Using satellites to save our peatlands – how and why?

Peatlands store nearly one-third of all carbon sequestered into soil. When they are dried or drained, the stored carbon is released in the atmosphere.
 
Restoration efforts play a crucial role in preventing climate warming, and monitoring the efforts is required to ensure success. Being a slow process and due to the nature of peatlands as wetlands, restoration is tricky to monitor on-site.
 
Thanks to the European Space Agency’s satellite images and Aalto researchers on the ground, an innovative remote sensing method makes monitoring quicker and more efficient in evaluating the effectiveness of the restoration efforts with impacts around the globe.