ForestPaths’ work on forest mapping was recently presented as part of this year’s Living Planet Symposium, which was held in the Austrian capital of Vienna between 23 and 27 June. Organised by the European Space Agency (ESA), the event is referred to as the single largest international conference dedicated to Earth observation. This year’s edition proceeded under the theme “From Observation to Climate Action and Sustainability for Earth", pushing the frontier of innovation beyond the planet’s orbit in pursuit of novel environmental solutions.

On 26 June, the symposium’s session “Land-atmosphere interactions: finding solutions for land-based mitigation and adaptation” provided an opportunity for several ForestPaths researchers to showcase the progress achieved in furthering scientific understanding of forest structures and disturbances via improved mapping repositories. Those were Dr. Alba Viana-Soto from the Technical University of Munich as well as Dr. Wanda De Keersmaecker and Ruben Van De Kerchove from VITO Remote Sensing. ForestPaths’ collaboration with the RECCAP-2 Climate Space and AI4Forest projects was also highlighted as the next iteration of the European Forest Disturbance Atlas is being prepared following its 2024 update.

You can discover ForestPaths’ vision and outputs as they relate to Earth observation on this page.