Fore[st]cast – Annual Meeting 2025

The 2025 Fore[st]cast annual meeting took place on July 10 at the SDSC headquarters in Oerlikon.

Fore[st]cast – Nowcast and predict forest condition
Data Science Projects for the Large-Scale Infrastructures (2024-2026)

Forests host about 90% of the world’s terrestrial biomass in the form of carbon and are an important pool for global biodiversity. We need long-term monitoring but a near real-time data processing to fulfill the needs from science and the public. We propose with the project Fore[st]cast a further step toward near real-time assessment of the condition of our forests, as has traditionally been done in meteorology or hydrology. Our goal is to further develop the TreeNet platform that reports on the current and predicted condition of trees (e.g., growth and drought stress) in relation to environmental variables.

Program
9:30 to 9:55 Welcome coffee (18th floor)
10:00 to 10:30 Introduction by Roman Zweifel (14th floor, Room S17) -> Link to presentation
10:30 to 11:15  From the past to the future: temporal interpolations and predictions by Jan Svoboda -> Link to presentation
11:15 to 12:00  From points to areas: spatial interpolations by William Aeberhard -> Link to presentation

12:00 to 13:30 Lunch at Tibits (short walk)

13:30 to 14:15  From gap filling to virtual trees by Mirko Lukovic -> Link to presentation
14:15 to 14:30 TreeNet IT infrastructure by Micah Wilhelm -> Link to presentation
14:30 to 14:45 Achievements to date and goals for the second year
14:45 to 15:45 Discussion rounds
15:45 to 16:00 Wrap up