Objective
Climate change is believed to be a function of concentrations of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere. When forest grows it can act as a sink for absorbing emissions from human or natural sources. Conversely, when human activities or impacts of natural factors degrade a forest, both the reservoir and the sink potential are damaged, and the forest can become a source of carbon emissions. From this perspective the role of boreal forests, and particularly the Siberian forests, is essential, and has to be better understood. Accurate information on forest disturbances is crucial to quantify those carbon fluxes. The SibFORD project aims at the development of methods and tools to estimate carbon emissions induced by forest disturbances using Earth observation (EO) techniques in combination with in-situ data and contemporary models, and to improve the understanding of human impacts on the carbon balance in boreal ecosystems through analysis of multi-annual integrated land surface-model / remote sensing datasets. The SibFORD will be carried out within the Central Siberia region, which regularly experiences disturbances by fire and logging. A spatially explicit assessment of the carbon emissions caused by disturbances requires a number of studies and developments focussing on improving current methods of estimating relevant forest cover characteristics and disturbance parameters from remote sensing techniques, the adaptation of existing models for assimilation of EO data derived parameters, development of relevant databases and GIS tools. The project studies will involve use of multi-resolution satellite data (e.g. SPOT-Vegetation, Terra-MODIS, Landsat-ETM), as well as available or foreseen products (e.g. ESA Globcover and EC JRC GLC 2000 land cover maps, SIBERIA project forest biomass map) to characterise forest cover and disturbances and their impact on the carbon balance. The SibFORD will result in (i) advanced numerical integration methods to use multi-sensor EO data describing forest characteristics and disturbances with land surface models, (ii) a harmonised and up-to-date forest database and a multi-annual disturbances database for Central Siberia, and (iii) new automated GIS tools for estimating disturbance-induced carbon emissions and the analysis of human impacts that can be used by regional foresters and scientists. The developed tools and data will be made available to public organisations, NGO's and the international scientific community. The satellite data analysis methods and GIS tools will be generated with the perspective utilisation in the years to follow, especially for Kyoto protocol implementation phases and the post-Kyoto process. Close links to EC's and ESA's GMES initiative and to international programmes such as GOFC-GOLD, NEESPI and IGBP have been established through the project team members and will continue to be an active link throughout duration of SibFORD.
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Germany
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