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.
Jukka Miettinen
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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 […]