Sustainable land and ecosystem management needs spatio-temporal monitoring of phenological development and vegetation conditions. Time series of bio-geophysical parameters from global (100 – 300m) to regional scale (1 – 30m) are generated by VITO Remote Sensing’s processing workflows and provide real-time insight into:
- Vegetation health
- Vegetation cover
- Above-ground biomass
- Canopy chlorophyll
- Dry matter content
- Leaf area
- Leaf equivalent water thickness
- Fraction of incoming photosynthetically active radation absorbed by vegetation (FAPAR)
- Surface radiation (albedo)
Bio-geophysical parameters are cornerstones to understand ecosystem dynamics, manage natural resources and assess carbon budget. In order to truly understand ecosystems, you need cross-disciplinary insights into plant physiology, remote sensing and modelling.
VITO Remote Sensing analyzes integrated archives of Earth Observation data (Spot-Vegetation, ENVISAT-Meris, PROBA-V, NOAA-AVHRR, Metop-AVHRR, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3, …), meteorological data and in-situ data to help you to improve your understanding of ecosystems and their changes. That way we can solve questions like:
- Did the growing season start early this year?
- How does seasonal vegetation grow?
- When was a grassland cut?
- How do deforestation and reforestation events occur?
- Where do droughts occur most frequently?
- Where are the best grazing conditions for pastures?
- …
