EO4RESILIENCE

The EO4Resilience project aims to develop innovative Earth Observation (EO)-based biodiversity indicators to assess forest resilience to drought. By leveraging data from hyperspectral and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) missions, the project seeks to establish a set of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) to monitor and better understand the role of biodiversity in resilience to environmental stress. The technical objectives include creating representative datasets, developing EO-based solutions to assess forest ecosystem resilience, validating EBVs with field data, and implementing a prototype software. The project is also aligned with the aim of preparing users for the upcoming Copernicus Expansion missions,  namely CHIME and ROSE-L, under the Sentinel Users Preparation (SUP) initiative.

Key stakeholders include environmental organizations such as WWF and myclimate, forest certification bodies such as PEFC and FSC, park authorities such as Parco Ticino, research institutions such as WSL and Tetis-INRAE, and the insurance sector represented by SCOR. These stakeholders will contribute to validating the developed products and will benefit from new solutions for sustainable forest management and biodiversity conservation