Environmental data use for determining the temporal carbon flow consequences of biomass for energy

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Title
Environmental data use for determining the temporal carbon flow consequences of biomass for energy

CoPED ID
1a37f0b2-46a3-437f-bf3b-1f7d26ca1d5f

Status
Closed


Value
£554,835

Start Date
March 31, 2014

End Date
March 31, 2015

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Renewable energy targets have led to a growth in demand for woody biomass, in turn leading to a re-assessment of methods for defining sustainable forest management and forest carbon stock. Well managed forest can be both productive and sustainable, maintaining a positive carbon balance whilst providing all sorts of ecosystem services. However, lack of data and tools to quantify the effect of forestry management brings uncertainty to the effectiveness of bioenergy policy as a climate change mitigation measure and poses a risk to the bioenergy and other wood processing sectors. In this project E4tech, Rezatec, the University of Edinburgh and Drax will develop a methodology to accurately identify the temporal carbon impacts of biomass removal from forests. Information will be extracted from different environmental datasets (satellite, radar and on the ground measurements) using information retrieval algorithms and linked to a forest growth model. The result will be a service that helps businesses in the wood industry understand the GHG impact associated to a given forest biomass feedstock and prove compliance with sustainability criteria to its stakeholders.

E4TECH (UK) LTD LEAD_ORG
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH PARTICIPANT_ORG
E4TECH (UK) LTD PARTICIPANT_ORG
DRAX POWER LIMITED PARTICIPANT_ORG
REZATEC LIMITED PARTICIPANT_ORG

Subjects by relevance
  1. Forests
  2. Biomass (industry)
  3. Bioenergy
  4. Climate changes
  5. Sustainable forest management
  6. Enterprises
  7. Climatic effects
  8. Modelling (representation)
  9. Sustainable development
  10. Fuelwood
  11. Carbon
  12. Climate policy
  13. Environmental effects
  14. Energy production (process industry)
  15. Forest ecosystems
  16. Forestry
  17. Forest industry
  18. Silviculture
  19. Climate protection

Extracted key phrases
  1. Environmental datum use
  2. Temporal carbon flow consequence
  3. Forest carbon stock
  4. Forest biomass feedstock
  5. Different environmental dataset
  6. Sustainable forest management
  7. Temporal carbon impact
  8. Forest growth model
  9. Positive carbon balance
  10. Renewable energy target
  11. Woody biomass
  12. Biomass removal
  13. Information retrieval algorithm
  14. Wood processing sector
  15. Climate change mitigation measure

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