The two days ZAPÁS validation workshop started on Tuesday 14 May with a welcoming by Anatoly Shvidenko followed by a project status presentation given by Christian Hüttich. The Meeting aimed to prepare a road map for the next steps, in particular how to operationalize and implement developed methods, derive product validation information and prepare the task on terrestrial carbon accounting for Central Siberia.
The status of the available forest inventory was presented by Mikhail Korets. The inventory could be provided for all local test sites. It was stated that in some cases the old inventory is (probably) more accurate than the most recent update. Reasons could be that information was eventually transferred from old maps from the 70ies. The local scale mapping (methods and products) was presented by the FSU team. More »