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.
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.
A workshop entitled “Towards harmonised forest monitoring and reporting for the EU” was organized in context of the Swedish Presidency on 1-2 February 2023 in Uppsala, Sweden. This workshop was a a follow-up to the workshop held in Kutná Hora in September 2022 during the Czech EU Council Presidency, to […]
Finnish Satellite Workshop (https://spaceworkshop.fi/) is one of the largest annual Earth observation events in Finland. The Forest Carbon Monitoring project is proud to be represented in this three-day event taking place in Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland, 18-20 January 2023.
