ClimateSCOpe 2: Eyes on the forests

Published on 27/10/2025

Eyes on the forests: how space is protecting the green lung of the planet. With 108 connections on October 23, 2025, ClimateSCOpe, the new projects webinar, brings together the SCO community from around the world to discuss forest conservation. Replay.

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ClimateSCOpe, the new meeting place for international SCO projects. © SCO

Following the success of the first ClimateSCOpe dedicated to the oceans, we have taken the opportunity of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 30) in Belém, Brazil, to dedicate this second edition to how the BIOMASS satellite mission and SCO projects are advancing forest monitoring and protection.

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Interventions

General introduction by Laurence Monnoyer-Smith, Director of Sustainable Development at CNES, co-founder of the SCO.
🌳 Presentation of the European BIOMASS mission by Mathew Williams from the University of Edinburgh.
🇫🇷 TropiSCO project, by Juan Doblas from GlobEO, which implemented the mapping platform tropisco.org, which allows users to view tropical deforestation from 2018 to the present in near real time using radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite.
🇹🇭 CarbonAtlas-THA project, by Sirikul Hutasavi of GISTDA, which uses various advanced geospatial technologies to improve forest carbon monitoring, reporting, and verification systems in Thailand, based on the Carbon Atlas platform.
🇮🇹 CACAO project, by Simona Brandi of EarthSensing, which is developing a web-based mapping platform that provides Italian forest owners with the information they need to monitor forest management interventions in terms of carbon footprint, converting them into carbon credits.