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Third High-Level Expert Group Meeting on Big Data 2025

July 8 - July 10
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

In a rapidly shifting geopolitical context—marked by trade tensions, challenging energy transitions landscape, and policy uncertainty—the need for high-quality environmental data is greater than ever. Digitized, transparent, and independently verifiable environmental metrics can serve as stabilizing assets. High-integrity environmental data is foundational to understanding the state of the global environment and to producing science-based tools …

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SUP – Advancing the MRV of European Forests Entering Nature Markets (FOCIS)

Prime company: NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY (NPL) (GB)

The objective is to develop and demonstrate a carbon information product for Europe to support carbon sequestration projects and carbon markets, which is in line and timely with respect to the European Green Deal and the overall effort within Europe to achieve a net-zero carbon balance by 2050. This encompasses a critical need to accurately …

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EOWetMet: EO‐Driven Insights for Advancing Arctic Wetland and Lake Methane Emissions Monitoring

Prime company: C-CORE (CA)

Arctic wetlands and lakes are integral components of the Arctic region’s methane emissions, primarily due to their association with permafrost and the unique environmental conditions they provide for methane production. Wetlands, encompassing various types, such as bogs, fens, and marshes, are particularly abundant in the Arctic landscape (Albuhaisi et al. 2023). These wetland ecosystems thrive …

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3rd ESA Carbon Science Cluster Meeting (POSTPONED)

January 28 - January 29

MEETING POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Background The carbon cycle is central to the Earth system, being inextricably coupled with climate, the water cycle, nutrient cycles and the production of biomass by photosynthesis on land and in the oceans. Understanding the patterns of exchanges of carbon between the atmosphere, ocean and land and the processes associated …

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Extreme heat weakens land’s power to absorb carbon

A recent study, outcome of the research under the Carbon-RO1: NRT Extremes project, highlights a significant decline in the land carbon sink in 2023, a year marked by record-breaking global temperatures and severe climate events. The research team found that the CO₂ growth rate soared to 3.37 parts per million (ppm) at Mauna Loa Observatory, …

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Scientists

Thin cool surface skin boosts ocean’s carbon uptake

The ocean annually absorbs about a quarter of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. A recently published paper, partially outcome of the Atlantic Meridional Transect Ocean Flux from satellite campaign (AMT4OceanSatFlux) project, reveals that accounting for vertical temperature gradients near the ocean surface significantly increases estimates of oceanic CO₂ absorption, potentially impacting global carbon budgets. …

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Terrestrial Carbon Community Assimilation System (TCCAS) training

October 7, 2024 - October 8, 2024
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

Join for an in-depth exploration of terrestrial carbon cycles, featuring expert lectures and practical sessions. This event, organised by ESA’s Carbon Science Cluster, AIMES, and the Terrestrial Carbon Community Assimilation System (TCCAS) project team is tailored for a diverse audience, from students to senior researchers/professors, providing valuable insights and hands-on experience in a collaborative environment. …

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ESA CARBON SCIENCE CLUSTER: RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES 2 – THEME 1: LAND USE DYNAMICS AND THE CARBON CYCLE (EO4BK)

Prime company: INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS (AT)

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 …

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ESA CARBON SCIENCE CLUSTER: RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES 2 – THEME 2: CARBON DATA ENQUIRY AND BENCHMARKING (EOLINCS)

Prime company: MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY (DE)

The EOLINCS promotes a community effort towards an enhanced multi-mission assessment of the terrestrial carbon cycle at resolutions in space and time compatible with decision making by improving the access to the Earth Observation (EO) data for the wider carbon scientific community so that key questions related to scale, representativeness, consistency, reliability, as well as …

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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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