The ReCover project created novel, trustworthy and standardised, but
affordable services with special emphasis on:
A sound statistical concept and validation procedure in production.
Very high resolution image data to improve reliability of results.
Adoption of radar data in REDD services.
Building a standardised service system.
The European Sentinel satellite missions of the Copernicus
program to ensure the sustainability of high quality services in the
The goals of ReCover project were implemented via services scheme. The service
capabilities mean provision of a monitoring system of forest cover and biomass
and their changes, including a robust accuracy assessment. The capabilities
are based on utilizing mainly space-borne earth observation data and in-situ
Service Level Agreements
The service development was controlled by specific user requirements that were
expressed through Service Level Agreements (SLA) between the user organisation
and the service provider in the ReCover consortium. The SLA defined which
products - typically forest cover or biomass maps over a specified area - were
provided by the service. The service provider specified the data, the methods
and the processes used to provide the required end product. The services were
oriented toward and prepared particularly for the implementation of the
post-Kyoto climate treaty and the REDD+.
Service roll-out and expansion to the community outside the project and
present pilot users was a key activity of the ReCover project. The outside
community includes, but is not restricted to TREES-3 project, GSE Forest
Monitoring Extension, Forest
Resources Assessment of FAO, and Global
Forest Observation Initiative of GEO. The scientific viewpoint that
reaches beyond the state-of-the-art techniques was the leading baseline of the