Description

FORWARDS is a Horizon Europe project that will prototype the ForestWard Observatory, a pan-European monitoring and evaluation tool that will help demonstrate the impact of climate change on forests and guide decision-making for practical forest management. This Call aims to link long-term forest monitoring sites with remote sensing across Europe. Current longterm forest monitoring networks provide important information on the impact of climate change on forests. Still, most monitoring networks are not particularly focused on assessing climate change impacts. With this call, the aim is thus to increase the potential of existing forest monitoring sites – especially but
not inclusively ICP Forests, ICOS or LTER sites (i.e., sites which already provide a basic set of monitoring data) – to link the ground-based information with remote sensing to better assess the impact of climate and climatic extremes on trees and forests. Projects should apply hyperspectral (preferentially aircraftbased) remote sensing approaches and provide the relevant ground-truthing.