CarboST

The CarboST project, funded under the Legge 14 program, aims to provide reliable data on CO2 sink/source strength of ecosystems in South Tyrol. Leveraging a dense network of monitoring stations, the project will develop a remote sensing-driven monitoring system. Key activities include standardizing eddy covariance measurements, processing satellite data, and using these in a simulation model to quantify net ecosystem exchange of CO2 (NEP) and net biome production (NBP) and will provide a web-based visualization of the results for public access.

EURAC, leading Work Packages 3 and 6, will provide remote sensing products and gridded meteorological data, deriving fAPAR from Sentinel-2 (S2) over South Tyrol. The work involves collecting and preprocessing S2 data, estimating fAPAR maps using radiative transfer models and machine learning, and performing cloud-masking and gap-filling. Eurac will validate fAPAR, downscaling MODIS products, and time-series analysis. Data outputs, including raster and vector layers like annual GPP images, will be available through standard web services for external applications or desktop clients. These layers will be stored in the Environmental Data Platform (EDP) of EURAC and will also be visible through the interactive client Geobrowser Map of the province of Bolzano.

Contact: Giulia Graldi giulia.graldi@eurac.edu