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FP7-SPACE-2010.1 G.A. 263435
Dec.2010 - Dec.2013
Coordinator: Dr. Palma Blonda (CNR-IIA)
e-mail: blonda@iia.cnr.it
Project Manager: Dr. Carmela Marangi (CNR-IAC)
e-mail: c.marangi@ba.iac.cnr.it
Officer: Dr. Florence Beroud (REA)
e-mail: florence.beroud@ec.europa.eu
BIO_SOS working objectives:
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To develop novel pre-operational
automatic high spatial resolution (HR), very high spatial resolution (VHR)
EO data understanding techniques and provide land cover/use (LCLU) map
and LC/LU change map generation as Copernicus (GMES) core services;
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To develop an ecological modelling
framework for:
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Combining
EO and in-situ data and provide HR and VHR General Habitat
Categories (GHCs) and Annex 1 Habitat maps as new GMES (Copernicus)
down-stream services
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Quantitative landscape pattern analysis (QLPA) and producing
composite, site/scale specific indicator set for monitoring and
Natura 2000 buffer area identification;
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Ecological
niche modelling (ENM) to evaluate the importance of GHCs as
environmental variables to explain the distribution of the target
species better than LCLU.
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Threat
analysis framework development to use EO data for extracting pressure
trends through direct detection or monitoring of impacts on
landscapes, land cover/habitat types, communities and species.
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BIO_SOS metadata geo-portal development,
compliant with the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), GEOSS and INSPIRE
initiatives.
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The main objective of
BIO-SOS is the development of a
knowledge-based pre-operational ecological modelling
system suitable for effective and timely
multi-annual monitoring of NATURA 2000 sites and
their surrounding areas particularly exposed to
different and combined type of pressures.
Study areas in three Mediterranean and
two Western Europe Countries have been considered. To extrapolate from
European test cases such that the methods can be applied more generally,
additional areas are being considered in two tropical countries (i.e.,
Brazil and India).
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