SavBAT2 offsets report a for each year of the project calculate the average area burnt for all
26. aluel activate functionality where they can populate the price per tonne cell with a value of interest to them The display then shows the dollar value for the estimated abatement when multiplied by this value Adding or changing the value in this field dynamically updates the data displayed in the table cells this is done within the browser and is very quick 3 2 1 Printing of abatement estimate SavBAT2 does not have a print function Users can print the abatement estimate by using the print screen function on their computer which may be named Prnt Scrn on some keyboards The user may need to resize and or zoom the internet application they are using so that all results and information are visible Users with Microsoft Windows operating systems can also use the Snipping Tool program in the Accessories program list to take screen shots Alternatively users can export the results to a CSV file and format the output to their own requirements 3 2 2 Export to CSV functionality In addition to the screen display of this data the Export to CSV button can be used to download a comma separated values csv file containing the data displayed on the page at the time the button is pressed i e either estimated emissions in tonnes of COz e or dollars The CSV output does not contain any formulae or functionality Saving both the tonnes of CO e and gross value requires exporting twice If the user wishes to explore the effect
27. and and overlays this with the vegetation fuel available to populate this table so vegetation fuel type type map to derive actual area burnt in the probability based inputs are used ha Table 12 reporting year Probability Does not use historical fire Probability Geospatial data is available to map data Instead the percentage burnt populate this table so probability based each fire season is equally applied across inputs are not required or used each vegetation fuel type in the area uploaded into SavBAT2 E g if a project has two vegetation fuel type A 200 ha and B 450 ha then for the cell in the estimation table with 10 burnt EDS and 20 burnt LDS we would assume for the EDS 20 ha of A was burnt and 45 ha of B for the LDS 40 ha of A and 90 ha of B Area burnt by YSLB Geospatial Uses the YSLB data for the Geospatial uses the most recent year of ha SavBAT2 Table previous year and overlays this data with YSLB data and overlays this with the 14 vegetation fuels type map to derive a table e vegetation fuels type map and of YSBL by vegetation fuel type e seasonality map for the reporting year Probability Because it cannot be known which season each vegetation fuel type E g for 2013 the calculation must use the will burn in the future the percentage 2012 YSLB data This is because fuel load burnt for each fire season is applied in the area burnt in 2013 is a product of equally across each vegetation fuel t
28. avBAT2 to where the desired dataset is stored on their personal device using the Select File button Upload of data stored from the internet is not supported 2 1 2 Baseline period and start date of the late dry season The baseline period is 10 years in the high rainfall zone and 15 years in the low rainfall zone Periods must be in whole calendar years corresponding to the requirements of the methodology and the fire maps provided by NAFI The user must nominate the years for the baseline period SavBAT2 identifies whether the user s uploaded spatial data occupies the high or low rainfall zones or both and presents appropriate baseline periods in the drop down option on the Project Details page Where the Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 15 uploaded spatial data for the project covers both rainfall zones the baselines for the two zones will end synchronously such that the high rainfall zone baseline years will be the last 10 year period of the 15 year baseline for the low rainfall zone e g for a baseline option of 1996 2010 the high rainfall zone baseline years will be 2001 2010 and the low rainfall zone baseline years will be 1996 2010 If there the project has two or more areas where the last year of the baseline period differ then the user must externally from SavBAT2 separate the project area into two or more carbon estimation areas The timing of the earliest available baseline years in Sav
29. cts or potential projects where spatial data spans the two rainfall zones SavBAT splits the data into two with separate calculations for each rainfall Zone combined to estimate the total emissions GeoTIFF files that upload successfully in SavBAT are also correctly attributed and formatted for upload into SavBAT2 1 1 Step by step use of SavBAT2 SavBAT2 is a simple web interface consisting of six web pages that users step through sequentially entering the required data and generating outputs to view or download on the last page SavBAT2 does not require any user login Users visit the website anonymously entering and uploading their data and receiving their output No data is held by the website Since SavBAT2 does not persistently store any of the user s data if the user leaves the web site or loses internet connectivity they lose any data they have entered or uploaded and must start again Users are responsible for their own document and records management The steps for using SavBAT2 are described below Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 6 The steps to using SavBAT2 Agree to the SavBAT2 Terms and Conditions Upload Map Two options Option 1 Option 2 Upload user created GeoTIFF Upload user created project boundary file See Vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF page 14 See Project boundary file page 15 Confirm Map See SavBAT2 mapping functionality page 18 Select Process Two option
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31. ent e permit the use of seasonal fire maps that are not sourced from NAFI e allow for baselines that start before the year 1992 in the lower rainfall region and 1995 in the higher rainfall region e require or allow users to create accounts or log in e provide a permanent document management or record management system for the files created by users e output spatial datasets used in the calculation along with their associated metadata These datasets are available for free download pre prepared and zipped from the NAFI website www firenorth org au gt More Tools gt SavBAT data To undertake the geospatial operations SavBAT2 will retrieve monthly fire maps developed and maintained on the North Australian Fire Information NAFI website www firenorth org au The data accessed is compliant with the requirements of the methodology for monthly and seasonal fire maps 1 3 Abatement estimate Any abatement estimate will almost certainly be materially different from what abatement is ultimately realised due to Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 8 e the use of a vegetation fuels type dataset that is not validated in accordance with the methodology and or e the use of data to inform the calculation processes for the abatement estimate differing from that data used for the SavBAT2 offsets report estimates The causes of these potential differences are explained in the next two sections 1 3 1 Differences due to u
32. ere vegetation pixels are attributed incorrectly or where a vegetation pixel is attributed as an eligible vegetation fuel type but falls partly or wholly outside of the relative rainfall zone these pixels will be colour coded red When the cursor is positioned over any pixel and the left mouse button clicked the attribution data for that pixel will be shown allowing the user to diagnose vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF errors and confirm that the attribution for non error pixels is correct A line of the coastline this is named the Base Layer and both rainfall boundaries including buffered boundaries The user can turn the rainfall boundaries on and off to assist with error diagnosis but cannot do this for the Base Layer o Note each rainfall zone has a buffer of one pixel 250 m This buffer accounts for the fact that when clipping the correctly geo referenced vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF with the polygon rainfall boundary border pixels are likely to still overlap the polygon by up to one pixel width depending on the software employed by the user and the options selected to do the clip Due to the nature of polygons the use of this buffer does not bias the estimate because the area of additional land beyond the boundary that is included is on average equal to area of land omitted where the activity is permitted and carried out This means that on average the area of land considered will closely conform to the unbuffered rainfall boundary Where
33. etation fel type 5 A 1 hOFM Open Forest Mixed pixel value above pixel 2 hw Woodand Mixes 3 hWHu Woodland Hummock 4 SHH Shrubland Hummock 11 IWHu Woodland with Hummock grass 12 IWMi Woodland with Mixed grass 13 IWTu Woodland with Tussock grass 14 IOWM Open Woodland with Mixed grass 15 SHH Shrubland Heath with Hummock grass Invalid Pixels Pixel Value 1 Next button disabled Lat 15 59 40 S Long 133 50 53 E Albers Easting 202070 Albers Northing 1484154 Where there are many invalid pixels it may assist diagnosis to turn off the invalid vegetation pixel layer as below Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 20 N A F SavBAT2 Savanna Burning Abatement Tool High and Low Rainfall Australian Government 7 Welcome Y2 Upload Map 3 Confirm Map 4 Select Process 5 Project Details 6 Results Vegetation Map Vegtype_nodata255 _8 tif q Vegetation Raster Legend id pi Base L Invalid pixel layer Base Layer w man on to peaa Invalid Vegetation Pixels lnetigtte vegetation fusi type In diag nosis High rainfall zone ae Ee hWMi Woodland Mixed Low rainfall zone hWHu Woodland Hummock hSHH Shrubland Hummock High rainfall zone 250m buffer 11 IWHu Woodland with Hummock grass Low rainfall zone 250m buffer 12 IWMi Woodland with Mixed grass 13 IWTu Woodland with Tussock grass 14 IOWM Open Woodland with Mixed grass
34. fire characteristics cccccccccccccccecceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 24 5 2 Analyse the abatement estimate result ccc ee eeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeteeeeeeeeeeeteeee 25 5 3 Assess the projects target fire regime ccccecceeeeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeness 26 6 SAVE AS 2 audien ena r A a vapvatandenreiand EE 26 Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 3 6 1 SAaVBAT2 autenticity coi iea agate oe aac r E EEEE EEEE pated 27 TA Eo p E 161 A 0 Ke A A E E E A nasa tadecesdsale 28 8 Acknowledgements 2a ccc dicagek cc cee eee padsaietccccdetena dudes siconceeeceenuqusbaccrbesedoetensiaanduenddensers 28 Appendix A Procedure for generating project vegetation fuel type data for input to SavBAT2 from validated project vegetation fuel type MAPPING eee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeteeeeeeeeeeeeteeeeaaees 29 Appendix B SavBAT errors and probleMm SOlVing eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eee eeeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeteeeenaaees 37 Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 4 1 ABOUT SAVBAT2 SavBAT2 automates geospatial and other calculations required to estimate greenhouse gas abatement for a project in accordance with the exposure draft of the Carbon Credits Carbon Farming Initiative Emissions Abatement through Savanna Fire Management Methodology Determination 2015 the methodology The Department of the Environment and independent assessors quality assured SavBAT2 and f
35. firm Map Information Message A Not an error information only pixels in the vegetation raster are valid The raster is located in both rainfall regions Confirm Map Error Message lt xxx gt high For uploaded GeoTIFF pixels are attributed rainfall vegetation pixels are correctly but one or more pixels attributed as incorrectly located outside the uniquely high rainfall i e 1 2 3 4 are located high rainfall region outside of the high rainfall zone where lt xxx gt is replaced by the number of pixels in error These misplaced pixels are colour coded in red on the Confirm Map page Use the SavBAT2 mapping functionality to identify the invalid pixel and externally to SavBAT2 modify the file to comply with the requirements in Vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF page 14 Confirm Map Error Message lt xxx gt low For uploaded GeoTIFF pixels are attributed rainfall vegetation pixels are incorrectly located outside the low rainfall region correctly but one or more pixels attributed as uniquely low rainfall i e 11 12 13 14 15 are located outside of the high rainfall zone where lt Xxx gt is replaced by the number of pixels in error these misplaced pixels are colour coded in red on the Confirm Map page Use the SavBAT2 mapping functionality to identify the invalid pixel and externally to SavBAT2 modify the file to comply with the requirements in Vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF page 14 Select process
36. ivities likely to have high Indigenous participation SavBAT2 builds on the success of SavBAT Development and hosting of SavBAT2 is funded by the Department of the Environment and made possible by the following organisations e The North Australian Fire Information service NAFI allows SavBAT2 to access necessary map data e The Indigenous Land Corporation and Latitude Forest Services assisted with the design and development of the procedure for preparing project data on vegetation fuel types for input to SavBAT2 Attachment A e Darwin Centre for Bushfire Research DCBR at Charles Darwin University contributed to the development and testing of SavBAT2 and this manual e Auricht projects Charles Darwin University and Darwin Herbarium created the base map of vegetation fuel types e The Clean Energy Regulator for advice on auditing e Spatial Vision designed and developed the web tool Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 28 APPENDIX A PROCEDURE FOR GENERATING PROJECT VEGETATION FUEL TYPE DATA FOR INPUT TO SAVBAT2 FROM VALIDATED PROJECT VEGETATION FUEL TYPE MAPPING This appendix describes how to produce project vegetation fuel type data in the required format for input to SavBAT2 All other formats will be rejected by SavBAT2 The definition of the required format is as follows Image Format 8 bit palette GeoTIFF Georeferencing information Embedded in GeoTIFF tags Image File Extension TIF
37. l item number then the name of the fuel combusted e g 56 Kerosene for use as fuel in an aircraft 3 The user must externally from SavBAT2 calculate the emissions from fuel use in accordance with the requirements of the NGER Measurement Determination Volume Used and Emissions from Fuel Use will be validated by SavBAT2 as positive numbers 2 3 Data for abatement estimate 2 3 1 Late dry season start date for hypothetical year The hypothetical reporting year LDS start dates will default to 1 Aug and be able to be set to 1 Jul 1 Aug or 1 Sep The start date of the LDS for each year of the reporting and baseline period may be published by the Government for various regions across north Australia If the Government does not publish a date the default start date is 1 August It is unlikely that the Government would publish a LDS start date for a hypothetical i e future year Users may choose to select a LDS start date based on the historical LDS start dates for the area 2 3 2 Price per tonne of CO2 e The user can by pressing the button Gross Value activate functionality where they can input their estimate of the price per tonne of COz e The e value for the estimated abatement when multiplied by this value is displayed 3 GETTING STARTED USING SAVBAT2 SavBAT2 pages are set up for ease of navigation with buttons at the base of each page allowing users to navigate backwards and forwards at any point before the calculati
38. ly attributed c Be based on mapping products of topographical and landscape features such as landform substrate slope elevation projected foliage cover persistent greenness or a Satellite derived vegetation index d Be validated in accordance with section 3 4 using validation data collected not more than three years before project commencement Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 29 The procedure described here assumes Vegetation fuel type map data have been created or derived by the user and saved as a shapefile The vegetation fuel type data has been clipped to the project boundary and the relevant rainfall zone boundary s for the production of a SavBAT2 offsets report attachment to be submitted to the Clean Energy Regulator as part of the projects offsets report the vegetation fuel type map has been created and validated according to the methodology ESRI ArcGIS Desktop is being used as the GIS application As part of ArcGIS Desktop ArcMap is used for data manipulation whereas ArcGIS Explorer can be used for viewing vegetation fuel type layers Users can employ other GIS applications if they wish however the steps below will not apply Freeware GIS applications include QGIS http www qgis org en site and MapWindow http www mapwindow org these can also be used to view vegetation fuel type layers Some data manipulation in GIS freeware is available this usually requires the user
39. ma s information is available USEF Selects the gross i Ye LDS Start Date value option 1999 1 August 2000 1 August 2001 1 August Cells display abatement in tonnes of use vies ugi CO2 e or gross value depending on ae faze the display option chosen by the user Display shows ESA AA information about the N 2005 1 August abatement estimate 2006 1 August 2007 1 August 2008 1 August 2009 1 August 2010 1 August 2011 1 August 2012 1 August 2013 1 August Hypothetical 1 August Return to Start The initial view of the calculation results is tonnes of CO e for scenarios of percentage of the area uploaded into SavBAT2 burnt in the EDS and LDS in 10 increments The of project area burnt by fire season is the fire scar area as a percentage of the area uploaded into SavBAT2 not the fire scar area multiplied by patchiness as a percentage of the area uploaded into SavBAT2 The right side of the page displays information about the area uploaded into SavBAT2 and the information used to inform the abatement estimate This information and the results in tonnes of COz e are static and do not change If the user wishes to change any of the information about the area uploaded into SavBAT2 or the abatement estimate other than the price per tonne they will need to run another simulation Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 22 As well as the tonnes of CO e the user can by pressing the button Gross V
40. ministration of the SavBAT2 from time to time Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 2 Contents DISCIAUIN GR eitiubidtonests Gackuenh a a a a E e auc a aauec tons 2 T gt SAD OUL SAVEBAN 2 rerea lisse E a AEE 5 1 1 Step by step use of SavBAT 2 2 ictcsarSecerticteearscdaantie nga Aco iehieesne eaten as 6 1 2 SavBAT2 offsets reports ase ease aes ht cce alesse caw ecpeetcmgt cen suncees emt eaese 8 1 3 Abatement estimate s 5c2 ss eecttrccencnriaccartaneaeeeactventecronteeaumataciiannteadeueteeleocttem ben ennn 8 1 3 1 Differences due to use of a non validated vegetation fuels type dataset 9 1 3 2 Differences due to data used to inform the calculation processes 065 9 TAY Browser supponieronere E e a eat atenaey ae 12 2 Before you start Data required from the user ssssssserssessserererrrrrrsserrrrrrnnrrsserrerrrnn 12 2 1 Data common to SavBAT2 offsets reports and abatement estimates 26 13 2 1 1 Spatial Data aires a AE EE AE EEA EAEE 13 2 1 2 Baseline period and start date of the late dry S aSON ceceeeeetteeeetteees 15 2 1 3 Global Warming Potential Values eee cece eee eeeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeeeeesesaaeaes 16 2 2 Data for SavBAT 2 offsets TOPOS ssacaccsedtiistuedenieddgeele net iedieatlle eds tedongeeleneetaeds 16 2 2 1 Project ID and Project Name ccccceeeeeeeesseceeeeeeeeeeeeeeenaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeenaaaaes 16 2 2 2 Reporting year and start date of th
41. of different prices for the same abatement estimate then the gross value results can be exported multiple times for the same abatement calculation 3 3 SavBAT2 errors and problem solving Appendix B describes the SavBAT2 error messages and procedures for addressing the errors 4 RESULTS SAVBAT2 OFFSETS REPORT For the offsets report option SavBAT2 produces two separate PDF reports and an Excel file which are zipped and provided to the user for download The three outputs are e Offsets report attachment o File Name Attachment1_Calculations_And_Maps_For_Project_Offset_Report paf e Record keeping information o File Name Calculations_And_Maps_For_Project_Record_Keeping paf e Excel file o File Name Calculations_And_Maps_For_Project_Record_Keeping xlsx Note that where an area uploaded into SavBAT2 spans low and high rainfall zones the results will be integrated within these reports The reports and files produced by SavBAT2 do not contain all of the content that project proponents need to provide as part of their offsets report submission to the Clean Energy Regulator or keep as their records The SavBAT2 offsets report attachment contains the Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 23 necessary maps and calculation result for net annual abatement and the project proponent will need to manually create their offsets report 4 1 Record keeping Information included in Excel file The report t
42. ogy s Explanatory Statement provides guidance on the steps involved to develop and validate a vegetation fuels type map required to create a compliant vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF 2 GeoTIFF files that upload successfully to SavBAT i e existing high rainfall zone projects are also correctly attributed and formatted for upload into SavBAT2 When these files are uploaded into a SavBAT2 calculations will be undertaken in accordance with the exposure draft of the Carbon Credits Emissions Abatement through Savanna Fire Management Methodology Determination 2015 or b SavBAT calculations will be undertaken in accordance with the Carbon Farming Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Early Dry Season Savanna Burning 1 1 Methodology Determination 2013 available at http www comlaw qgov au Details F2013L01165 2 1 1 2 Project boundary file Users choosing to use a project boundary file must externally from SavBAT2 prepare a project boundary file in a supported format projection and structure as defined in the table below File Formats Three options e zipped shapefile ZIP containing at least SHP DBF SHX and PRJ files e KML e KMZ Projection e shapefile in GDA94 Geographics or GDA_1994_ Albers e KML KMZ only support WGS84 Geographics Allowed Features Must contain one or more polygons each of which may be multi part polygons No attributes required or used but these may be present The user must direct S
43. on has been initiated The user must have uploaded a valid file or populated required cells with valid data to progress through the pages using the Next or Calculate buttons Note that when using SavBAT2 the user should navigate using the buttons provided at the bottom of each page do not use the browser s Back or Forward buttons to navigate SavBAT2 assists users through drop down menus for standard values where they occur Cells or drop down menus can be selected either by tabbing or selecting the cell using the cursor Cells are colour coding or shaded to help users Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 17 e White Cell requires value but user has not yet tabbed through or clicked on the cell e Green Data passes validation Note that this does not mean that the data is correct for the user s project area uploaded into SavBAT2 e Red User has input invalid data or selected a cell without populating the cell Until all required cells have been populated with valid data the Next or Calculate button will be disabled The below image shows standard features in the Offsets Report Project Details page The Abatement Estimate has the same features but requires less data NAF tama Savanna Burning Abatement Tool High and Low Rainfall Project ID Project Name Reporting Year LDS Start Date Red Tabbed cell requires data and has Drop down menu been left unpopulated
44. oponents are required to provide as part of their offsets submission to the Clean Energy Regulator or to keep as their records The exact content of the outputs is detailed in Results SavBAT2 offsets report from page 23 which also lists the additional data required to meet reporting and record keeping requirements SavBAT2 e verifies that the area uploaded into SavBAT2 complies with the long term average rainfall requirements of the methodology e calculates the years since last burnt YSLB values for each pixel in an area uploaded into SavBAT2 e calculates the fire scar area A in the EDS and the LDS periods for each vegetation fuel type class e accepts pre prepared data for fuel use e accepts user defined global warming potential values e calculates net annual abatement required for offsets reporting and record keeping e creates many of the maps required for offsets reporting and record keeping SavBAT2 does not e provide mapping functionality that permits the user to create the vegetation fuel type map required by the methodology e assess whether the vegetation fuels type map used by SavBAT2 to undertake the calculations has been validated in accordance with the methodology e link to the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting NGER legislation for the Fuel Usage and Global Warming Potential information users should access NGER legislation independently for this information e calculate discounted net annual project abatem
45. ound it is a true and correct translation of the methodology SavBAT2 builds on SavBAT allowing users to e diagnose issues with user created vegetation fuel type maps e upload a project boundary and create a project vegetation fuel type dataset from a Government supplied vegetation fuel type base map o Note the vegetation fuel type base map is not certified as meeting the requirements of the methodology and cannot be submitted in an offsets report to the Clean Energy Regulator The base map functionality is provided to assist proponents with estimates of abatement potential e estimate abatement potential for a hypothetical future year o Note this estimate uses the same processes and calculations as the SavBAT2 offsets report However it does not account for fuel use and makes assumptions that may result in estimates of potential abatement which are materially different from the abatement which is ultimately realized See Abatement estimate page 8 for more information on the abatement estimate functionality Version 1 0 of SavBAT is applicable only to projects registered with an earlier methodology for savanna fire management made on 10 June 2013 ComLaw ID F2013L01165 This earlier methodology applies only to areas receiving above 1000 mm average annual rainfall SavBAT2 also supports projects in the low rainfall zone between 600 and 1000 mm of average annual rainfall and less than 15 mm rainfall in the driest quarter in addition to the
46. r My Default Map poe ii i Home Display Toots Appearance Tel SS Directions g Target GF Circle fo SB Bgu 3 lt gt Manage Layers F De ag Gay QU Go p oan lt e FA 5 w E To Ng car A an sos gt e 6 Text jlijil line A Rectangle amp Copy to Clipboard Find 4 Folder View Link Point Basemap Layer Add Analysis Search Contents 2D3D Presentation Presentation Guus Measure f Area GA Arrow gt Content Window Window Zoom To Presentation Find Create Map 2 F CFL SavBAT verification _vegtype1000 Position 23 029087 133 1767229 If displaying the vegetation layer in ArcMap choose the Add Data option and navigate to the layer saved in the directory then open The screen display will be very similar to the ArcGIS Explorer display Use the information button option to click on and find out more information about individual pixels or refer to the left hand panel for pixel values and associated colours 2 To verify the coordinate system and projection and that it complies with SavBAT2 requirements GDA_1994 Albers open layer properties in ArcGIS Explorer by right clicking the vegetation layer title in the left hand contents panel Under the Source Data tab it will list data type raster and the coordinate system If this coordinate system is different to GDA_1994 Albers please use ArcMap another GIS with data manipulation functionality to re project the layer
47. r use in SavBAT2 but can help in confirming the format and features of existing tif vegetation layers and making some fixes to existing data If the user wishes to view and verify an existing tif vegetation fuel type layer they should use a GIS application to do so such as ArcMap as used in the steps above or ArcGIS Explorer as included in the ESRI ArcGIS platform Freeware and other GIS software will also work provided the user has an understanding of the software functionality and tools The below examples use both ArcGIS Explorer and ArcMap to work through the viewing and verification process The verification process can be used for example to check for correct vegetation fuel type attribution across the area uploaded into SavBAT2 and more generally to confirm that the vegetation fuel type layer has been created correctly for use in SavBAT2 1 In ArcGIS Explorer display the vegetation fuel type layer by using the Add Content gt Raster Data options Find the vegetation fuel type layer in the directory box that appears and select and open The visual representation of the layer will appear in the data frame on the right and the contents panel on the left will show the pixel values that correspond to the raster layer These pixel values reflect the vegetation type dependent on rainfall area as detailed in the first table of Appendix A Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 35 G Raster Layer ArcGIS Explore
48. rainfall zones is not certified as meeting the requirements of the methodology and cannot be submitted in an offsets report to the Clean Energy Regulator Use of the base map is only for hypothetical abatement estimates Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 13 2 1 1 1 Vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF Users choosing to use a vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF must externally from SavBAT2 prepare a raster format vegetation fuel type map in a supported format projection and structure as defined in the table below Image Format 8 bit palette GeoTIFF Georeferencing information Embedded in GeoTIFF tags Image File Extension TIF or TIFF Projection GDA_1994 Albers EPSG 3577 Upload Format Single TIF file no ancillary files required or allowed Grid Size Resolution 250 m x 250 m Pixel values high rainfall zone Pixels must have the following values depicting the relevant vegetation fuel type 0 Pixel is within the project area but contains an ineligible vegetation fuel type 1 hOFM Open Forest Mixed 2 AWMi Woodland Mixed 3 hWHu Woodland Hummock 4 hSHH Shrubland Hummock 255 NODATA i e pixel is outside the project area Pixel values low rainfall zone Pixels must have the following values depicting the relevant vegetation fuel type 0 Pixel is within the project area but contains an ineligible vegetation fuel type 11 IWHu Woodland with Hummock grass 12 I
49. s Option 1 Option 2 Offsets Report Abatement Estimate Project Details Project Details See Data common to SavBAT2 offsets reports See Data common to SavBAT2 offsets reports and abatement estimates page 13 and and abatement estimates page 13 and Data for SavBAT2 offsets reports page 16 Data for abatement estimate page 17 Input user defined values Input user defined values e Project ID e Late dry season start date for e Project Name hypothetical year e Reporting Year e Global Warming Potential Values o Late dry season start date for e Baseline Period reporting year o Late dry season start date for e Baseline Period each year of the baseline o Late dry season start date for period each year of the baseline period e Fuel Usage Details e Global Warming Potential Values Results Results See Results SavBAT2 offsets report page 23 See Results Abatement estimate page 24 Zipped file containing e Displayed in a web page e Offsets report attachment e Price per tonne of COz e e Record keeping information e All data on the page is downloadable e Excel file containing tables in the as a Comma Separated Value CSV report but excluding the maps and file i e Export to CSV button their titles Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 7 1 2 SavBAT2 offsets report The zipped portable document format pdf reports produced by SavBAT2 do not contain all of the content that project pr
50. se of a non validated vegetation fuels type dataset The use of a non validated vegetation fuels type dataset will result in differences between the abatement estimate and what abatement is ultimately realised This occurs when the user chooses to upload e a project boundary In this case SavBAT2 creates a vegetation fuel type dataset from the vegetation fuel type base map or e a user created GeoTIFF that has not been validated in accordance with the methodology In both instances the completeness or accuracy of this map for any uploaded project boundary is unknown 1 3 2 Differences due to data used to inform the calculation processes Abatement estimate calculations in SavBAT2 are informed by geospatial analysis when appropriate data are available i e past data and or assumptions about the probabilities of vegetation fuel types burning in each fire season SavBAT2 offsets report calculations are informed only by geospatial analysis resulting in differences between the abatement estimate and what abatement is ultimately realised How these processes are used in the abatement estimate calculations is described below Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 9 Calculation type and the use of data derived using geospatial or probability calculation SavBAT2 offsets report for reporting Abatement estimate for hypothetical Area burnt by fire Geospatial Uses the seasonal fire map Geospatial Geospatial data is not season
51. sions outputs the uploaded raster vegetation fuel type dataset and SavBAT2 code that calculates the emissions and all interim values This will be done as follows a Each time the process is run by a user an MD5 checksum value will be computed for SavBAT2 code and a separate MD5 checksum will be computed for the user s vegetation fuel type dataset as uploaded b These two hexadecimal values will be added to produce the final hexadecimal checksum value c The checksum value will be included in the output reports This allows an audit of the output to be undertaken at any time by recomputing the file checksums adding them and comparing the result to the value included in the report SavBAT2 automatically adds the two component values Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 27 7 CONTACT US To contact the Australian Government for any reason regarding SavBAT2 please contact the Department of the Environment at cfi climatechange gov au or by phoning 1800 057 590 8 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Version 1 0 of the Carbon Farming Initiative CFI Savanna Burning Abatement Tool SavBAT was funded through a grant to Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information and Bushfires NT under the Research and Development Stream of the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund This Fund aimed to encourage Indigenous participation in the CFI by supporting the development and accelerating the uptake of CFI methodologies for abatement act
52. t be 1 bit It must be a 8 bit palette GeoTIFF The uploaded GeoTIFF file is not in the required format Externally to SavBAT2 modify the file to comply with the requirements in Vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF page 14 More help is available in Appendix A page 29 Upload map Error Message Fail to get GeoTransform Metadata The uploaded GeoTIFF or project boundary file may be in the supported format projection and or structure however when SavBAT2 tries to set the GIS dataset metadata which defines its projection an unspecified error occurs in SavBAT2 This is unlikely to occur try the process again and if the problem persists contact the Department of the Environment Upload Map Error Message Unexpected Error Upload failure reason unknown Please select the file and try again The upload of the GeoTIFF or project boundary file fails for unknown reason s Check the map file to ensure it conforms to spatial data requirements and for project boundary files that the file does not contain duplicate polygons Upload map Error Message The uploaded shapefile has no projection file The uploaded project boundary ZIP file folder contains the SHP SHX and DBF files but no PRJ file Externally to SavBAT2 modify the file to comply with the requirements in Project boundary file page 15 Upload map Error Message The uploaded zip file does not contain a valid shapefile The uploaded
53. to download relevant add ons Steps 1 Open a new ArcGIS for Desktop session using the ArcMap program Do not have any layers open added Open Data Frame Properties see image below and ensure the data frame is in a GDA_1994_Albers ESPG 3577 projection as defined in the table below Data Frame Properties o Feature Cache Annotation Groups Extent Indicators Frame Size and Position General Data Frame Coordinate System tlumination Grids Y X Type here to search QA amp j v f AGD 1984 AMG Zone 56 AGD 1984 AMG Zone 57 E AGD 1984 AMG Zone 58 GDA 1994 BCSG02 GDA 1994 Geoscience Australia Lambert GDA 1994 MGA Zone 48 GDA 1994 MGA Zone 49 ED CNA 1004 MACA Tann EN lt m gt Current coordinate system GDA_1994_Australia_Albers a WKID 3577 Authority EPSG Proje ction Albers Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 30 PROJCS GDA94 Australian Albers e Geographic Coordinate System GCS _GDA_1994 or GDA94 o DATUM Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 SPHEROID GRS 1980 6378137 0 298 257222101 e AUTHORITY EPSG 7019 T TOWGS84 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 AUTHORITY EPSG 6283 o PRIMEM Greenwich 0 0 AUTHORITY EPSG 8901 UNIT degree 0 01745329251 9943295 AXIS Geodetic longitude EAST AXIS Geodetic latitude NORTH AUTHO
54. ur network is working correctly press the browser refresh button to try reloading the SavBAT2 website Upload map Error Next button not No valid spatial file has been uploaded by the functioning user upload a valid spatial file Upload map Error Message Error The uploaded GeoTIFF file is not attributed SavBAT will not be able to complete calculations until the vegetation pixels are attributed correctly or all eligible vegetation pixels are located wholly within the relevant rainfall zone This must be completed by modifying the Veg GeoTIFF externally to correctly or some eligible vegetation pixels are outside the relevant rainfall zone Externally to SavBAT2 modify the file to comply with the requirements in Vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF page 14 and upload it again SavBAT Upload map Error Message Dataset is The uploaded GeoTIFF or boundary file is completely outside the rainfall correctly attributed but entirely out of the rainfall region regions Externally to SavBAT2 modify the file to comply with the requirements in Vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF page 14 Upload map Error Message The The uploaded GeoTIFF or boundary file is not uploaded file is not valid please try again in the supported format projection and structure Externally to SavBAT2 modify the file to comply with the requirements in Vegetation fuel type GeoTIFF page 14 or Project boundary file page 15
55. vegetation fuels types in EDS and LDS from Table 11 such as in the hypothetical example below b examine the annual variability in these user calculated values Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 24 Average area burnt in Area Ha baseline ha for Project sum of vegetation fuel Region types from Table 11 sum of yp Baseline year vegetation fuel types LDS from Table A of project area burnt 98 612 7 10 Average 441 786 454 823 2 000 000 It is anticipated that future versions of SavBAT will provide this type of information along with the abatement estimate output 5 2 Analyse the abatement estimate result Using the knowledge about the baseline trace the average LDS burnt yellow arrow to where it meets the average EDS burnt blue arrow Users make their own extrapolations regarding abatement for areas burnt between the 10 increments Commonwealth of Australia 2014 SavBAT2 User Manual Page 25 N A F SavBAT2 Savanna Burning Abatement Tool High and Low Rainfall p recone JE roan Ja avn ap JE Soe Poos Popa Doais Jores Abatement Estimation produced on 30 10 20 Australian Government 19 50 49 using base vegetation map clipped by project boundary rainfall_both_gda94 zip Display Tonnes of CO2 e Gross Value Export to CSV Vegetation Fuel Type by Area Ha for Project Region Of project area burnt in Early Dry Season Rainfall Vegetation Area
56. ype previous year s fire activity not the current in the area uploaded into SavBAT2 year The area burnt in 2013 data is used Compared with the SavBAT2 offsets to compile the YSLB data for 2013 and this report process described to the left this data is then be used for 2014 calculations process Probability Geospatial data is available to uses the most recent year of YSLB populate this table so probability based data available and overlays this inputs are not required or used data with the vegetation fuels type map then multiplies the resulting area by the percentage burnt for the EDS and LDS for the cell of the estimation results currently being calculated Below is a hypothetical example that illustrates the limitations of the abatement estimate Hypothetical example A high rainfall project has two vegetation fuel types hSHH and hOFM with areas of 100 000 and 10 000 ha respectively In February 2016 the project proponent uses SavBAT2 to investigate abatement scenarios for the coming fire season SavBAT2 overlays the project vegetation fuel type map with the available 2015 YSLB data to create Table i below SavBAT2 then assigns area burnt by YSLB as per each combination of EDS and LDS percent area burnt from the results matrix Table ii below gives a scenario from a results matrix where 10 of the area is burnt in the EDS and 20 in the LDS Table iii demonstrates how Table i and ii are combined for this

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