Ongoing climate change is on a of the big challenges for the maintainance of productive forests. Climatic exterme events like drought, heat waves, storms and the acompanying occurrence of pathogens require a monitoring of forest development and an adaptation of forest and forest management.

Expansion of ecological, silvicultural and technical knowledge of forest fires

As an interface between remote sensing experts and forest stakeholders, forest owners, forest authorities and enterprises, research institutions and companies, the Copernicus Network Office Forest supports, advises and networks all stakeholders who use or would like to use remote sensing data and services.

Monitoring and forecasting possibilities of storm damage in forests

Product development for continuous, cross-scale product Vitality and forest damage analysis by means of multisensory Remote sensing data and artificial intelligence

The Intensive Forest Monitoring (Level II) is performed within selected forest sites (case studies). Data on relevant parameters are collected periodically or even continuously in order to describe status and development of forest ecosystems.

Study on the use of UAVs in forest monitoring

Crossing scales and disciplines to identify global trends in tree mortality as indicator of forest health

Crossing scales and disciplines to identify global trends in tree mortality as indicator of forest health