Matthias Forkel

The GEDI spaceborne lidar sensor shows how forests in Central Europe have changed since 2019. The canopy cover of the overstorey has declined, while that of the understorey has increased.
Nice work from @xiaoliusar.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Work was co-funded by @fireurisk.eu + @interreg.eu #WildfireCE + @daadworldwide.bsky.social to transfer knowledge, data and models about fuels and fires from 🇦🇺 to 🇩🇪
Data is available here: zenodo.org/records/1273...
Measurements are ongoing: www.emsbrno.cz/p.axd/en/Spr...
Congratulations, Johanna!

... we found:
• A litter fuel moisture model from 🇦🇺 for Eucalyptus also works well for beech and spruce forests.
• Fire Weather Index from EFFIS and German WBI underestimate fire danger in bark beetled forest stands.
• Soil moisture and Sentinel-1 backscatter are no good predictors for dead-FMC.

We investigated fuel moisture content 💧🔥 in Central European forests
➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We conduced automated and destructive measurements of litter, woody debris and of live vegetation. Then we compared with two models, Fire Weather Indices and with satellite observations ...

Matthias Forkel and Christopher Marrs presenting historical spy imagery at the booth of the Saxon state office for Geoinformation at the book convention in Leipzig

Historical spy imagery for the entire State of Saxony 🇩🇪 is now available to the public. Together with #GeoSN we published @leipzigerbuchmesse.bsky.social country-wide georeferenced mosaics for 1965 and 1975.
geoportal.sachsen.de

New #collaboration with @matthiasforkel.bsky.social & his team! Dr. Christoph Jörges is working with the Environmental #RemoteSensing research group at @tudresden.bsky.social on his postdoctoral studies.

🎯𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹: Imroving the integration of remote sensing data into the #LPJmL model. 👇🧪 #reserarch

Smouldering woody debris fuels air pollution over the Amazon A groundbreaking study, funded by ESA, reveals that fire emissions in the Amazon and Cerrado are largely driven by the smouldering combustion of woody debris. This crucial discovery highlights the sig...

Also @esa.int covers our paper with a very nice animation about the key findings:
ESA - Smouldering woody debris fuels air pollution over the Amazon www.esa.int/Applications...

Burning of woody debris dominates fire emissions in the Amazon and Cerrado - Nature Geoscience Fire emissions in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes are mainly produced from smouldering combustion of woody debris, according to observationally constrained fire emissions inventories.

Read our latest research on wildfire emissions in the Amazon and Cerrado, published in NGEO @nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Comparison of fire emission estimates, global models and the role of fire types and dead wood ...
@esa.int @knmi.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social