Eyes on the forests: how space is protecting the green lung of the planet. Live online illustrations on Thursday, October 3, 2025. We hope to see you there!
Following the success of the first ClimateSCOpe dedicated to the oceans, we are taking the opportunity of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 30) in Belém, Brazil, to dedicate this second edition to how the BIOMASS satellite mission and SCO projects are advancing forest monitoring and protection.
🗓️ Thursday, October 23, 2025, from 1:00 to 2:15 p.m. (UTC+2)
Programme
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Preamble: introduction to the European BIOMASS mission by Mathew Williams from the University of Edinburgh.
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TropiSCO: Thanks to this French project supported by CNES, the mapping platform tropisco.org allows users to view tropical deforestation from 2018 to the present day in near real time using radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite. The application currently covers nine countries (French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Gabon, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and the Brazilian Amazon).
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CarbonAtlas-THA: This Thai project supported by GISTDA aims to strengthen forest carbon monitoring, reporting, and verification systems in Thailand by integrating various advanced geospatial technologies. The initiative, which is part of Thailand's 20-year National Strategy, relies on Carbon Atlas, a centralized platform for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data on carbon stocks.
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CACAO: This Italian project, supported by ASI, is developing a web-based mapping platform that provides forest owners with the information they need to monitor forest management interventions in terms of carbon footprint, converting them into carbon credits. Thanks to cutting-edge technologies such as remote sensing and AI, CACAO can be scaled up globally.
