Forest
Today, trees play another role, that of climate ally. Acting as a carbon sink, they can remove vast amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere, up to 328 million tonnes per year according to some estimates. This CO2 is then stored, with the Forest Information System for Europe calculating that, as of 2020, forests hold a total carbon stock of 92.1 gigatonnes.
Using Earth Observation land monitoring systems, climate scientists can map and monitor forest biomass and estimate its potential to serve as a carbon sink.
In this area, EvoLand is developing a range of new products and upgrading existing ones. More precisely, our consortium is looking to improve the timeliness of the data currently generated by Copernicus CLMS and develop new forest mapping products:
- Continuous Forest Monitoring
- Forest Disturbance Mapping
- Forest biomass Mapping
Access the FOREST excerpt of the Navigating the future of land monitoring webinar series below to learn more:
Discover prototype services to support sustainable forest management
C2 – Forest disturbance mapping
Combining Continuous Forest Monitoring to map forest disturbances in a timely manner.
C3 – Forest biomass mapping
High-Resolution Layer (HRL) Vegetated Land Cover Characteristics (VLCC) with spatiotemporally consistent estimates of above-ground woody biomass (AGB) and Forest Canopy Height (FCH).
C1 – Continuous Forest monitoring
EvoLand will improve the timeliness of the status and change of High-Resolution Layers (HRL) products for Forest Monitoring by providing near real-time information (weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly). Aiming for an almost fully automated processing approach, it is looking to achieve a 10m spatial resolution.
C12 – Tree type mapping
To deliver a three-yearly update of tree types across Europe, covering at least 13 different classes to complement the HRL portfolio.
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