My Sustainable Forest provides geo-information products to help to improve the management of Forest Provisioning Services and Regulating Services.
- Six European countries
- Five climatic regions (Atlantic, Mediterranean, Alpine, Oceanic, Continental)
- SAR and Optical EO data and airborne LiDAR data
- In situ data: sound-wave wood quality measurements and ground meteorological and piezometric stations
- Socio-economic analytics.
My Sustainable Forest provides Earth Observation (EO) geo-information products supporting a variety of operations to improve the management of Forest Provisioning Services (Timber Production) and Regulating Services (Climate/Hydrologic Changes).
Application
Stakeholders within the silvicultural and wood market chains face outdated forest inventories, uncertain biomass counts, CO2 stocking and carbon accounting demands. My Sustainable Forest provides a specialised kit supporting operations from sustainable forest management procedures and the quality of wood entering sawmills and pulp mills, through to the assessment of vulnerability trends and planning for future climate change adaptation.
UK expertise
My Sustainable Forest is European Union H2020 project No. 776045. GMV Innovating solutions Ltd (GMV UK) is a British company with expertise in devising Space-based Applications and Technologies, as well as Robotics and Autonomy and Ground segment for EO and Telecoms.
The team at GMV are running analytics on datasets acquired from the Copernicus Data and Information Access Services (DIAS) which include Sentinel Missions data, LiDAR, airborne data, in-situ data, alongside local data sets provided by end users.
My Sustainable Forest enables the monitoring of parameters such as forest biomass and CO2 stocks/emissions, vegetation stress, forest disturbances (e.g. fire, wind, snow, pollution, defoliators) and supports adaptation of forest management practices to mitigate the effects of climate change in European forest ecosystems.