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BELOW, LITTER & SHRUB BIOMASS DENSITY MAPPING COMBINING OPTICAL, LIDAR AND SAR EARTH OBSERVATION DATA (BLS-BIOMASS)

Prime company: UNINOVA – Instituto de Desenvolvime (PT)

Development of a novel methodology capable of mapping the Belowground Biomass Density (BGBD), Litter Biomass Density (LBD), and Shrub Biomass Density (SBD) combining Earth Observation (EO) data from the Sentinel and ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 missions. Large-scale mapping of these biomass pools is still not done, unlike the Aboveground Biomass Density (AGBD), since it usually relies in Airborne …

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FUELITY

Prime company: ECMWF (GB)

Aim This project aims to provide a comprehensive, long-term analysis of fuel characteristics to understand the role of vegetation in controlling the changing trends of fire activity on the planet. To achieve this goal, Fuelity will leverage the extensive information available from ESA-funded missions that have improved biomass estimations. It will also complement several other …

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Global vegetation monitoring from active and passive microwave sensors (GVMAP)

Prime company: GAMMA REMOTE SENSING AG (CH)

Vegetation is a central component of the Earth’s system, governing surface water exchanges and constituting one of the largest terrestrial carbon reservoirs. Ongoing disturbances, whether natural or human-induced, combined with the impacts of changing climate, induce rapid alterations on a global scale. Accurate and consistent assessments of vegetation status are imperative to meet the needs …

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Reference data for Improved Sar-based fOresT waTer Observations (RISOTTO)

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE (NL)

During drought, water deficit depletes tree water content, which can lead to water stress mortality, vulnerability to wildfires and increased susceptibility to insect and pathogen attacks. Widespread tree mortality could be triggered by increased drought frequency, such as expected in Europe, which can lead to disrupting the provision of important ecosystem services and increased carbon …

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FAST-EO (Fostering Advancements in Foundation Models via Unsupervised and Self-Supervised Learning for Downstream Tasks in Earth Observation)

Prime company: DLR – GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER (DE)

Fostering Advancements in Foundation Models via Unsupervised and Self-Supervised Learning for Downstream Tasks in Earth ObservationThe objectives will be achieved through the validation of the proposed FMs (Multimodal Foundation Models) on suitable downstream applications that address global societal challenges. More specifically, the validation of the proposed FM architectures will be conducted on six main use …

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11th International Workshop on Science and Applications of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry and BIOMASS Workshop

June 19, 2023 - June 23, 2023
Espace Vanel, 1 Allée Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Toulouse, France, France

Background The European Space Agency is organising the 11th International Workshop on Science and Applications of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry, PolInSAR & Biomass. The workshop will be held at Espaces Vanel Toulouse, France  on the following dates: 11th PolInSAR & Biomass Workshop: 19 – 23 June 2023 The event will be preceded by the 7th ESA Advanced Course …

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BiomAP

Prime company: GAMMA REMOTE SENSING AG (CH)

The BiomAP project aims to Integrate active and passive microwave data towards a novel global record of aboveground biomass maps. This comprises an end-to-end assessment of active and passive microwave observations at coarse spatial resolution at the longest wavelengths available in space to generate global AGB estimates. This work will eventually provide a 5-years baseline, …

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Phytoplankton and fisheries under regional warming in the global oceans – POSEIDON

Prime company: NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSIT (GR)

POSEIDON aims to understand the response of ocean ecosystems to climate warming and extreme events (e.g., marine heatwaves). Long-term trends (> 23 years) in phytoplankton ecological indicators (biomass, size structure and phenology) will be analysed in different regions, encompassing a range of conditions found in the global oceans. POSEIDON will further investigate the spatiotemporal variability …

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Impacts of PYROgenic aerosols on PLANKTON ecosystems (PYROPLANKTON)

Prime company: Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) (ES)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Joan Llort. In recent years, exceptionally large wildfires have been recorded in Australia, California, the Mediterranean region, and the Arctic. While there exists an established research effort on how Climate Change is leading these megafires and on how they are affecting land ecosystems, recent observations show that …

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Monitoring, Measurement, Reporting and Verification System for Cocoa sector in the Dominican Republic

Prime company: GMV NSL LTD (GB)

The MRV4C project, developing a Monitoring, Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) System for cocoa agroforestry in the Dominican Republic (DR) was a 1-year activity funded by the European Space Agency through the Open Call funding opportunity, addressing activity line 6, “EO for Sustainable Development”, of the ESA EO SCIENCE FOR SOCIETY programme. The aim of …

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