Forests are often described as the ‘lungs of the Earth’, absorbing twice as much carbon as they emit, acting as carbon sinks (storing CO2 in their branches, roots and leaves).
Forests are often described as the ‘lungs of the Earth’, absorbing twice as much carbon as they emit, acting as carbon sinks (storing CO2 in their branches, roots and leaves). Carbon sinks are essential to climate mitigation and limiting further global temperature rises.
Dr Emily Lines, Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Earth Observation, and her team have been monitoring forests across Europe to collect data from ground-based instruments such as Terrestrial Laser Scanning, drones and even traditional tape measures.
From this, the team hopes to directly monitor Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) with the help of AI. EBVs are a set of core variables that will collectively show the effect of anthropogenic change on biodiversity.
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