The team consists of a balanced distribution of leading experts from Europe and Russia in the field of Earth observation for forestry applications and includes Russian stakeholders, i.e. the Sukachev Forest Institute, who themselves apply remote sensing techniques. The Russian partners come from two geographically different, federal regions: the city of Moscow and the Krasnoyarsk Kray. An external review board, the ZAPÀS Advisory Board (ZAB) has been installed to involve representatives of the Russian space agency as well as the Federal Forest Agency and connect ZAPÁS to the United Nations Forest Resource Assessment 2010 (FRA 2010) and further international programmes.
The ZAPÁS Consortium is built around the following partners:
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Germany (FSU)
International Institute for Advanced System Analyses
Austria (IIASA)
Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation (IKI-RAS)
V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation (SIF-RAS)
Joint Stock Company “Russian Space Systems”
Russian Federation (NTsOMZ)
The ZAPÁS Advisory Board
An external and informal review board – the ZAPÀS Advisory Board (ZAB) – has been installed to involve representatives of the Russian Space Agency as well as the Federal Forest Agency. Further, the ZAB communication connect ZAPÁS to the United Nations Forest Resource Assessment 2010 (FRA 2010) and link international scientific programs, such as the Global Observations of Land Dynamics and Forest Cover (GOFC-GOLD).
ZAPÁS Advisory Board Members
Adam Gerrand
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Global Forest Resources Assessment Rome, ItalyChris Steenmans
European Environment Agency (EEA) Copenhagen, DenmarkTony Janetos
Chair of Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics Joint Global Change Research Institute Maryland, United StatesHenri Laur
European Space Agency (ESA) Earth Observation Missions Management Office Frascati, ItalyNina Novikova
Scientific Centre for Earth Operational Monitoring Roscosmos Moscow, Russia
ZAPÁS was funded by the European Commission, Space, Cross-cutting Activities, International Cooperation, Grant no. SPA.2010.3.2-01 EU-Russia Cooperation in GMES (SICA)