Objective
Climate change is believed to be a function of concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs), particularly carbon dioxide. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has the objective to stabilise the GHGs concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Forests act as carbon reservoirs by storing large amounts of carbon in trees, understory vegetation, the forest floor, and soil. Changes in forests, such as the trees growth, can remove carbon from the atmosphere. Forests thus can act as a sink for absorbing emissions from human or other natural sources. Conversely, when human activities (e. g. logging, industrial pollutions) or impact of natural factors (e. g fires, insects) degrade a forest, both the reservoir and the sink potential are damaged, and the forest can become a substantial source of carbon.
From this perspective the role of the boreal forests, and particularly of world's largest Siberian forests, is essential in this sense, but still has to be better clarified. Accurate and regularly updated information regarding boreal forest dynamic is crucial to quantify GHG fluxes and to predict possible scenarios of climate changes. Remote sensing is most realistic way to obtain data regarding forests dynamic within vast geographical area such as the entire boreal forest biome of Northern Eurasia. In spite of the importance of the task and the fact that numerous scientific investigations have been carried out using remote sensing techniques, the comprehensive methods to collect information regarding the geographical extend and magnitude of disturbances and post-disturbances dynamic of forest at the sub-continental scale and in terms, which is well compatible with existing models of GHG fluxes estimation and climate change prediction are not developed yet and still remains to be issue of day. FORCE is aimed to fill this gap and will allow us to develop such methods based on intensive use of EO technique
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology environmental engineering remote sensing
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture horticulture arboriculture
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
- natural sciences biological sciences zoology entomology
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic changes
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FP6-2002-MOBILITY-7
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IIF - Marie Curie actions-Incoming International Fellowships
Coordinator
JENA
Germany
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