Primary Industry
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IndustryClimate Technology & Software
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Size11-50 employees
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Company TypeMRV, Emissions Measurement & Monitoring
Forests play a crucial role in maintaining ecosystems, biodiversity, and combating climate change by restoring carbon sinks and increasing carbon stocks. To meet reporting requirements set by initiatives like the Paris Agreement and the EU LULUCF Regulation, robust forest biomass and carbon monitoring are essential. The European Space Agency (ESA) funded Forest Carbon-funded Forest Carbon Monitoring project is developing and implementing tools for reliable and cost-efficient monitoring using satellite remote sensing and in-situ data.
Possible users of the carbon monitoring info products include forest managers, carbon crediting organisations, insurance, investors, and regional to national administrators and international organisations.
After completing ten use case demonstrations by July 2023 in Austria (Styria), Finland, Ireland, Peru, Romania, Spain (Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia) and at European level, the project continues to advance with the Catalonian and European use cases, as well as with entirely new use case demonstrations planned in Norway, Colombia, and another tropical location (to be revealed later). Stay tuned, stay linked-in for the latest updates!
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd leads the project consortium, further consisting of European Forest Institute, GAMMA Remote Sensing, German Helmholtz Research Centre for Geosciences, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), South Pole, Terramonitor and Yucatrote. Phase 1 project partners furhter included also AFRY, Joanneum Research, Natural Resources Institute Finland and University of Helsinki.
