en: Participation of the GEOS-EUDR and RiMoDi projects in the Living Planet Symposium 2025 in Vienna

A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.

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WF Forestry

Juliana Freitas Beyer, Fatemé Ghafarian and Melvin Lippe attended Living Planet Symposium organized by European Space Agency (ESA) hosted during 22.- 27.06.2025 at the Vienna Conference Center.

Group photo with colleagues from the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE) and colleagues from the Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems. From left to right: Niklas Langner (BLE), Katja Oehmichen (TI Forest Ecosystems), Juliana Freitas Beyer, Stefanie Nadler (BLE), Fatemé Ghafarian, Melvin Lippe

Conference area with interactive applications and meeting points

Juliana Freitas Beyer and Fatemé Gafarian presented their recent GEOS-EUDR (Are Freely Accessible Global Forest Maps Suitable as Reference Tools for EUDR Compliance in Deforestation Monitoring?) and RiMoDi (From GEE to CODE‑DE: Transforming Deforestation Monitoring for EUDR Compliance and Global Forest Protection) project output at the symposium which was attended by 6.900 participants from 122 countries.

Both contributions were held as part of the session on “Earth Observation in support of the Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products”. The over 100 attending session participants underscore the urgency and value of these efforts in ensuring EUDR compliance and promoting deforestation-free supply chains. Both projects are actively contributing to the operationalization of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), supporting national competent authorities, operators and other relevant stakeholders with practical remote sensing-based tools for risk assessment, monitoring, and verification.