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 to them such as CO2 …
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, …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The EO4CSM project aims to develop a methodology that can improve the national monitoring of carbon (C) sequestration of agricultural soils for the Netherlands. The methodology is based on a dynamic carbon turnover model, RothC, that will be coupled with Earth Observation (EO) data at parcel level, which provides accurate and up to date information …
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are organizing a Coastal Blue Carbon from Space Forum, which will take place at the International Space Science Institute (ISSI, Bern, Switzerland), on 14-17 May 2024. Coastal Blue Carbon describes the carbon stored in vegetated coastal and marine ecosystems, mostly by seagrasses, mangroves, …
The ocean plays a central role in modulating the Earth’s carbon cycle. Monitoring how the ocean carbon cycle is changing is fundamental to managing climate change. Satellite remote sensing is currently our best tool for viewing the ocean surface globally and systematically, at high spatial and temporal resolutions, and the past few decades have seen …
In the next decades, population growth is expected to amplify current pressures on critical resources such as fresh water or food, intensify the stress on land and marine ecosystems and increase environmental pollution and its impacts on health and biodiversity. Global warming and the increasing impacts of climate change, especially on most vulnerable populations, will …
