Building upon scientific advances in COST E4, 39, 43, USEWOOD, FORSYS, ORCHESTRA; the networks ENFIN, EFFIS, SOSIN; the FP7 EUFODOS, S2BIOM, INTEGRAL, SIMWOOD, FIRE PARADOX, the project DIABOLO (Distributed, integrated and harmonised forest information for bioeconomy outlooks) involved over 100 experts from 25 European countries that provided new methodologies for more accurate, harmonized and timely forest information used for the EU policy processes, international reporting obligations, forest administration and forest planning as well as for global monitoring systems such as REDD+, FLEGT and UNFF.
In particular DIABOLO did:
i) clearly identify the demands for and gaps in the provision of forest data and information for different political levels (WP1).
ii) develop new methods and models to produce European wide harmonised data and information on growing stock, biomass and carbon, based on NFI field data and high-resolution remote sensing data, and to produce an innovative multisource system for providing up-to-date estimates on the state and changes in European forest ecosystems (WP2).
iii) provide a holistic analysis of the NFIs as multipurpose data sources and to improve current methods and input information for delivering harmonised indicators (WP3).
iv) improve forest disturbance monitoring systems at regional, national and European scale by using new European satellite data (e.g. Sentinel-1 and 2), thus providing near real time information on forest disturbances (WP4).
v) improved national capacities for biomass supply modelling and analysing trade-offs between biomass supply and other ecosystem products and services, as well as showed potential of 23 European NFIs to provide distributed, integrated and harmonised forest information ) (WP5)
vi) increase the impact of the project outcomes among the target audiences and stakeholders by disseminating results through WP-specific end-user panels, regional workshops and a high-level international advisory group (WP 6).
vii) implement and maintain an efficient management structure, including financial management, to coordinate the work and timing of the deliverables and contributions of the partners, to insure interaction among the WPs (WP7).
