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A pre-market service to map biomass potentials on a regional level
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2013
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Shaker Verlag
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In the framework of the EU FP7 project ENDORSE (Energy Downstream Services Providing energy
components for GMES) a pre-market service is developed to estimate the annual above ground biomass
increase for forests in Germany. This development is driven by the requirements of a prime user (Forest
Competence Center Eberswalde) and done in close cooperation with experts in the field of forestry. One
aim of the service is to develop a cost and time efficient method to deliver yearly estimates of above
ground forest biomass increase using satellite measurements and modelling techniques as the
BETHY/DLR SVAT model. Another aim is to use mainly satellite observations coming from GMES services
and/or GMES space components. Our yearly estimates of above ground forest biomass increase covering
the time span from 2000 to 2012 will fill the gaps of the national forest inventories. In Germany the
first and second National Forest Inventory (NFI) took place in the years 1987 and 2002 while the third inventory
was performed in 2011 and 2012. This large-scale ground mapping of the forest status and forest
productivity uses random sampling of forest parameters for the entire territory of the Federal Republic of
Germany. The new pre-market service allows monitoring forest growth on a regional level with 1km x
1km spatial resolution with respect to local meteorological conditions