Aims and Scope | Aims and Scope of the conference |
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ForestSat’07
aims at bringing together remote sensing and geographic information specialists
with foresters and other forest stakeholders to foster exchanges towards an
operational and fruitful use of remote sensing techniques and products for
forest applications.
Forests are
a vital component of our environment, at all levels, from local to global. They
play a quadruple role, production, protection, conservation and a social one.
Since the early 90’s, they are subject to a renewed interest, due to wide
societal concerns regarding biodiversity and greenhouse effect that have
resulted in multilateral agreements such as the Convention on biological
diversity or the Kyoto protocol. Consequently the needs are growing for an
improved knowledge of the world forests.
In that context, remote sensing
techniques have already shown that they can play a significant role in the
inventory and characterisation of forests and for the knowledge of their
functioning. The recent years have seen the launch of new generations of
satellites, with more being expected in the years to come, and now a large
range of data is available, with spatial resolutions from a few kilometres to a
few decimetres and acquisition periodicity up to several times a day.
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