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European Forest Downstream Services Improved Information on Forest Structure and Damages

1 Coordinator: JOANNEUM RESEARCH


Mathias Schardt, JOANNEUM Research, Co-ordinator EUFODOS: 1.1.2011 – 31.12.2013



Content

Introducing the Consortium, Users and User Executive Board

Objectives and Motivation

EO data, CS and Ancillary Data

Test Cases, Services and Products

Pan-European Concept



Consortium

JOANNEUM Research (JR), Austria, Project Co-ordinator

GAF AG, Germany

Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Finland

Department of Remote Sensing and Landscape Information System, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Sciences at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (ALU-FR), Germany

BlackBridge, formerly RapidEye (RE), Germany

European Academy of Research (EURAC), Italy

Remote Sensing Application Centre (ReSAC), Bulgaria

Environment Agency Austria (EAA), Austria Umweltbundesamt GmbH



EUFODOS User Executive Board

Austria - Styrian Forestry Board Germany - Thuringian State Institute for

Forest, Game and Fishery Poland - Local Forest Authority, Regional

Directorate of State Forests Wrocław Italy - Department of Forest Planning –

Autonomous Province of Bolzano Bulgaria – Executive Forestry Agency -

Council of Ministers Finland - Stora Enso Austria – Environment Agency Austria

EAA



Objectives of EUFODOS To develop sustainable Down Stream Services for the

effective assessment of forest damage and forest functional parameters at regional scale to an operational level based on GMES Land / Forest Core Products

Targets: Storm, fire, snow or insect calamities

Economic Functions and Protective Functions

The interaction between Forest Degradation and Functional Parameters of Forests



Remote Sensing Data

CosmoSkyMed Layer Stack

Copyright RapidEye

LIDAR nDSM

Copyright SPOTIMAGE

Landsat TM5

Copyright DIGITALGLOBE

RapidEye IRS P6 SPOT 5 IKONOS Quickbird Worldview2 Formosat2 Landsat MODIS TerraSAR-X TanDEM-X CosmoSkymed LIDAR



Core Service & Ancillary Data

European HR Forest Core Service Forest Area Tree Cover Density Map Forest Types Map

Digital Elevation Model SRTM, Aster GDEM, LIDAR DEM

GIS and Field Data User Forest GIS (available for state forest) Field measurements (bark beetle traps, snow

damaged areas, in-field measurements of tree height)

Topographic Maps

Airborne RS - Data Aerial Photographs (RGB and NIR) LIDAR

Foto: Joerg Ermert / ALU



Test Cases

In Temperate & Boreal Regions

In 7 Countries For 7 Users



Rush Service – Assessment of Storm damaged areas

Non-Rush Service – Assessment of damaged areas

Assessment and Monitoring of Forest Changes due to Forest Operations and Degradation

RapidEye Data, 2011

on request (bi-, annually, 2 to 3 years,...) 14 days to 2 months after EO data acquisition Optical data (e.g. RapidEye, Pleiades) MMU: 0,1 – 0,3 ha Thematic accuracy: > 90% Geometric accuracy: 5-10m

© J. Ermert, FeLis, Univ. Freiburg

14 days to 2 months after EO data acquisition Optical data (e.g. RapidEye, Pleiades) MMU: 0,1 – 0,3 ha Thematic accuracy: > 90% Geometric accuracy: 5-10m

RapidEye Data, 2012

© G. Ramminger

3 to 5 days after EO data acquisition (SAR based) MMU: 3 ha Thematic accuracy: > 80% Geometric accuracy: 10-20m

TerraSAR-X Data, 2012

Storm Damage - Thuringia

EUFODOS Final Review Meeting Brussels, 02.- 03. December 2013 02. December 2013



L1a: FVI_2012-03-25 L1b: FVI_2013-08-06

Insect Calamities - Brandenburg

FVI = Forest Vitality Index




Forest Fire Bulgaria - Blata Area

Data Used WorldView-2 (11 March 2011, 2m, Reference image) © DigitalGlobe, Inc.2011, provided by e-Geos S.p.A. RapidEye (11 April, 5m, Post even image) © RapidEye AG 2011 Formosat-2 (12 April, 2m, Post event image) © NSPO 2011, Distribution Spot Image S.A Aerial photo 2006

Vector Data Forest Management Plans 2007 Executive Forest Agency - Bulgaria




Droughts - South Tyrol

EOF analyses on MODIS NDVI time series



Forest Functional Parameters - Alpine Protective Forests Crown Coverage

Development Stages

Vertical Canopy Structure

Tree Height

Timber Volume

Forest Border Line

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Forest Functional Parameters - Alpine Protective Forests

Crown Coverage

Development Stages

Vertical Canopy Structure

Tree Height

Timber Volume

Forest Border Line



Forest Functional Parameters - Assessment of Storm Economic Impact

Asta Storm 30.7.2010/Finland Economic value of damaged growing stock

Storm Damage for Growing Stock in Stem Volume/Species

Parcel#1 2 3

Damage Pine 3165 2535 1783Logwood Spruce 461 939 915[m3] Birch 139 145 119Damage Pine 9318 6730 4588Pulp Spruce 965 1393 1306[m3] Birch 2157 1662 972

Storm Damage for Growing Stock in EUR/Species

Parcel#1 2 3

Damage Pine 320801 245395 170298[EUR] Spruce 42737 77133 74290

Birch 39468 31959 20069TOTAL 403006 354487 264657

Costs based on wood prices 2013

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VHR satellite estimate



19.06.2012

New developed EUFODOS Downstream Services focus on forest degradation issues with high relevance in Europe, e.g. storm damage

Achievements can be transferred to a Pan-European Level for RUSH and NON-RUSH services

To provide information on damage in forests for all member states in a uniform approach as a new Core Service

Pan-European Monitoring Service on Forest Damage



19.06.2012

A new EU Forest Strategy: for forests and the forest-based sector (COM (2013) 659 final

European Commission Green Paper (COM (2010) 66 final) is stating the need for more harmonised and readily available information about EU forests

EEA, focussing on environmental issues of European relevance and acting for the European Commission in support of European policies has a strong need for information on forests and status

EFI (namely EFICENT and OEF) is developing the European Forest Risk Facility System (FRISK GO)

Related European Policies



PAN-EUROPEAN FOREST MONITORING SERVICE (actuality: 1 year)

Continuous Service with Annual Update Phase 1: Hotspot identification

Annual Change Layer (SP), without change interpretation Data Sources GIO HR Forest Layer and Core Image data Annual SENTINEL 2 / RapidEye Pan-European data coverage

Basic Change Map Hotspot generation by aggregation of changed areas Hotspot Verification (MS)

Phase 2: damage identification in verified hotspots

Auxiliary data provision (MS) Detailed analysis based on dense time series (SP) Data Sources: SENTINEL2 type data (SENTINEL2, RE, SPOT 5/6, IRS,

Landsat 8) Product verification and enhancement (MS)



Summary

Various and diverse DSS Temperate to boreal ecosystems

Storm, insect, snow, fire to functional forest parameters

Market oriented services developed

Consortium and users show high flexibility No storm events within the 3 years high flexibility of the SPs

Cooperation of EUFODOS Partners and Users can be considered as harmonized and fruitful cooperation !



www.eufodos.info/

19.06.2012

Project co-funded by the European Commission Seventh Framework Cooperation Programme

FP7-SPACE-2010-1 Small and medium-scale focused research

Grant Agreement no: 262786

http://www.eufodos.info/



Lot 5

Lot 3

Lot 2

Lot 1

Lot 4

GIO-Land and EUFODOS GAF and Partners (e.g. Joanneum

Research) have been selected for Lot 2 and 3 implementation

VTT is participating in Lot 1 production Products: HRL Forest + Imperviousness Project duration: 3 years (2012-2014) Countries, partially involved in product

verification and/or enhancement 6th Lot: HRLs Grassland, Wetland,

Water (EEA-39) Blackbridge (RapidEye) is participating


GMES Initial Operations (2012 – 2014) – Land Monitoring Services



GIO-Land HR Forest Layer

HR Forest Core Layer

Tree cover density (20m and 100m) Tree cover density values from 1-100 %

Forest Type (20m) consisting of 2 layers

Dominant leaf type: coniferous and broadleaved MMU of 0.5 ha and 10% tree cover density threshold applied

Support layer: Maps trees under agricultural use and in urban context from CLC and imperviousness 2009

Forest Type (100m) Coniferous, broadleaved and mixed. Trees under agricultural use and urban context from additional support layer removed




CS demands from Degradation Mapping

Demand GIO HR Forest Layer

Coverage Full EU-coverage

Full EU-coverage

Accuracy High Medium - ?

Timeliness and update frequency

Regular (yearly) 3-years period (incremental)

Spatial resolution MMU of < 0.5 ha No MMU

Metadata Metadata of pro-cessing & input data

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