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.
Jukka Miettinen
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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 […]
Last week, Forest Carbon Monitoring participated in the ESA Φ-Week, which was held as a hybrid event on the 11-15 October 2021. This fourth edition of the phi-week concentrated in New Space economy and associated innovations. The sessions, posters and side-events presented in the Phi-Week highlighted how the New Space […]
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 […]