On Thursday 5 June, Professor Ruben Valbuena, the FORWARDS Coordinator, together with Research Engineer Mona Forsman and Researcher Jörgen Wallerman from his team at SLU took part in the EGI2025 conference in Santander, Spain.

Professor Valbuena gave a talk entitled ‘Safeguarding the confidentiality of national forest inventories for the development of country-wide forest maps from airborne laser scanning‘ during the ‘Federated Infrastructures: Building Bridges for Collaborative Science’ session. During his presentation, he focused extensively on FORWARDS’ work in developing the ForestWard Observatory to widely share forest information.

Read a summary of Professor Valbuena’s presentation here

Learn more about the conference here