Global and boreal estimates of woody aboveground biomass for 2020: Filling GEDI'S northern data gap with ICESat-2 and harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 Forest aboveground biomass Density (AGBD) maps provide important constraints on climate and carbon cycle models and enable the long-term monitoring of…

Alongside colleagues at @remote-sensing-slu.bsky.social (coordinating #NextGenCarbon), co-authors of this study include #NGC colleagues Nuno Carvalhais and SAB member Neha Hunka, with thanks to Maurizio Santoro. The publication is available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📡Our latest public deliverable focuses on customising HILDA+ v3 land use data to meet specific modelling requirements for land surface and bookkeeping applications. The partner responsible for this deliverable is KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. View here: nextgencarbon-project.eu/resources/

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💡 SCIENTIST SAYS: DR. BENJAMIN BREDE: How can TLS and ULS data be used to build more accurate forest models that help us improve predictions of how forests respond to climate change? Our expert Benjamin Brede shares his insights in the latest interview: nextgencarbon-project.eu/scientist-sa...

📣NGC NEWS ARTICLE – Findings from a recently published study confirm that integrating multi-source remote sensing data enhances the timeliness and reliability of insect outbreak monitoring. Read more in our news article via the link below:
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Remote sensing across scales and platforms: monitoring Castelporziano nature reserve forest insect outbreaks - Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali Stone pines (Pinus pinea) are a dominant species in Mediterranean coastal forests, playing a crucial ecological and landscape role. However, these ecosystems are experiencing increasing pressure from rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, and other stressors, which weaken trees and make them more susceptible to natural disturbances, such as insect infestations, leading to significant forest decline. This study presents a multi-platform, temporal, and spatial resolution remote sensing approach to detect and monitor insect outbreaks. The study area is Castelporziano Presidential Estate (Rome, Italy), a pine-dominated periurban forest of high ecological value and severely affected by Tomicus destruens (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and Toumeyella parvicornis (Hemiptera: Coccidae). Very high-resolution Pléiades and DigitalGlobe images were used to map forest disturbances accurately and to assess the accuracy of the yearly forest disturbance maps obtained through Sentinel-2 data. Sentinel-2 data enabled the production of yearly disturbance maps in near real time (NRT), improving the Three Indices Three Dimensions (3I3D) unsupervised forest disturbance algorithm. Lastly, PlanetScope data were used to calculate the Mean Time Lag (MTL) between disturbance occurrence and detection in Sentinel-2 NRT images, revealing an average detection delay of 8.5 days. Additionally, the unsupervised model’s performance was evaluated, yielding an overall accuracy of 85%. The accuracy of the Sentinel-2 forest disturbance map was assessed against the map derived from Pléiades/DigitalGlobe, achieving an overall accuracy of 92%. These findings confirm that integrating multi-source remote sensing data enhances the timeliness and reliability of insect outbreak monitoring, offering valuable tools for managing Mediterranean forests threatened by climate change and biotic agents. Graphical Abstract

📢Publication out: #NGC’s Giovanni D'Amico, Gherardo Chirici and Saverio Francini contributed to the paper “Remote sensing across scales and platforms: monitoring Castelporziano nature reserve forest insect outbreaks”. Read it via the link below. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌍 The #CONCERTO_GA2026 continues with scientific exchanges across sister and collaborative projects.

@rubenvalpue.bsky.social presented @nextgencarbon.bsky.social CONCERTO's sister project, by showcasing how remote sensing application and benchmarking is used whitnin the project.

💡Catch up on all our Women and Girls in Science theme week interviews from last week, featuring our amazing scientists Aparnna Ravi P, Viola Heinrich, Chiara Zabeo, Geike De Sloover and Ameenat Kehinde Adesina, now on the #NGC website! #Feb11 #WomenInScience
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💡SCIENTIST SAYS - DR APARNNA RAVI PANANGATTUPARAMBIL: Why is it important to understand carbon cycle processes and the impact of land-use change on greenhouse gas fluxes, and how does the BLUE bookkeeping model relate? Read the full interview on our website: nextgencarbon-project.eu/Scientist-Sa...

As part of the NextGenCarbon project and the @esa.int CCI Biomass project, our #NGC colleague Maurizio Santoro from GAMMA presented results from early BIOMASS satellite data at the PolInSAR-BIOMASS Workshop 2026 this week. The data already demonstrate strong potential and prompted lively discussion.

💡SCIENTIST SAYS - DR RICHARD FUCHS: “Richard, we would need at least the last 100 years of data – is that possible?” A question from Philippe Ciais that shifted Richard Fuchs’s work to land-use modelling and led to the HILDA+ model. Read our latest interview: nextgencarbon-project.eu/01_26-richar...

We hope you enjoyed a great festive season! As we look ahead to 2026, #NGC is set for an exciting year with new publications, key deliverables, milestones and our annual meeting. Catch up on all we achieved in 2025 in our short project recap on the website: nextgencarbon-project.eu/project-high...

❄️🎄 Happy Holidays! As the first year of the project draws to a close, we warmly thank all our partners, collaborators, and everyone following our work on LinkedIn, Bluesky, and our website. We look forward to the second year and wish you a pleasant festive season and a successful New Year!

💡SCIENTIST SAYS – PROF. MARTIN HEROLD: How can larger areas be monitored? Our #NGC colleague, remote sensing expert Professor Martin Herold at @gfz.bsky.social Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, shared his insights on the topic. Read the interview ⬇️
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Our #NGC collaborators Mirco Migliavacca and Alessandro Cescatti contributed to this paper which explores the interplay between forest structural diversity and resilience, examining how increasing forest structural diversity can enhance resilience. Go and read it ⬇️
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Alongside many other scientists presenting their results, such as Philippe Ciais from LSCE and Sophia Walther from Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry.

Yesterday, #NGC coordinator Ruben Valbuena @rubenvalpue.bsky.social , Manuela Balzarolo and Stephen Sitch introduced NextGenCarbon, CONCERTO Project @projectconcerto.eu and #THRAC3E project in the European Space Agency - ESA 3rd Carbon Cluster meeting @esa.int.

💡SCIENTIST SAYS - DR GUILLAUME MARIE: What is carbon modelling? This question was put to Guillaume Marie, an expert and our #NGC colleague at Science Partners. Check out the full interview on our website!
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Read comments on the news article from the following #NextGenCarbon colleagues: Peter Cox @coxypm.bsky.social, Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social, Sebastiaan Luyssaert and Guillaume Marie.

💡Read the latest #NGC news article to find out how this first multi-model benchmarking study identified growth and mortality rates as critical variables in the development of vegetation demographic models (VDMs). Click the link below: nextgencarbon-project.eu/news-thefirs...

❄️ Stay tuned for the November "SCIENTIST SAYS" interview, coming next week! Have you read our interviews with researcher Sven van Baren and Professor Nina Buchmann, published earlier this autumn? If not, you'll find the interviews via the link below.⬇️ nextgencarbon-project.eu/scientist-sa...

#NextGenCarbon colleagues who contributed to this paper: Saverio Francini (lead author), Ruben Valbuena @rubenvalpue.bsky.social, Mart-Jan Schelhaas, Gert-Jan Nabuurs and Gherardo Chirici.

Bridging spatio-temporal gaps in ALS data using Landsat time series and forest disturbance-recovery metrics via multi-task neural networks European forests contribute to climate change mitigation by sequestering carbon, conserving biodiversity, and enhancing water retention. However, clim…

📣Another #NGC publication is out! “Bridging spatio-temporal gaps in ALS data using Landsat time series and forest disturbance-recovery metrics via multi-task neural networks” has been published in Science of Remote Sensing this week. 🎉
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Just published, a land-mark paper by Annemarie Eckes-Shephard et al.! It assesses the performance of a new generation of Demography-enabled Dynamic Global Vegetation (D-DGVMs), that attempt to simulate the changing size and age structure of trees in forests.

#NextGenCarbon colleagues who contributed to this paper: Peter Cox @coxypm.bsky.social, Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social, Aleksi Lehtonen @aleksileh.bsky.social, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Guillaume Marie, Jessica Needham, Mikko Peltoniemi @mikkopel.bsky.social and Stephen Sitch.

Demography, dynamics and data: building confidence for simulating changes in the world's forests Vegetation demographic models (VDMs) are advanced tools for simulating forest responses to climate and land-use changes, and are essential for projecting carbon cycling and large-scale forest manage...

📢 The third publication from NGC is out! "Demography, dynamics and data: building confidence for simulating changes in the world's forests" was published in the @newphyt.bsky.social last week. Several #NGC colleagues are among the paper's authors💡
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💡 "TLS allows to measure 3D attributes like branch lengths and angles, that have been impractical to measure at scale with traditional methods like measurement tapes", says NGC colleague @benjaminbrede.bsky.social. Read our latest news article on the website!
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Researcher Sven van Baren

💡SCIENTIST SAYS: For October's interview, we had a chat with #NGC colleague Sven van Baren, a researcher at @w-u-r.bsky.social. What are greenhouse gas inventories and LULUCF? How are they connected to #NextGenCarbon? Read our latest interview to find out ➡️ nextgencarbon-project.eu/scientist-sa...

📢 The second publication from NextGenCarbon is out! "Expanding forest research with terrestrial LiDAR technology" was published in Nature Communications yesterday, with NGC colleagues @benjaminbrede.bsky.social and Martin Herold from @gfz.bsky.social among the authors.
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📢 The first #NextGenCarbon scientific deliverable is out! The protocols for the Global Carbon Budget (GCB)-Trendy and the Near Real Time (NRT) Land Surface Model (LSM) simulations, were developed by the GHG Budgets, LULUCF Reconciliation & Synthesis team.
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