Final HYPI Conference on ‘New Perspectives in Modeling and Measurement of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds Emissions by Remote Sensing’ – Antwerp, Belgium; 15-16 June 2017

[Federico Magnani]

Final HYPI Conference on ‘New Perspectives in Modeling and Measurement of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds Emissions by Remote Sensing’ – Antwerp, Belgium; 15-16 June 2017

The conference will try to bring together the most relevant researchers involved in the measuring and the modeling of biogenic volatile organic compounds emissions by vegetation. 

The preliminary program of the conference is available at https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/hypi/programme/ .

The conference concludes the HYPI project, a research project on “Assessment of Isoprene emission by Hyperspectral data" that was funded in 2016 and 2017 by the Belgian Science Policy Office. Reinhart Ceulemans is the scientific coordinator of the project consortium. Partners are the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB, Belgium), the Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO, Belgium), and Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF-CSIC, Spain). 

You find more information as well as the list of the partners of the consortium at www.tinyurl.com/ua-hypi OR  https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/rg/pleco/research/research-projects/hypi.

During the Conference several talks will focus on modelling, which was the subject of two actions of the project. One part is based on the use of Radiative Transfer Models (e.g. SAIL and FLIGHT) for scaling up leaf parameters from leaf to canopy level. The second part is related to the large scale modelling to simulate BVOC fluxes from ecosystem to regional/global scale.