Conferences
28–29 September 2021, Online
Forest Ecosystems in the Conditions of Climate Change: Biological Productivity and Remote Sensing
The conference will bring together researchers to address the issues of reforestation, monitoring and remote sensing of forests, explore and discuss opportunities and challenges related to forest ecosystems in the conditions of climate change. Participants will focus on new research-based solutions, good practices, processing of remote sensing data and analysis techniques, advances in mitigation and adaptation activities in global environmental initiatives.
Contributions are welcome on any aspect of modern forest science, including empirical, theoretical and practical applications. The conference is held in the framework of two international projects: GIS and Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forestry and Ecology (SUFOGIS, Erasmus+) and Environmental Monitoring and Assessment of Land Use / Land Cover Change Impact on Ecological Security Using Geospatial Technologies (GEMOECO, BRICS).
As more scientific information about global warming accumulates, climate change is emerging as perhaps the greatest environmental challenge of the 21st century (FAO). On the global level forest ecosystems play a major role in climate change: they remove and store carbon from the atmosphere in their biomass, soils and products; when managed sustainably, they produce wood fuels as a benign alternative to fossil fuels; and provide cost-effective mitigation solutions. Over the past four decades, the use of space-borne sensor data provided unique advances for professional community to estimate forest ecosystems. Remote sensing techniques become unprecedented alternative option to expensive and time consuming field measures in monitoring of forest ecosystems over large and remote geographic areas. While essential progress has been achieved in the field, there remains a critical need for integrated understanding of the resilience and vulnerability of the forest ecosystems at the regional and global scale. The conference is aimed at promoting the exchange of new research ideas and practices on the use of remote sensing in estimation of forest ecosystems and tackling the issues of climate change.
