Summary
The EO4BK project is focused on the assessment of the opportunities for improved understanding and quantification of changes in the land use related carbon pools and fluxes, by incorporating EO information in BK models. This project will pave the way for a new generation of BK models that are fully driven by EO data, allowing them to run at much higher resolution than is the case nowadays (currently: 25 km to country level). It will also build the prototype of a new generation of BK model designed as a high-resolution and spatially explicit version of the existing OSCAR model with compatibility with EO data from the project outset. This prototype will focus on Europe and Brazil and will specifically investigate the effects of specific policy interventions in agriculture on emissions in the land use sector.
