Imagine having a high-tech security camera in space that watches over entire forests. Instead of people walking through woods to find sick trees or fire risks, this system uses satellites to spot trouble automatically. It's like a monthly health check-up for nature that tells managers exactly where to send help before a small problem becomes a disaster.
Forest managers struggle to detect insect outbreaks, wildfires, and windthrow early enough to prevent massive economic loss. Manual inspection is too slow and expensive for the scale of European forests.
A monthly satellite-based health monitoring service and high-fidelity forest cover maps. It includes ML models trained on ground-truth data and an AWS-based processing pipeline.
If you are an insurance provider dealing with unpredictable claims from windthrow and wildfires — this project developed satellite monitoring tools that detect risks early. This allows for better risk assessment and potentially reduces payouts for the €15B annual loss caused by insect outbreaks.
If you are a timber company dealing with the loss of valuable wood due to bark-beetles — this project developed high-fidelity forest maps that identify outbreaks. This enables you to allocate resources efficiently for timely intervention and save your crop.
If you are a carbon auditor dealing with the fact that CO2 sequestration decreases by over 4850M tons yearly due to forest loss — this project developed a monthly health monitoring service. You can now verify the actual health and carbon storage capacity of forests using satellite data.
Based on available project data, the specific pricing is not listed, but the project aims to provide 'affordable' and 'low-cost' remote sensing tools for forest managers.
Yes, the project is developing European-wide high fidelity forest cover maps using Copernicus satellite imagery, indicating a continental scale.
Based on available project data, the licensing terms are not specified, but the project involves a consortium of 10 partners including 7 industry entities.
The system provides a monthly health monitoring service, allowing managers to act quickly and allocate resources for timely intervention.
The project has already implemented a pipeline to sync collected field data with Timbtrack via an AWS infrastructure.
The consortium is heavily industry-driven, with 70% of the 10 partners being industrial entities (including 4 SMEs). This high industry ratio, combined with a coordinator like AXA Climate, suggests the project is focused on commercial viability and practical application rather than pure academic research.
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