EU H2020 Project "MF-RADAR (Multi-frequency RADAR imaging for the analysis of tropical forest structure..)": description, partecipants, costs and EC-fundings

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Project "MF-RADAR" data sheet

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Coordinator	UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER Organization address address: UNIVERSITY ROAD city: LEICESTER postcode: LE1 7RH website: www.le.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	United Kingdom [UK]
Project website	https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/geography/research/projects/mf-radar/mf-radar
Total cost	183˙454 €
EC max contribution	183˙454 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
Code Call	H2020-MSCA-IF-2014
Funding Scheme	MSCA-IF-EF-ST
Starting year	2016
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2016-01-01 to 2017-12-31

#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER	UK (LEICESTER)	coordinator	183˙454.00

UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER

UK (LEICESTER)

coordinator

183˙454.00

Project objective

The tropical rainforest of the Amazon basin is a global biodiversity hotspot and stores significant amounts of carbon, stabilising the regional and global climate. Deforestation, forest degradation and climate change impacts are posing a threat to its future. This Marie Curie fellowship will develop a systematic integration of geomorphometry methods with satellite remote sensing techniques from Synthetic Aperture Radar to study the floristic-structural associations in the tropical forest of the Amazon, map disturbances and degradation, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and preserve floristic diversity. Its research objectives (RO) areto identify geomorphometric variables related to tree species abundance and richness in Tapajos, Brazil, and structural forest variables from multi-frequency radar satellites (RO1); to analyse tree species, radar data and geomorphometry witha machine-learning (maximum-entropy) approach to produce species probability maps (RO2); to determine the explanatory power of the integrated radar/geomorphometry approach for biomass mapping (RO3); and to estimate the aboveground carbon stocks (RO4). The technical and complementary training objectives (TO) are to learn advanced radar processing skills for forest structure estimation (TO1); to learn effective data integration techniques for multi-frequency radar data and geomorphometric parameters (TO2); to learn how to communicate scientific research to the wider public (TO3); and to acquire complementary and leadership skills (TO4). The fellow will undertake a world-class programme of research and training in Earth Observation research methods, several international secondments, participate in postgraduate training modules and specific researcher development courses in complementary skills. She will transfer her expertise in tropical forest structure and biodiversityof the Amazon to Europe and develop her academic career to reach and enforce a senior academic position.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2016	Polyanna da ConceiÃ§Ã£o Bispo, JoÃ£o Roberto dos Santos, MÃ¡rcio de Morisson Valeriano, Paulo MaurÃcio Lima de Alencastro GraÃ§a, Heiko Balzter, Helena FranÃ§a, PitÃ¡goras da ConceiÃ§Ã£o Bispo Predictive Models of Primary Tropical Forest Structure from Geomorphometric Variables Based on SRTM in the TapajÃ³s Region, Brazilian Amazon published pages: e0152009, ISSN: 1932-6203, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152009	PLOS ONE 11/4	2019-06-18
2017	Polyanna da ConceiÃ§Ã£o Bispo, Heiko Balzter, Yadvinder Malhi, J. W. Ferry Slik, JoÃ£o Roberto dos Santos, Camilo Daleles RennÃ³, Fernando D. EspÃrito-Santo, Luiz E. O. C. AragÃ£o, ArimatÃ©a C. Ximenes, PitÃ¡goras da ConceiÃ§Ã£o Bispo Drivers of metacommunity structure diverge for common and rare Amazonian tree species published pages: e0188300, ISSN: 1932-6203, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188300	PLOS ONE 12/11	2019-06-18

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