The Forest Carbon Monitoring project is well represented in the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2022 taking place this week in Bonn, Germany.
Jukka Miettinen
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The Forest Carbon Monitoring project is gearing up towards the demonstration phase. For the past two months, massive Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 pre-processing tasks have been run on the Forestry TEP online platform.
We have reached another exciting phase in the Forest Carbon Monitoring project. We have the first results of the estimation of variables like basal area, diameter, height and growing stock volume, as well as species identification and site type classification.
The findings of a recently concluded H2020 Forest Flux Innovation Action project will directly benefit our ongoing Forest Carbon Monitoring project.
Remote sensing observations from space are evolving to operational tools, possibly in complement with measurements taken on the ground. In the forestry sector, the use of satellite data is appealing because these cover large areas within a short period of time providing repeated snapshots of the landscape.
The Forest Carbon Monitoring project has been discussing with organizations about their carbon monitoring needs at European to national and regional levels, and even at the level of individual forest estates.
As pointed out in an earlier blog post (16.12.2021), the market for carbon credits will be given a boost once carbon stocks and changes can be accurately verified at low cost. However, this does not mean that until a forest carbon credit market really takes off, there would not be any need for monitoring carbon in the forests.
Industrialized countries are reporting their greenhouse gas emissions annually to the UNFCCC. These emission reports include emissions and removals of greenhouse gases...
One of the scientific aspects to be further developed in the Forest Carbon Monitoring project is the integration of process-based forest ecosystem models into the forest biomass and carbon flux monitoring framework. The recent article ‘Demonstration of large area forest volume and primary production estimation approach based on Sentinel-2 imagery […]