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
Prototype product viewing and downloading portal launched
Good news! The Forest Carbon Monitoring prototype product portal has been officially launched. Through this portal you can view and download all the prototype products that have been produced with openly available datasets. You can find more information on the specifications of the demonstrations at the ‘Demonstrations’ page.
Platform prototype demonstrations concluded
Another major milestone has been reached in the project, with all the eight main demonstrations successfully concluded. Altogether, 79 prototype map products were delivered to the users in the demonstrations, including forest structure variables, biomass and growth variables and change detection products.
Successful FCM User Workshop provided valuable feedback
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.