Introduction to the Lecture：

Inventories show limitations for monitoring forest carbon resources in a quickly changing world, and are not available in every region. Given the large amount of diverse satellite data from multiple sensors and recent advances in deep learning, I will present examples of forest height and biomass mapping at very high resolution from the fusion of data from space borne sensors, and implications for regional and global carbon budgets with a focus on the alarming decline of the forest carbon sink in Europe.

Profile of the Speaker:

Philippe Ciais is a senior researcher working at Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement. He is an internationally recognized expert of the global carbon cycle and greenhouse gases emissions monitoring. He is the author of over a thousand of peer-reviewed publications including many in Nature, Science and high-impact journals (cited 230000 times). He is among the top 1% most-cited scientists in the fields of Geosciences and Ecology. He mentored 50 PhD students and 60 post-doctoral fellows and obtained the European Copernicus Medal and the Silver Medal of the National Center for Scientific Research in France. Past co-chair of the Global Carbon Project and lead of the carbon cycle chapter in the 5th IPCC Report. He co-leads the Carbon Monitor initiative that provides daily near real time CO2 emissions. Philippe Ciais is an elected member of the French National Academy of Sciences and an elected foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Science.