The GHG-KIT flagship
project (Austrian Space Application Program, ASAP 18) aims to develop a prototype
Earth Observation (EO)-integrated system for greenhouse gas (GHG) monitoring,
reporting, and verification (MRV).
The project supports Austria’s national reporting
capabilities and ensures compliance with European and international regulatory
frameworks, including the Paris Agreement, the EU Green Deal, and the Land Use,
Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) regulation.
Using a modular tool-kit
design, it creates a centralized platform featuring two key prototypes:
(i)
LULUCF Inventory Reporter (bottom-up)
(ii) CO2 and
CH4 Emissions Verification Element (top-down)
This collaboration between Austrian industry-science
teams and international experts is a best-practice example, with potential for
export and scaling to pan-European levels, while preparing the ground for the
integration of upcoming Copernicus satellite missions (e.g., CO2M, BIOMASS).
The event will include two
distinct focus areas. On the first day (February 26, 2025), we will concentrate
on atmospheric modelling.
The second day (February 27, 2025) will be dedicated to exploring the latest
advances and state-of-the-art applications of EO data for LULUCF.
Richard Engelen is Deputy Director of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and is managing the implementation of new emission monitoring services as part of CAMS.
Dr Thompson is a senior scientist at NILU since 2011. Prior to this, she held post doctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany, and at the Laboratory for Science of the Climate and Environment in France.
Part of the EEA Greenhouse Gas Reporting and Verification unit. Developing the use of EO based CLMS products in the context of supporting LULUCF inventory improvements and MRV.
Kevin is a forest ecologist and was a founding director of FERS Ltd set up in 2006, who specialize in land use and forest climate change and environmental law, forest monitoring systems and inventories, and environmental impact assessments.
Senior project manager in the field of climate change mitigation, Land Use Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF), greenhouse gas reporting and remote sensing and GIS expert for forest applications.
Bradley Matthews is an emissions inventory expert and researcher at Environment Agency Austria. He is a member of the Austrian inventory team, contributing to LULUCF and cross-cutting inventory calculations, as well as method development.
Bernhard Raml has long-term experience in high-performance computing. His research interest focuses on optimisation methods for physical parameter retrieval from high-resolution SAR data.
After four years in athmospheric measurement at TU Wien, Peter switched to the modelling community by joining GeoSphere Austria's chemical weather forecast competence unit.
Christian Maurer joined GeoSphere Austria (formerly ZAMG) in 2012 and has long-term experience in atmospheric transport modelling with the Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART on different spatial and temporal scales.
Johannes Schmid is a geospatial expert with an M.Sc. from Innsbruck. At GeoVille, he advanced from data scientist to software engineer and is now managing IT services and operations.
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