The WorldForest activity will develop methodologies in support to Adaptive and Sustainable Forest Management targeting the new EU Forest Strategy and other EU regulations and directives related to forestry and responding also to global needs from UN organizations (e.g., FAO, UNFCCC) like the Sustainable Development Goal 15, the Paris Agreement, the Global Biodiversity Framework and the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use. This will also contribute to the ESA engagement with GFOI and CEOS AFOLU.
The project shall provide innovative information products / indicators and related tools on a number of key forest parameters with a dynamic approach, prototyping to respond to on-demand scenarios. Examples of products and indicators are: forest types and structure, forest disturbance, forest fires burned area and restoration indices, vulnerability risk indices.
The project shall take full benefit from the magnitude of space-borne sensors (e.g., Copernicus Sentinels, Earth Explorers and other), meteorological data and modelling. The project shall leverage on state-of-the-art existing datasets (e.g., classification maps and methods, CCI datasets) and integrate open non-EO data as necessary. The project shall explore enhancement opportunities with respected synergies of commercial EO data.
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