SarVision

SarVision is working on the provision of new agricultural crop information based on cloud free radar data.

SarVision succesfully organised technical training and capacity building workshops with the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) and WWF Indonesia on operational satellite monitoring.

SarVision published a groundbreaking report on deforestation in Sarawak for Wetlands International. Read more to download the report and have a look at the data yourself in Google Earth.

See updated Projects section for recent and ongoing projects.

Moreover, SarVision welcomes Edmond Muller to the team.

Google.org has launched Earth Engine at the UN climate conference in Cancun. The Wageningen University-SarVision team contributes large-area radar land cover mapping expertise to the initiative.

SarVision presented new forest status map results for Sarawak over the period 2005-2009 at the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil Roundtable 8 meeting in Jakarta from 8-11 November.

SarVision's work on deforestation monitoring featured extensively in an item on a recent Greenpeace campaign targeting Nestlé and palm oil suppliers.

While other issues remain hotly debated in Copenhagen, there is widespread agreement and support for initiatives on reducing deforestation. Solid forest monitoring is widely considered a key necessity.

Unilever, one of the world's largest food companies, has suspended a supply contract with a large Indonesian oil palm plantation company. Deforestation maps developed by SarVision played a critical role in this decision.

The portal for viewing data and maps of the international GEO Forest Carbon Tracking (FCT) Task was recently launched and can now be viewed on-line at www.geo-fct.org

SarVision is part of the technical consortium that will support the European Commission to develop practical measures for the implementation of the European biofuel sustainability scheme.

WUR-SarVision forest monitoring work featured prominently at the opening day address of the world's largest GIS conference.

SarVision actively participated in the 2nd GEO Forest Monitoring Symposium in Chiang Rai, Thailand, 1-3 July 2009.

The Wageningen University - SarVision team will renew past collaboration on radar research and mapping with Malaysia.

Niels Wielaard (SarVision) is one of the invited members of the newly established Working Group on Greenhouse Gases (GHG) of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

Niels Wielaard (SarVision) and Dirk Hoekman (WUR) successfully presented the new operational ALOS PALSAR processing methodology and preliminary map results for Borneo and Guyana to a distinguished scientific audience.

Dirk Hoekman (WUR) presented our state of the art work on the use of advanced radar technologies for forest and land cover change monitoring at the GEO Forest Carbon Tracking Workshop in Canberra, Australia, 7-9 April 2009.

SarVision has formed a strategic partnership with Ecofys.

Marcela Quinones (SarVision) participated in the second Guiana Shield Initiative steering committee meeting held in Bogotá Feb 27-28 2009.

The WUR-SarVision team presented its latest scientific results in the field of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry at the POLinSAR 2009 conference.

Dirk Hoekman (Wageningen University) participated in the 11th science team meeting in Tokyo, Japan, January 13 - 16, 2009.

 

SarVision has formed a strategic partnership with FORM International.

The Wageningen University-SarVision team contributes to a new radar chapter of the GOFC GOLD REDD sourcebook.

SarVision actively participated in the 1st GEO Forest Monitoring Symposium, hosted by the Brazilian space agency INPE in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, 4-8 November 2008.

SarVision convened with other leading experts on forest and land cover at a special monitoring workshop organised by the Prince of Wales' Prince's Rainforest Project in London, 20-21 October 2008.

Niels Wielaard (SarVision) and Dirk Hoekman (Wageningen University) participated in the 3rd GOFC-GOLD symposium held in Jena (Germany) from 3-17 October 2008.

SarVision presented experience with operational radar applications for tropical forest monitoring at the recent GOFC GOLD expert meeting and contributed to a new UNFCCC report.