Revisiting the status of space-borne lidar missions for assessing structural and biophysical forest parameters in the context of sustainable management of Earth resources
Year: 2011
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Assessing forest aboveground biomass at global scale is crucial to address the challenge of sustainable management of forest resources and to strengthen forest-based climate change mitigation. To achieve this goal relying on spaceborne lidar missions is acknowledged to be a highly relevant solution. However, if this is taken as a given from the measurement point of view, the premise that spaceborne observation is the most suitable solution to provide information for sustainable management of forest resources is worth discussing. In this paper we suggest to take a fresh look at measurement processes designed to support the monitoring of Earth resources. We discuss the sustainability of Earth observation from space considering (1) issues that call into question the assumption that Earth-orbiting platform will always be available to the civilian remote sensing community and (2) issues concerning environmental impacts of space activity on the Earth. This leads us to suggest some actions that could help to design future observation systems in a more sustainable way in order to strengthen the capacity of measurement processes to meet their stated functional goal, i.e. sustainable management of forest resources.
Source: HAL
Authors: Durrieu, Sylvie, Nelson, R.
Language: English
Subfield: Forestry
Domain: Life Sciences
SDGs: Life on land, Climate action
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W208275544