17 November 2023

12:20 – 13:05

Amphithéâtre Faure

Nicolas Delbart

Nicolas Delbart is a Professor in the Geography Department of Université Paris Cité, and a member of the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Energies de Demain. His teaching focuses on the use of remote sensing data to study the environment. In particular, he is responsible for the Master’s degree in Remote Sensing and Geomatics Applied to the Environment. His research focuses on remote sensing observation of vegetation, both natural and agricultural, as an essential component of major biogeochemical cycles subject to climatic variations, and as a resource for human activities.

Conference: How can remote sensing be used to address forest energy issues at different scales?

Forests play a key role in the Earth’s major energy and biogeochemical cycles. Taken on a global scale, they help mitigate the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. Deforestation and degradation are also the second source of this increase. On a local scale, wood is also a resource, particularly for everyday energy. The presentation, far from being exhaustive, will show examples of the use of spatial remote sensing to address functional or structural changes in forests: how can the advance of spring increase annual carbon capture on a semi-continental scale? what is the extent of forest degradation in a West African context? how can we highlight the effects of community forest management in Nepal?