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The EU SIBERIA was officially concluded during the final project meeting at the DLR's Oberpfaffenhofen site near Munich on the 26-27th October 2000. The map products (comprising the classified forest stock volume maps and the radar image maps) were delivered to our Russian Forestry partners and those attending the meeting had a chance to view a large wall mosaic illustrating the radar information. The final map covered an area of approximately 1 million square kilometres. During the meeting, results from an independent accuracy assessment undertaken by Russian Forestry staff yielded very good results with high accuracies calculated for all of the forest classes. Both European Commission and European Space Agency (ESA) representatives spoke of the excellent management, execution, scientific content and future potential of the research undertaken during the SIBERIA project.

The project produced many internal working notes in the quest to produce a robust and proven methodology for forest classification. These are available for downloading on this web site. Three EU progress reports are also available as well as conference, workshop and seminar presentations. The presentation overheads from the final meeting are also available for downloading. CD's containing this web site and other map products will be shortly available. Please contact Kevin Tansey (see the e-mail listings) if you are interested in obtaining a copy. By the way, the moose shown above is the informal emblem of the project. He first came out of the forest when we were in Russia and has been with us ever since, on our trips to Toulouse, Kiruna and Munich. Our 12th partner (the moose) has contributed significantly to the social side of the project! Enjoy the SIBERIA project web site, some of the best links are shown below.