FutureScapes
The Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Land Use (FutureScapes) is a 7-year-project (2024-2030) that aims to identify the relationships between biodiversity and carbon fluxes and integrate this new knowledge with satellite data into machine learning models. This in addition can be used to implement informed land-use planning and decision-making for policy makers as well as landowners and land users. The project is funded by Estonian Ministry of Education and Research and Estonian Research Council.
The goal
FutureScapes focuses on developing innovative solutions to address biodiversity loss and climate change. The main goal is to identify complex interconnections and co-benefits of biodiversity and carbon stocks and fluxes and to integrate this new knowledge into large-scale spatial models to create decision-support tools for land use planning.
What?
We will identify, analyze and link quantitatively the complex relationships between biodiversity patterns/functions, ecosystem carbon storage, sequestration and greenhouse gas emission from local to national level.
How?
By using geospatial data (incl. satellite data) and machine learning based spatial modelling, we will upscale the knowledge and relationships to regional level and implement in spatially explicit land use planning and management, considering the socioeconomic fabric of landowners and land users.
Coffee mornings in 2025
In January 2025, we start with Centre of Excellence Coffee Mornings (in Estonian). All interested people are welcome to join these online webinars (max 1 hour), where we present various topics relevant to the Centre of Excellence. The first coffee morning will take place on Tuesday, January 21st.
Link to Teams Event
Opening conference
The opening conference of the Centre of Excellence was broadcast live on May 2, 2024. The recording can be viewed on YouTube.
The Teams
The consortium of the Centre of Excellence comprises of 8 teams
Research and development institutions
Funders
Ministry of Education and Research
