Climate change and human impact are causing increasing water security problems in the Mediterranean region. It is therefore becoming more and more important to properly manage the available water resources accounting for the water needs of various users. In the recently launched EU-funded OurMED project, an international team of researchers will be developing integrated water management concepts for eight demonstration sites across the Mediterranean by June 2026. RSS contributes with earth observation-based assessments of water availability and quality and ecosystem health, offering location-s ..read more

Assessing the capacity of European coastal wetlands to mitigate and adapt to climate change The post RESTORE4Cs appeared first on Remote Sensing Solutions ..read more

RSS has partnered with Callirius AG and other innovative ventures such as OCELL, Klim GmbH, and Open Forest Protocol to implement cutting-edge digital measurement, reporting, and verification (dMRV) processes in the voluntary carbon market (VCM). We are working together to promote transparency, trust, credibility, and ethical principles within the realm of carbon projects and the VCM. The VCM is essential for businesses and individuals seeking to support climate solutions and counterbalance their residual and hard-to-abate emissions with certified carbon credits. However, concerns about the l ..read more

The Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) is funding a new research project entitled Dense Satellite Time Series for Forest Monitoring (DESTSAM). In cooperation with Prof. Michael Schmitt from the Universität der Bundeswehr München, innovative AI-based methods are to be developed to supplement optical satellite image time series with radar satellite images. Clouds in optical satellite imagery often prevent regular monitoring, leading to gaps in the time series. Radar satellites do not have this limitation. no-repeat;center top;; auto https://www.remote-sensing-solutions.c ..read more

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Introduction In cooperation with the International Organization of Migration (DLR), RSS has successfully completed the project CoExist, which was funded by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) through the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWK). The project outcome included a publication on environmental suitability maps for transhumance to support the planning of corridors and conflict prevention in the Sahel. Background Conflicts between farmers and semi-nomadic livestock herders (transhumance) have increased over the past two decades and continue to be a major challenge in sub ..read more

In the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) region peatlands cover approximately 23,6 million hectares, representing 56% of global tropical peatlands. However, their exact extent in most of these countries is not well known since the identification by field-based methods is time consuming and expensive due to the enormous extent of the countries and additionally due to difficult accessibility of many areas. Within the framework of the GIZ founded project SUPA (Sustainable Use of Peatland and Haze Mitigation in ASEAN) RSS supports with monitoring of so far unknown wetlands and potent ..read more

In the EUREKA EUROSTARS research project MuSe3D we developed together with four other European partners a five-band multispectral camera for use on conventional drones. Compared to multispectral camera systems currently available in the field of UAV, this camera offers a very high spatial resolution and an extremely high frame rate. Thus, a high image overlap can be achieved even at high flight speeds and consequently a large area can be surveyed very efficiently and in high quality. The basic version of the system records fife spectral bands: blue, green, red, red edge and NIR. However, the s ..read more

Recently RSS completed an extensive peatland survey in Indonesia: 15 million hectares of peatland across Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Papua were mapped for the Indonesian Peat Restoration Agency (BRG) based on historic and recent satellite imagery as well as topographic data in combination with field measurements of peat depth. no-repeat;center top;; auto For the implementation and institutionalization of the used methodology at BRG, two training sessions were recently realized by RSS. The latest training foreseen in Jakarta in November 2020 was implemented as a webinar due to ongoing COVID-19 tra ..read more

Indonesia hosts the largest tropical peatland areas worldwide. These landscapes represent huge carbon sinks, formed over the last 15.000 years from deposited plant remains, which accumulate in water-filled oxygen-free depressions. During the last 25 years, peatlands have been intensively converted to agricultural monocultures and extensive plantations, accompanied by ongoing deforestation and peat drainage. Such non-sustainable management of peatland areas has led to devastating environmental, health, and economic consequences for people of the region and Indonesia as a country. Peatlands have ..read more