We contribute to climate change mitigation activities by developing a platform for forest carbon monitoring with high accuracy, reach and frequency
Forests are essential in maintaining healthy ecosystem interaction and biodiversity on Earth. They are in a key role in the fight against climate change since they can restore increasing carbon stocks. Hence, several national and international initiatives (including the UNFCCC Paris Agreement and the EU LULUCF Regulation) require regular reporting of forest biomass and carbon. Robust, reliable and transparent monitoring approaches of forest biomass and carbon are needed to respond to reporting requirements.
The Forest Carbon Monitoring project is developing and implementing a set of tools for reliable and cost-efficient monitoring of forest carbon stock based on satellite remote sensing approaches supported by in-situ datasets.
Spatially detailed data from large forest areas — also regions without proper forest inventory data.
Openly available satellite datasets used together with published monitoring methods.
Enabling high resolution mapping and monitoring of global forests.
Reaching global scale with frequent data acquisition and long-term standardized systems at low cost.
Last week, the FCM consortium had the opportunity to participate in the ‘Second Forum on Earth Observation for Carbon Markets’. This year, the forum was held in conjunction with the ‘EO for improving LULUCF Monitoring, reporting and verification’ meeting.
While waiting for our Colombian field crews to finish their work in the jungle, we would like to highlight why these kinds of field measurement campaigns are so important. Nowadays, with the increasing need for information on forest biomass to meet compliance and voluntary reporting requirements, many people look into […]
Perhaps one of the most exciting demonstrations to be conducted during the FCM continuation is the Colombian use case. The overall aim is to highlight the feasibility of the FCM methods to meet the requirements of the new Verra Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) for REDD+ projects.
