The Forest Carbon Monitoring project team participated the Finnish Satellite Workshop and Remote Sensing Days 2021 (https://spaceworkshop.fi/index.html), which was organized as a virtual event 23-24 August 2021. It is the largest New Space meeting in Northern Europe with nearly 500 people participating this year, from all over the world. The meeting brought together space technology specialists, scientists and EO users to discuss current topics in a rapidly developing space field.
The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, who is coordinating the Forest Carbon Monitoring project, presented the project in the ‘Biodiversity and Climate’-session on the second day of the workshop. The presentation gave an overview of the newly launched project, highlighting the main objectives, activities and timeline. The presentation was well received and the participants showed interest in following the progress of the project in the coming two years.
In addition to providing a good stage for distributing the information of the Forest Carbon Monitoring project, the event gave a great opportunity for the project team to hear about the latest developments in both the satellite hardware as well as the satellite data application. The project team will continue to provide updates and present results of the project in the future Finnish Satellite Workshops and other events.
Project aim
Policy change – the needs for forest carbon monitoring remain
Last year has seen major shifts in EU policy-making processes, most notably the withdrawal of the legislative proposal for an EU Forest Monitoring Regulation in October 2025. Simultaneously, debates and delays surrounding the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) have created some level of uncertainty concerning the future of this policy. Meanwhile […]
FCM project is ending… But the tools will live on!
As unbelievable as it sounds, we have come to the end of the ESA Forest Carbon Monitoring project. It has been a long and rewarding journey. Over the past four years, the project designed and implemented a toolset for remote sensing-based forest structure and biomass monitoring. The toolset offers a […]
FCM Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD) published
The Forest Carbon Monitoring (FCM) project has been designing and implementing a versatile set of tools for EO-based forest structure and biomass monitoring. In the anticipation of the imminent publication of the FCM tools, we are happy to make available the FCM Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD). This document provides […]