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BIODIVERSITY+ PRECURSORS EXPRO+ THEME 1 – TERRESTRIAL: Earth Observation for Biodiversity Modelling (EO4Diversity)

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE (NL)

The main EO4Diversity objective and key innovation is to predict and monitor biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems through the integration of state-of-the-art multi-sensor Earth Observation (EO) imagery and products with next-generation ecological models. The project addresses important biodiversity science gaps, including (i) filling data gaps in the geographic, temporal, habitat and taxonomic composition coverage from in …

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BIODIVERSITY+ PRECURSORS EXPRO+ THEME 2 – FRESHWATER (BIOMONDO)

Prime company: BROCKMANN GEOMATICS SWEDEN AB (HEAD (SE)

The European Space Agency (ESA) activity called Biodiversity+ Precursors is acontribution to the joint EC-ESA Earth System Science Initiative launched in February 2020 to jointly advance Earth System Science and its response to the global challenges that society is facing in the onset of this century. The ESABiodiversity+ Precursors include three projects on different themes; …

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Biodiversity in the Open Ocean: Mapping, Monitoring and Modelling (BOOMS)

Prime company: Plymouth Marine Laboratory (GB)

Increasing pressure due to anthropogenic drivers is leading to a reduction of global biodiversity and its associated benefits at the planetary scale. In open ocean (seafloor depth greater than 200 m) the most important direct drivers of biodiversity loss is fishing and extraction of seafood, with a lesser but rapidly increasing importance of climate change, …

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Biodiversity of the Coastal Ocean: Monitoring with Earth observation (BiCOME)

Prime company: Plymouth Marine Laboratory (GB)

Increasing pressure on nature due to anthropogenic drivers is leading to a reduction of global biodiversity and its associated benefits at the planetary scale. In coastal environments, the most important direct drivers of biodiversity loss are fishing, land and sea use, climate change and pollution. These drivers have accelerated in the last 50 years, and …

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Sun–induced fluorescence heterogeneity as a measure of functional diversity

High-resolution images collected over a mixed forest ecosystem with the HyPlant sensor, deployed as an airborne demonstrator of the forthcoming ESA-FLEX satellite have been exploited in this study to explore the potential of a novel metric based on far-red sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (F760) to map the functional diversity of terrestrial ecosystems. Plant functional diversity, defined …

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SEOM Sen2Coral

Prime company: ARGANS LIMITED (GB)

Sen2Coral aims to develop and validate new algorithms relevant for coral reef monitoring based on Sentinel-2 observations, including benthic mapping, coral reef health and mortality as well as bathymetry. The activity will develop open source algorithms  for mapping (habitat, bathymetry, and water quality) and detection change for coral reef health assessment and monitoring as well …

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