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EO for Carbon Markets Forum 2023

October 3, 2023 @ 14:00 - October 5, 2023 @ 12:30 UTC+2
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

  BACKGROUND Since the creation of the first Emission Trade System in 2005 (EU ETS), carbon markets  (voluntary or compliance) have evolved and become an important mechanism to incentivize the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and combat climate change. Carbon credits are issued for each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) that is reduced or removed …

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BURNING QUESTIONS ON CARBON EMISSIONS FROM FIRES (BURNQUEST)

Prime company: Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NWO-I) (NL)

Landscape fires, whether natural or human-induced, have a key impact on the Earth system via the release of pollutants, greenhouse gases and aerosols, affecting human health and climate. Over the next decades their role may increase related to drier and warmer conditions, exacerbating biome shifts and lowering biodiversity. In addition, this may provide one of …

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Using a data cube to monitor forest loss in the Amazon

Billions of radar images over the entire Amazon basin have been converted into a data cube and processed to help a dynamic detection of forest loss. This work, performed within the Sentinel-1 for Science: Amazonas project, uses a space-time data cube design (also known as StatCubes), where statistical information relevant to identify deforestation is extracted …

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Building a bridge: estimating carbon dioxide emissions using satellites

A team of researchers estimated the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from coal-fired power plants and other major anthropogenic point sources in the South African Highveld region using space-based data. The results indicate that CO2 emissions can be obtained also in challenging cases where the plumes from multiple sources overlap. The new publication characterizes CO2 emissions …

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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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LAND SURFACE CARBON CONSTELLATION STUDY

Prime company: LUND UNIVERSITY (SE)

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. In the natural system the balance among carbon in the atmosphere, the land and the ocean is regulated through fluxes between these three …

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MethaneCAMP

Prime company: FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (FI)

Climate change is one of the greatest societal challenges of the 21st century. The dominant source of global warming is the increase of anthropogenic greenhouse gases in the Earth`s atmosphere. atmosphere. The two most important of those species are carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4). Together they account for ~82% of the anthropogenic radiative forcing. …

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IMITATE – Introducing Machine-learning Into Targeted Analysis for Terrestrial Ecosystems

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (GB)

The proposed IMITATE project aims to address the following questions: How well can machine learning methods emulate physical process-based land surface models, focused over Europe? Can explainable AI techniques provide new insights into process understanding when combining land surface models and Earth Observation data Are the learnt relationships between the modeled inputs and outputs consistent …

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