ecosystems functioning / vegetation dynamics
The EO4Resilience project aims to develop innovative Earth Observation (EO)-based biodiversity indicators to assess forest resilience to drought. By leveraging data from hyperspectral and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) missions, the project seeks to establish a set of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) to monitor and better understand the role of biodiversity in resilience to environmental stress. …
The WorldPeatland project will prototype an improved mapping and monitoring of intact, degraded and cultivated peatlands for conservation, management and restoration worldwide. Integrated indicators to assess peatland condition will be derived from multitemporal trends of hydrology, surface motions, and vegetation biophysical parameters. The tools developed within this collaborative effort will be made available to peatland …
BACKGROUND BIOSPACE25 is the first international conference exclusively dedicated to the application of Satellite Remote Sensing (SRS) across the various dimensions of biodiversity, and addressing the use of Earth Observations in all realms, from terrestrial, freshwater, coastal to marine ecosystems. It is the first edition of a series of BIOSPACE conferences that ESA and its partners intend to organise on …
Convened under the theme Peace with Nature, the 16th Conference of the Parties of the CBD (CBD COP16) held in Cali (Colombia) on 21 Oct – 1 Nov 2024, was the first COP since the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) at COP15 in Montreal where delegates agreed on an ambitious pathway to …
Mateus is an ecological modeler specializing in dynamic vegetation models and working as a part of the biodiversity and climate center of the Senckenberg society for nature research. His background is environmental sciences, having completed a bachelor’s and Master’s in plant ecology at the Federal University of Pernambuco, with studies which focused on the use …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Mateus Dante De Paula. The VESTA (Vegetation Spatialization of Traits Algorithm) project proposes the development of a workflow to map global above and belowground plant traits for the present and future through the integration of a trait-based dynamic global vegetation model (DGVM) and vegetation EO (Earth observation) data. Trait-based …
Paul joined University of Twente in October 2022 as a researcher. His background is in hydrology (Utrecht University), and he specialized in radar remote sensing of vegetation and soil during his PhD at Delft University of Technology. This thesis focused on sub-daily dynamics in agricultural fields, combining ground-based experiments and electromagnetic modelling. At the University …
Samuel is a remote sensing scientist specialised in Earth observation through satellite passive microwave measurements. Following an engineering diploma in computer science and data analysis from Université de Technologie de Compiègne, he earned a PhD from Observatoire de Paris focusing on the measurement of global Land Surface Temperature. Relying on the combination of physical models …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Samuel Favrichon. Vegetation is a central component of the Earth’s system, governing surface water exchanges and constituting one of the largest terrestrial carbon reservoirs. Ongoing disturbances, whether natural or human-induced, combined with the impacts of changing climate, induce rapid alterations on a global scale. Accurate and consistent assessments of …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Javier Pacheco. IRS4BEF seeks to optimise the integration of multi-source remote sensing imagery to quantify plant functional diversity at site scale (e.g., eddy covariance station) and assess Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function relationships. The underlying hypothesis is that missions providing spectral information of different domains could be more informative of the role …
