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C-PEAT
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C-PEAT, in collaboration with PAGES and Future Earth, is taking part in the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change ( COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, in November 2021. Our team is...
Global Peatlands Assessment: The State of the World’s Peatlands
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Peatlands are unique and rare ecosystems that, despite only covering around 3-4% of the planet’s land surface, they contain up to one-third of the world’s soil carbon, which is twice the amount of...
Improving the Fire Weather Index System for Peatlands using Peat-Specific Hydrological Input Data
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The Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) system, even though originally developed and calibrated for an upland Jack pine forest, is used globally to estimate fire danger for any fire environment. However...
Jonas Mortelmans
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PhD Researcher (Earth and Environmental Sciences)
Mapping and Monitoring Peatland Conditions from Global to Field Scale
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Peatlands cover only 3–4% of the Earth’s surface, but they store nearly 30% of global soil carbon stock. This significant carbon store is under threat as peatlands continue to be degraded at alarming...
Peatland Atlas: Facts and Figures About Wet Climate Guardians
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Although peatlands cover only 3% of the world's land, they store about twice as much carbon as in the biomass of all the world's forests combined. Thus, they are incredibly important especially for...
Peatland Atlas: Facts and Figures About Wet Climate Guardians
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Although peatlands cover only 3% of the world's land, they store about twice as much carbon as in the biomass of all the world's forests combined. Thus, they are incredibly important especially for...
Peatlands & climate commitments: Enhancing climate action through peatlands
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June 23rd, 2022 at 1:30am MST to June 23rd, 2022 at 9:00am MST
The session will be organized in 2 different occasions on Thursday 23 June 2022 Morning session: 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. CEST/UTC +2 (Rome time) Afternoon session: 15:00 – 17:00 p.m. CEST/UTC +2 (Rome time)...
Satellite Determination of Peatland Water Table Temporal Dynamics by Localizing Representative Pixels of A SWIR-Based Moisture Index
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The OPtical TRApezoid Model (OPTRAM) is a physically-based approach for remote soil moisture estimation. OPTRAM is based on the response of short-wave infrared (SWIR) reflectance to vegetation water...