LARGE AREA OPERATIONAL EXPERIMENT FOR FOREST DAMAGE MONITORING IN EUROPE USING SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING - RESULTS OF THE TECHNICAL WORKING GROUP

摘要

In January 1992, UNEP called the first Advisory Board meeting in Prague to launch the "large Area Operational Experiment for Forest Damage Monitoring in Europe Using Satellite Remote Sensing" (LAOE). The Czech Republic, Poland and Germany agreed to participate by providing their relevant ongoing research projects as contributions to the experiment. The Czech Republic was nominated to the lead country, and UNEP offered to provide co-ordination and secretarial services. The Advisory Board of the project appointed a technical Working Group (TWG), with scientists from the Czech Republic, Poland, Finland and Germany to develop a methodology and prepare guidelines for the harmonisation of the various classification approaches for regional applications. The results and the recommendations of the TWG will be introduced in this paper.