Turning forest carbon assimilation into a service in a VTT-led project

VTT coordinates the EU-funded Forest Flux project, launched in 2018, which creates commercial services for the estimation of forest carbon storage and assimilation. The services are based on computerised interpretation of satellite data acquired by the Sentinel-2 satellite, which is part of the European Copernicus Programme. The customers of the global service include forest companies, authorities and NGOs. Using a cloud-based service platform maintained by VTT, the satellite data is refined into map products describing the forest biomass and carbon assimilation. The interpretation is