Innovators II - NEA-Forest
Forest Monitoring for Greenhouse Gas Information in Northeastern Asia
Boreal forests, one of the largest ecosystems on earth, are considered as a key regulator element in the overall equations to mitigate the effect of man-made carbon emissions. In fact, recent studies showed that the risk of fires in the boreal forests of the north had increased in recent years because of climate change and fire became a more important driver of the carbon balance than climate was in the last 50 years.
| Innovators II - NEA-Forest | |
| Forest Monitoring for Greenhouse Gas Information in Northeastern Asia | |
| DUE (Data User Element) | |
| Land | |
| €100k | |
| Service Demonstration | |
| Completed | |
| SPOT 4/5 : Vegetation ERS-2 : ATSR-2 ERS-1 : ATSR-1 EOS-Aqua : MODIS |
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The objective of this study is to implement a service to monitor the growth state and anomalies (including fires) of these forests in North-eastern Asia, a region where two thirds of the global boreal forest can be found. The service consists of a web- based application capable of updating the state of the forest and the extent of forest fires through the variables such as Net Primary Productivity (NPP), NPP anomalies, burnt areas, and burnt areas history. To this end, the proposed service uses the DUE GlobCarbon and the GlobCover datasets. |
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| Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek | |
| UNEP MLAP-ASIA VITO |
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| Dr. Qinghan Dong Flemish Institute of Technological Research Boeretang 200 2400 Mol Belgium Email: qinghan.dong@vito.be |
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| Dr. Bojan Bojkov European Space Agency/ESRIN via Galileo Galilei I-00044 Frascati (Roma) ITALY Tel.: +39 06-941.80543 Fax: +39 06-941.80552 Email: bojan.bojkov@esa.int |
