Cristina L. Abad

Professor for Distributed Systems, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) Guayaquil, Ecuador

cabadr@espol.edu.ec
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Forests in transition: the ROOT research project makes changes visible and usable

News
16 April 2026

To mark the conclusion of the “ROOT – Real-Time Earth Observation of Forest Dynamics and Biodiversity” project, the “ROOT Forest Monitor” app was unveiled, which is already available for practical use.

Digital society

Real-time earth Observation of fOrest dynamics and biodiversiTy (ROOT)

Project

In the course of accelerated climate change, provisioning of digital information on dynamics in forests plays a key role for climate change-appropriate and sustainable forest management.

Publications

  • Herbst, Nikolas; Kortmann, Mareike; Jaggy, Niklas; Thonfeld, Frank; Abad, Cristina L.; Kuenzer, Claudia; Müller, Jörg; Kounev, Samuel (2025)

    Continuous Earth Observation of Forest Dynamics and Biodiversity

    Journal article
    Association for Computing Machinery, Commun. ACM, Volume: 68, Nr. 7, P. 102, New York, USA
    DOI: 10.1145/3724501
    https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3724501
    Project: ROOT
  • Santillan, Steven; Abad, Cristina L. (2026)

    How are HPC, Edge and Serverless Architectures Built in the Cloud Continuum? An empirical analysis of cloud architectures in AWS

    Journal article
    International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing
    DOI: 10.1007/s44227-026-00121-3
    Project: ROOT