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Swedish Minister for EU Affairs meets FORWARDS Coordinator

Official visit to the Department of Forest Remote Sensing at SLU

On 8 April, the Swedish Minister for European Union Affairs, Jessica Rosencrantz, visited the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences to learn about the work of the Forest Remote Sensing Department.

She stopped by the Remote Sensing Laboratory where Professor Ruben Valbuena, FORWARDS project coordinator, and research engineers Mikael Egberth and Juha Niemi told her about their Sweden-wide lidar mapping of forests, the FORWARDS and NextGenCarbon projects and their relevance to EU policies.

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Ph. Olof Bergvall

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