Forests play an important role in biodiversity conservation, terrestrial carbon cycling, and other important ecosystem services for humankind. Ecosystem service assessments are on the contrary often limited by spatial and spatiotemporal data to which Earth Observation Systems (EOS) has many features to overcome.
Dr. Melvin Lippe from Thünen Institute of Forestry (WF) chaired a session on ‘Using earth observation systems (EOS) to support ecosystem service assessments in forest landscapes’ in the ESP Asia Conference 2021 which was organised by Nagasaki University, Japan and the regional ESP Asia office. The session was co-hosted by Ferdinand Peters, and Ruben Weber (both WF).
Oral presentations highlighted novel ways in which EOS can be used to analyze, assess, and monitor ecosystem services at landscape and larger spatial scales, as well as how citizen science approaches can be a further important component in this field of research.
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