OEMC project use case: EU-rapid forest disturbance monitoring tool
- Creators
- Wageningen University & Research
Description
European forests are facing an upwards trend in disturbance occurrence from (a mix of) natural and anthropogenic sources (Seidl & Senf, 2024). Current remote sensing-based monitoring systems provide yearly updates at 30m resolution using optical data only.
We have developed a 10-m forest disturbance alerting and characterization tool for Europe at 2/3 day revisit rate using radar-based Sentinel-1 data. This data, when combined with optical-based Sentinel-2 data, will allow for the separation between different human and natural forest disturbance types. This will support the EU forest management efforts (e.g. JRC) and climate law efforts (e.g. Green deal, EU Forest Strategy for 2030). Different EU stakeholders will be served incl. country cases.
Stakeholder needs:
- Forest disturbance maps and alert characterization with fine spatial detail and at high temporal frequency, through a web interface and API.
- Open source: use of the solution should be free and open and the code should be made available via a dedicated API.
- Potential porting of the system to a JRC-housed system should be possible, and integration with JRC datasets
Planned implementation:
- Adaptation of existing forest disturbance system (RADD) for European conditions and development of a use case in Estonia.
- Expansion and implementation of the alerting system to the rest of Europe for the 2020-2023 period (inclusive) at 10m pixel spacing and +-3 day revisit interval.
- Integration of radar-based alerts with optically-based disturbance detection systems to improve potential for characterization of disturbance sources.
Recorded talks (ordered chronologically):
"Assessing forest disturbance dynamics and drivers using radar satellite data" by Johannes Reiche, Open-Earth-Monitor — Global Workshop 2024;