ForEco

ForEco is a Smart Forest Ecological Management System which will provide ecosystem services based on open data using FIWARE technologies to apply proven models to a large number of customers: government organizations, municipalities, NGOs, companies in agriculture and forest economy sector, green economy companies, farmers, research organizations, etc.

ForEco team is working to acquire a fair share of a multi-billion forestry industries market providing high value ecosystem services. Customers will be willing to pay for the information derived from processing data from various open data resources because of the high economic value of the information and knowledge produced by ForEco.

ForEco is designed as an integrated information system for classification and dissemination of large volumes of heterogeneous ecological data and information combined with an advanced decision support system. These ecosystem services will be based on a large quantity of open data from different international initiatives for satellite data exploitation (e.g. GEO; GEOSS; Copernicus) to support decision-making processes. A number of water and carbon cycle models and forest models for simulating the agricultures influence will be developed, adapted, and used, such as: Agrarian Dynamic Global Vegetation Models, Models of the Plant Cover and Forest Growth Models. Open Data from specific sensor measurements will be used for providing information for the incident solar radiation and the absorbed photosynthetic active radiation, for the net primary production and CO2 utilization, for nitrogen content in the leaves, for humidity in the soil and the fluorescent signal from the photosynthesis activity. Such data will be based on: combination of different satellite and airborne observations, experimental ecosystem models, in-situ photometric measurements. ForEco will be exploiting the results of the FP7 ELLIOT Project (adapted to the FIWARE technologies) and some COST Program actions.

The implementation of the ForEco project will contribute to the sustainable ecological and profitable adaptive management of forest ecosystems. A scientific ecological management of the forest resources will provide a sustainable economic value in a long term not only in terms of revenues generated taking advantage of just selling the forest resources but also saving the costs to cure diseases, to provide fresh water, to clean the air, etc.