Erfassung borealer Torfökosysteme und Schäden durch Feuer anhand von Satellitendaten, ESA / Internationale Kooperation

Das Projekt-Team

DAs Projekt-Team besteht aus Vexcel (Canada, Projektleitung), Synoptics (Niederlande), Wetlands International (Niederlande) and Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH (Deutschland).

 

The GlobWetland Project is conceived as a user-oriented project, where the final Information Service should provide a clear response to specific user needs. Therefore, the project is built up around the information requirements provided by a User Group made up of the National Authorities responsible for the implementation of the Ramsar Convention in several countries worldwide. This set of information needs represents the core of the project and the basis for the development of the GlobWetland Information Service, which should be implemented, validated and assessed for a representative set of wetland areas (mainly Ramsar Sites) proposed by the members of the User Group in their respective countries.

RSS GmbH developed a prototype product for "Peatland Fire Scar mapping". The sites of investigation for product and service definition were boreal peatlands located near Moscow, Russia. RSS analyzed optical imagery taken before and after a large hazard in July/August 2002. The peat fires of 2002 were considered as the most severe of the last 30 years. Moscow vanished in haze for days with thousands of people suffering from severe respiratory problems.

Project website:www.globwetland.org/

European Space Agency (ESA):
www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMT952DU8E_environment_0.html