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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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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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CARBON-RO: An Earth Observation framework For Carbon Sequestration Monitoring (EO4CSM)

Prime company: STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH (NL)

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 …

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Coastal Blue Carbon from Space Forum

May 14, 2024 - May 17, 2024
International Space Science Institute (ISSI), Hallerstrasse 6
Bern, Switzerland

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, …

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SCOPE

Prime company: Plymouth Marine Laboratory (GB)

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 …

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