The European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) has been established jointly by the European Commission services (DG ENV and JRC) and the relevant fire services in the EU Member States and European countries (Forest Services and Civil Protection services). Research activities for the develop...
ERC means European Research Council, and since 2007, the European Research Council has funded thousands of ambitious research projects. The ERC’s mission is to encourage research of the highest quality in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-driven frontier research acr...
The Amazon forest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, which houses about 10% of the Earth’s biodiversity and 16% of the world’s total river discharge into the oceans. However, the Amazon forest has already lost up to 20% of its original area since the 1970s and is under constant thr...
The need for accurate information on the state and evolution of tropical forest types at regional and continental scales is widely recognized, particularly to analyze the forest diversity and dynamics, to assess degradation and deforestation processes and to better manage these natural resources...
The present analysis examines the environmental and human rights challenges in the Amazon region. It finds that the Amazonian countries pursue development policies in the region based on the exploitation on an industrial scale of natural and non-renewable resources that have caused and continue ...
For the largest tropical rainforest on Earth, an aggravated forest fire and deforestation regime in Amazonia put at risk the world’s richest biodiversity assets and a major climate regulator. For the EU27, it highlights the need to associate the question of embodied deforestation consumption by ...
In 2019, the Amazon region and neighbor countries were affected by an intensive fire activity, above the norm in that region. Given the magnitude of the fire episodes in 2019, wildfires became a concern for society as well as for policy makers in Europe and elsewhere. This report describes the t...
ERC means European Research Council, and since 2007, the European Research Council has funded thousands of ambitious research projects. The ERC’s mission is to encourage research of the highest quality in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-driven frontier research acr...
The recent availability of time series of Sentinel-2 imagery represents a significant technological step in the use of Earth Observation (EO) data for forest cover monitoring. The 5 days revisiting time (S-2 A and S-2B satellites) and the 10m spatial resolution imply the need for much larger sto...
The JRC TREES-3 project aims at estimating forest cover changes at continental and regional levels for the tropical belt for the periods 1990-2000 and 2000-(2005)-2010 based on a systematic sample of forest cover change maps. An operational system has been developed for the processing and change...