We contribute to climate change mitigation activities by developing a platform for forest carbon monitoring with high accuracy, reach and frequency
Forests are essential in maintaining healthy ecosystem interaction and biodiversity on Earth. They are in a key role in the fight against climate change since they can restore increasing carbon stocks. Hence, several national and international initiatives (including the UNFCCC Paris Agreement and the EU LULUCF Regulation) require regular reporting of forest biomass and carbon. Robust, reliable and transparent monitoring approaches of forest biomass and carbon are needed to respond to reporting requirements.
The Forest Carbon Monitoring project will develop and implement a prototype of a reliable and cost-efficient monitoring and accounting platform for forest carbon stock based on satellite remote sensing approaches supported by in-situ datasets.
Spatially detailed data from large forest areas — also regions without proper forest inventory data.
Openly available satellite datasets used together with published monitoring methods.
Enabling high resolution mapping and monitoring of global forests.
Reaching global scale with frequent data acquisition and long-term standardized systems at low cost.
Good news! The Forest Carbon Monitoring prototype product portal has been officially launched. Through this portal you can view and download all the prototype products that have been produced with openly available datasets. You can find more information on the specifications of the demonstrations at the ‘Demonstrations’ page.
Another major milestone has been reached in the project, with all the eight main demonstrations successfully concluded. Altogether, 79 prototype map products were delivered to the users in the demonstrations, including forest structure variables, biomass and growth variables and change detection products.
The long-awaited Forest Carbon Monitoring User Workshop was finally held in sunny Espoo, Finland, on the 1-2 March 2023. This was the culmination point of the cooperation with our user partners, who have been supporting the project from the very beginning.
