SLU - Forest Remote Sensing

Five new FORWARDS-funded projects to characterise European forest disturbances kicked off — Forwards CAEFD, CE-ReDiFor, HALO-FARM, Image4Dist, TREAD

🏆🌲 Here are five more projects which were awarded #ForwardsEU grants to study the characterisation of European forest disturbances

CAEFD, CE-ReDiFor, HALO-FARM, Image4Dist, TREA: discover them in our news release 🔗 bit.ly/4m6ZpKf

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Testing software updates for our Leica RTC360 terrestrial laser scanner and made a nice 3D model of the SLU building, using the amazing Potree WebGL point cloud viewer developed at Vienna University of Technology. Our terrestrial laser scanner has been funded by the Kempe Foundation.

New deadline for #ForwardsEU grants❗

Calls G-03-2025 and G-04-2025 deadline application has been extended to 21 Sept (21:00 UTC)📣

Both aim to link ground & remote sensing data to assess climate impacts on trees and forests.

Apply at 👉 efi.int/grants-train...

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Modern tools help us collect data from the forest. In terrestrial laser scanning, navigating the scanned areas of the plot can be checked afterwards on a map and a 3D-scene to ensure that the planned trees are visible in the image. But the GPS track can get lost and we need to correct the position.

We coordinate @forwards-project.bsky.social which will set up the ForestWard Observatory to improve the resilience of European forests by providing timely information on them. Watch @rubenvalpue.bsky.social speak about the project and its goals.

PhD Researcher: Forest Regrowth rates and carbon accumulation in forests and forest reserves in Europe (NextgenCarbon)

📢 Vacancy open in #NextGenCarbon! PhD position in carbon dynamics in European forests and forest reserves at Wageningen University & Research. A great opportunity to work for our project with wonderful colleagues. www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

Professor @rubenvalpue.bsky.social spoke at the @esa.int Living Planet Symposium yesterday, presenting @nextgencarbon.bsky.social and discussing how it addresses the current main challenges in carbon budget reconciliation.

New Calls for Grants open! — Forwards G-03-2025 and G-04-2025

New #ForwardsEU grant calls open! 🚨

🔹 G-03-2025: Linking stand-level information and remote sensing for climate impact forest monitoring

🔹 G-04-2025: Providing temporally resolved ecosystem-level information on the effects of climatic drivers in near real-time.

Apply: bit.ly/4nyj6wn

Preparations for the first annual #NextGenCarbon meeting in Paris at the beginning of June are in full swing! Our project management team at @remote-sensing-slu.bsky.social is packing and checking the printed materials for the meeting, and making sure that everything is ready for travel.

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Boreal tree species classification using airborne laser scanning data annotated with harvester production reports, and convolutional neural networks This study explores the potential of spatially explicit Harvester Production Reports (HPRs) for automatic annotation of Aerial Laser Scanning (ALS) da…

📢 New publication from our Division! 🛰️ Raul de Paula Pires is the lead author of "Boreal tree species classification using airborne laser scanning data annotated with harvester production reports, and convolutional neural networks" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today, on the International Day for Biological Diversity, we highlight the role of remote sensing in monitoring biodiversity. @rubenvalpue.bsky.social is a member of GEO BON network dedicated to improving the acquisition, coordination, and delivery of biodiversity information geobon.org

We are also on LinkedIn! If you haven't found us yet, follow us: @NextGenCarbon‬ www.linkedin.com/company/next...

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On Friday, the Swedish Minister for Climate and the Environment Romina Pourmokhtari visited our remote sensing lab, where she met with Professor Ruben Valbuena and Research Engineers Mikael Egberth and Juha Niemi who explained the minister about the remote sensing methods our division develops.

Professor Ruben Valbuena's professorial inauguration lecture Measuring the complexity of forests by firing laser beams from planes and satellites will take place on Thursday 8 May at 15:50 in Studion, Undervisningshuset, Uppsala and online. The link will be available here: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Our researcher Langning Huo's docent lecture on Remote Sensing for Forest Health Monitoring: Innovations and Future Directions will take place on 6 May 2025 at 13:30 in P O Bäckström's lecture hall in Umeå and in Zoom. You will find the Zoom link on this page: www.slu.se/en/ew-calend...

NextGenCarbon is online! We coordinate this project that has just launched its website and social media channels. Give it a "follow" to stay up to date on all the exciting future work!

Towards more flexible and improved European Forest Information and its governance structures | European Forest Institute

The EFINET project report "Towards more flexible and improved European Forest Information and its governance. Summary and take-home messages of the EFINET project." is now available, very relevant to the proposed EU forest monitoring law. A great collaboration!
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