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CadasterENV Austria, Multi-Scale and Multi-Purpose Land Cover Monitoring System in Austria

Prime company: GeoVille (AT)

In order to meet the reporting obligations from international conventions, European directives and national legislations, countries are required to produce up to date, detailed and harmonised information on their land cover and its use, at different scales, and for different domains of applications. Austria initiated its Land Information System Austria (LISA) in 2010 with the …

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CadasterENV Sweden, Multi-Scale and Multi-Purpose Land Cover Monitoring System in Sweden

Prime company: METRIA MILJOEANALYS (SE)

In order to meet the reporting obligations from international conventions, European directives and national legislations , countries are required to produce up to date, detailed and harmonised information on their land cover and its use, at different scales, and for different domains of applications. All Swedish stakeholders involved in land cover monitoring have emphasized the …

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EO4CBI: Earth Observation for City Biodiversity Index (DUE Innovator III Series)

Prime company: SPACE 4 ENVIRONMENT (LU)

Capturing the status and trends of biodiversity and ecosystem services in urban landscapes represents an important part of understanding whether a metropolitan area is developing in a sustainable manner. The City Biodiversity Index (CBI) was developed by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) as a tool to evaluate the state of biodiversity in cities and …

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SAR4URBAN: SAR for urbanisation monitoring (DUE Innovator III Series)

Prime company: DLR – GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER (DE)

From the beginning of the years 2000, more than half of the world population live in cities and the overall trend of urbanization is growing at an unprecedented speed. The use of Earth Observations and their integration with other source of information into effective urban planning tools can produce a quantum leap in the capacity …

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GlobWetland Africa: Development of EO Tools for the Conservation, Wise-Use and Effective Management of Wetlands in Africa

Prime company: DHI GRAS A/S (DK)

GlobWetland Africa aims at facilitating the exploitation of satellite observations for the conservation, wise-use and effective management of wetlands in Africa, by providing African stakeholders with EO methods and tools to fulfil their Ramsar obligations and monitor the extent, integrity and conditions of their wetlands. The main project output is a free-of-charge and open-source toolbox …

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GlobDiversity: Development of High-Resolution RS-Enabled EBVs on the Structure and Function of Terrestrial Ecosystems

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH (CH)

A global knowledge of the state of and changes to biological diversity can only be based on a combination of in-situ and remotely sensed observations integrated into a comprehensive biodiversity knowledge system. The needs to integrate satellite observations in a unified and global biodiversity monitoring strategy has been recognised by the Convention on Biological Diversity …

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RS4EBV: Remote Sensing for Essential Biodiversity Variables (DUE Innovator III Series)

Prime company: UN WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE (UN-WCMC) (GB)

Biodiversity is facing a global crisis as evidenced by dramatic declines in species and habitats. Tracking the state of biodiversity requires operational monitoring systems underpinned by robust indicators. While these indicators convey invaluable information to policy makers on the status and trends of biodiversity, their use is hampered due to patchy geographical coverage of input …

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EO4URBAN, Multi-Temporal Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 MSI Data for Global Urban Services (DUE Innovator III Series)

Prime company: KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY IN STOCKHOLM (SE)

More than half of the people on the planet live in cities and the situatiuon will further worsen with another 2.5 billion people expected to move into cities by 2050. The information decision makers need for their urban planning activities are either non-existent, outdated or collected through time-consuming field surveys or visual interpretation of areal …

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GEORICE (DUE Innovator III Series)

Prime company: UNIVERSITE TOULOUSE III – PAUL SABATIER (FR)

The GEORICE innovator addresses research priorities within the Group of Earth Observation Global Agricultural Monitoring (GEOGLAM) initiative related to SAR techniques for rice monitoring. The project developed and demonstrated EO products for crop rice stage monitoring based on the high temporal frequency of Sentinel-1 over the Mekong delta to derive statistics of rice planted area …

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Sentinel-2 for Agriculture (DUE)

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN (BE)

The Sen2-Agri project is designed to develop, demonstrate and facilitate the Sentinel-2 time series contribution to the satellite EO component of agriculture monitoring at national scale. The project will demonstrate the benefit of the Sentinel-2 mission for the agriculture domain across a range of crops and agricultural practices. The project objectives are to provide validated …

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