Conference Agenda

Eyes On Biodiversity: ESA’s Future Optical Earth Observation Missions

Marco Celesti

European Space Agency, Netherlands, The

The future of biodiversity monitoring: New Earth Observation missions and Initiatives from Space AgenciesRadar Imaging Missions - SAR

Nuno Miranda

ESA, Italy

NASA Earth - New U.S. Earth Observing Missions

Woody Turner

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

CNES Space Missions for the Monitoring and Study of Biodiversity

Philippe Maisongrande

CNES, France

Earth Observation missions for Biodiversity Monitoring

Osamu Ochiai

JAXA, Japan

Canada’s upstream SEO assets and nature-related applications development

Lucie Viciano

Canadian Space Agency, Canada

AquaWatch Australia - A ‘weather service’ for water quality

Adriana Para

CSIRO, Australia

Global Ecosystems Atlas: Measure to Manage

Yana Gevorgyan

GEO secretariat, IGO

Increasing engagement of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) with biodiversity

Gary Geller¹, Shaun Levick², Sandra Luque³, Roger Sayre⁴

1: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; 2: CSIRO; 3: INRAE/CNES; 4: USGS

The utility of global ecosystem maps for national ecosystem reporting - A focus on the World Terrestrial Ecosystems

Roger G Sayre

U.S. Geological Survey, United States of America

Availability and use of in situ data for European habitat mapping

Sander Mucher, Stan Los, Stephan Hennekens

Wageningen Environmental Research (WENR), the Netherlands

Mapping ecosystem extent under the SEEA EA framework: complementarity of biodiversity and earth observation data needs

Ioannis Kokkoris¹, Bruno Smets², Lars Hein³, Marcel Buchhorn², Stefano Balbi^4,5, Lori Giagnacovo², Giorgia Milli², Mathilde De Vroey², Giorgos Mallinis⁶, Ján Černecký⁷, Panayotis Dimopoulos⁸, Ferdinando Villa^4,5

1: University of Patras, Department of Sustainable Agriculture, 2 G. Seferi St., 30131 Agrinio, Greece; 2: Remote Sensing Unit, Flemish Institute for Technological Research NV (VITO), 2400 Mol, Belgium; 3: Environmental Systems Analysis Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands; 4: Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Scientific Campus of the University of the Basque Country, Sede Building 1, 1st Floor, Barrio Sarriena S/N, 48940 Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain; 5: IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Plaza Euskadi, 5, 48009 Bilbao, Spain; 6: Laboratory of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (PERS Lab), School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece; 7: Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Akademická 2, Branch Nitra, Slovakia; 8: University of Patras, Department of Biology, Laboratory of Botany, 26504 Patras, Greece

Mapping +30 Years of Mangrove Extent in Tanzania Using Historical Data and Remote Sensing: A Collaborative, Open-Source Approach

Helga U. Kuechly², Mwita M. Mangora^1,5, Sam Cooper³, Simon Spengler², Makemie J. Mabula⁴, Kelvin J. Kamnde^1,5, Carl C. Trettin⁶

1: Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, Buyu Campus, Zanzibar, Tanzania; 2: World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Germany, Germany; 3: Earth Observation Lab, Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; 4: East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), Msasani Peninsula, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; 5: Western Indian Ocean Mangrove Network, Zanzibar, Tanzania; 6: Center for Forest Watershed Research, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Cordesville, SC 29434, USA

Integrating Remote Sensing and Machine Learning for Biodiversity Net Gain Assessments in the United Kingdom

Brianna Pickstone¹, Sareh Rowlands², Richard Delahay³, Karen Anderson¹

1: Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus; 2: Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter; 3: RSK Biocensus, Suites 1-3 Bank House, Bond's Mill, Gloucestershire

Biodiversity from Space: Understanding Large-Scale Patterns of Ecosystem Structure and Diversity with Remote Sensing

Fabian D. Schneider^1,2, Ryan Pavlick^3,2, Ting Zheng⁴, Antonio Ferraz², Natalie Queally⁴, Ethan Shafron^2,5, Morgan Dean⁶, Laura Berman⁴, Zhiwei Ye⁴, Giulia Tagliabue⁷, Philip A. Townsend⁴

1: Aarhus University, Denmark; 2: Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology, USA; 3: NASA Headquarters, USA; 4: University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; 5: University of Montana, USA; 6: University of California Los Angeles, USA; 7: University of Milano-Bicocca, USA

Vegetation structure and plant functional traits predict pollination networks across the tropics

Kendall M. Jefferys¹, Luísa G. Carvalheiro², Adrian Gonzalez-Chaves², Jacobus Petersen¹, Xiongjie Deng¹, Waira S. Machida², Katherine Baldock³, Danilo Boscolo^4,5, Daniel Carstensen⁶, Alice Classen⁷, Patrícia Alves Ferreira^5,8, Breno M. Freitas⁹, Alipio Pacheco Filho⁹, Travis J. Guy¹⁰, Ruben Heleno¹¹, Christopher Kaiser-Bunbury¹², Luciano Elsinor Lopes^5,8, Gabriel Guariglia Perez⁸, Raimunda Gomes Silva Soares⁴, Anna Traveset¹³, Chloe Strevens¹, Jesús Aguirre-Gutierrez¹

1: University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment Oxford, UK; 2: Universidade Federal de Goiás, Department of Ecology, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Goiânia, Brazil; 3: Northumbria University, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom; 4: Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP), São Paulo, Brazil; 5: National Institute of Science and Technology in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution (INTREE), Brazil; 6: University of Copenhagen, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark; 7: University of Würzburg, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Wüzburg, Germany; 8: Federal University of São Carlos, Department of Environmental Sciences, São Carlos, Brazil; 9: Universidade Federal do Ceará, Bee Unit, Department of Animal Sciences, Fortaleza - CE, Brazil; 10: University of Florida, Department of Biology, Gainesville, FL USA; 11: University of Coimbra, Centre for Functional Ecology, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Department of Life Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal; 12: University of Exeter, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Penryn Campus, UK; 13: Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (CSIC-UIB), Global Change Research Group, C/Miquel Marques 21Esporles, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

A Bayesian Framework for Sensor-Agnostic Plant Trait Prediction Using Imaging Spectroscopy

Dhruva Kathuria^1,2, Yoseline Angel^1,3, Evan Lang^1,4, Dana Chadwick⁵, Shawn Serbin¹, Philip G Brodrick⁵, Philip A Townsend⁶, Ting Zheng⁶, Alexey N Shiklomanov¹

1: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; 2: GESTAR II, Morgan State University; 3: ESSIC, University of Maryland; 4: Science Systems and Applications, Inc.; 5: Jet Propulsion Laboratory; 6: University of Wisconsin

Towards estimating vegetation structure from orbit: a case study for tropical forest and TanDEM-X

Andreas Huth¹, Leonard Schulz¹, Kostas Papathanassiou²

1: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig Germany; 2: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen Germany

Exploring the role of vegetation height heterogeneity through LiDAR information for biodiversity estimation

Michele Torresani¹, Vítězslav Moudrý², Duccio Rocchini³, Michela Perrone⁴, Roberto Tognetti⁵

1: Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy; 2: Czech University of Life Sciences Prague; 3: University of Bologna; 4: Czech University of Life Sciences Prague; 5: Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Soil carbon predictions across the landscape using remotely- sensed canopy structure measurements in southern Amazonia

Jessica P. Thomas¹, Andrew M. Cunliffe¹, Hugh A. Graham^1,2, Tom Powell¹, Plinio B. Camargo³, Ted R. Feldpausch¹

1: University of Exeter, United Kingdom; 2: Permian Global, United Kingdom.; 3: University of São Paulo, Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Brazil

Leveraging EO data for biodiversity monitoring and reporting with BON in a Box

Jory Griffith¹, Jean-Michel Lord¹, Guillaume Larocque²

1: GEO BON and McGill University; 2: Québec Centre for Biodiversity Science, Biodiversité Québec, and McGill University

Exploring Marine Biodiversity with OBIS

Silas C. Principe, Pieter Provoost

OBIS - IODE/IOC/UNESCO

A Federated System of Systems approach for increased availability of EO-based biodiversity products

Gary Geller

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Biodiversity in changing terrestrial, aquatic, and marine Ecosystems: Calling for a unifying earth observation perspective

Victor Martinez Vicente¹, Andrew Skidmore², Petra Philipson³, Shubha Sathyendranath¹, Elnaz Neinavaz², Susana Baena⁹, Laurent Barille¹⁴, Stefanie Broszeit¹, Roshanak Darvishzadeh Varchehi², Miguel Pires¹⁰, Marieke Eleveld¹⁰, John Gittings¹¹, Pierre Gernez¹⁴, Daniela Guaras⁹, Chuanmin Hu⁴, Margarita Huesca², Peter Miller¹, Sander Mucher⁸, Frank Muller-Karger⁴, Daniel Odermatt¹², Emmanuele Organelli⁵, Marc Paganini¹⁵, Dionysios Raitsos¹¹, Gabriel Reygondeau⁷, Marie-Helene Rio¹⁵, Sara Si-Moussi⁶, Wilfred Thuiller⁶, Ruben Van De Kerchove¹³

1: Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom; 2: U. Twente, The Netherlands; 3: Brockman Geomatics, Sweden; 4: U. South Florida, USA; 5: CNR, Italy; 6: U. Grenoble, France; 7: U. Miami, USA; 8: U. Wageningen, The Netherlands; 9: UNEP-WCMC, UK; 10: Deltares, The Netherlands; 11: U. of Athens, Greece; 12: EAWAG, Switzerland; 13: VITO, Belgium; 14: U. Nantes, France; 15: ESA-ESRIN, Italy

An EO-based framework for monitoring tropical forests ecosystems in Costa Rica: extent, condition and composition

Jean-Baptiste Féret, Florian de Boissieu, Rémi Cresson, Mona Bonnier, Mairi Souza Oliveira, Samuel Alleaume, Sandra Luque

TETIS, AgroParisTech, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

From Ground to Canopy: Integrating Ground-based Sensors with Remote Sensing to Improve Urban Tree Management

Andres Camilo Zuñiga-Gonzalez¹, Josh Millar², Sarab Sethi², Hamed Haddadi², Michael Dales¹, Anil Madhavapeddy¹, Ronita Bardhan¹

1: University of Cambridge; 2: Imperial College London

Development of an OECD farmland habitat biodiversity indicator with remote sensing – A pilot study for Germany

Marcel Schwieder¹, Christian Levers², Felix Lobert¹, Gideon Tetteh¹, Petra Dieker¹, Stefan Erasmi¹

1: Thünen Institute of Farm Economics, Bundesalle 63, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany; 2: Thünen Institute of Biodiversity, Bundesalle 65, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany

How do Earth Observation Foundation Models Help to Predict Multi-Trophic Soil Biodiversity

Selene Cerna, Sara Si-Moussi, Vincent Miele, Wilfried Thuiller

University of Grenoble Alpes, University Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, 38000, Grenoble, France

Scaling-up island biodiversity monitoring with remote sensing: Insights from the BioMonI project

Samantha Suter¹, Nathaly Guerrero-Ramirez³, Holger Kreft³, Rüdiger Otto Dittmann², Lea de Nascimento Reyes², José María Fernández-Palacios², Martin Ehbrecht³, Vladimir Wingate¹, Clara Zemp¹

1: Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland; 2: Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain; 3: University of Göttingen, Germany

5th International Polar Year - an opportunity for biodiversity assessment across scales

Gabriela Schaepman-Strub

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Looking at the dark side of the Earth: why we need high resolution night images ?

Julien Radoux, Pierre Defourny

Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

A comparative analysis of field-based ecology and remote sensing approaches to plant functional diversity

José Miguel Cerda-Paredes^1,2, Laura C. Pérez-Giraldo¹, Javier Pacheco-Labrador³, Anna K. Schweiger⁴, Miguel D. Mahecha⁵, Javier Lopatin^1,2,6, Dylan Craven^1,7

1: Data Observartory Foundation, Santiago, Chile; 2: Faculty of Engineering and Sciences, Adolfo Ibáñez University, Santiago, Chile; 3: Environmental Remote Sensing and Spectroscopy Laboratory (SpecLab), Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain; 4: Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA; 5: Institute for Earth System Science and Remote Sensing, Leipzig University, Germany; 6: Center for Climate Resilience Research (CR)2, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile; 7: GEMA Center for Genomics, Ecology & the Environment, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile

The death of the Spectral Variation Hypothesis and the rise of its useful ‘Zombies’

Christian Rossi^1,2, Michele Torresani³, Michela Perrone⁴, Leon Hauser¹

1: University of Zurich; 2: Swiss National Park; 3: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano; 4: Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

BOSSE, a Biodiversity Observing System Simulation Experiment for assessing Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function relationships

Javier Pacheco-Labrador^1,2, Ulisse Gomarasca², Daniel E. Pabon-Moreno², Wantong Li², Martin Jung², Mirco Migliavacca³, Gregory Duveiller²

1: Spanish National Research Council, Spain; 2: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany; 3: European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy

Satellite-derived biodiversity effects on the functioning and multifunctionality of ecosystems at global eddy covariance sites

Ulisse Gomarasca^1,2, Gregory Duveiller¹, Javier Pacheco-Labrador³, Alessandro Cescatti⁴, Christian Wirth^1,2,5, Markus Reichstein^1,5, Mirco Migliavacca⁴

1: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, 07745 Jena, Germany; 2: Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany; 3: Environmental Remote Sensing and Spectroscopy Laboratory (SpecLab), Spanish National Research Council, Albasanz 26-28, 28037, Madrid, Spain; 4: European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra 21027 VA, Italy; 5: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

3D biodiversity and ecosystem function: Using lidar and hyperspectral remote sensing to understand ecosystem patterns and processes in a temperate forest

Kyla M Dahlin¹, Meicheng Shen¹, Aaron G Kamoske², Adriana Uscanga³, Scott C Stark¹, Shawn P Serbin⁴, Chris M Gough⁵, Ben Bond-Lamberty⁶, Jason M Tallant⁷, Jeffrey W Atkins²

1: Michigan State University, USA; 2: US Forest Service, USA; 3: University of Minnesota, USA; 4: NASA, USA; 5: Virginia Commonwealth University, USA; 6: Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA; 7: University of Michigan, USA

Quantifying the functional trait variation across tropical forests with satellite data

Jesus Aguirre Gutierrez

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Exploring tree functional diversity with remote sensing over the Congo Basin within the CoForFunc project

Gregory Duveiller¹, Pierre Ploton², Nicolas Barbier², Ulisse Gomarasca¹, Felix Cremer¹, Maria Piles³, Javier Pacheco-Labrador⁴, Jordi Martinez-Vilalta^5,6, Jean-François Bastin⁷, Raphaël Pélissier²

1: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany; 2: AMAP, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CNRS, INRAE, CIRAD, Montpellier, France; 3: Image Processing Laboratory, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain; 4: Environmental Remote Sensing and Spectroscopy Laboratory (SpecLab), Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain; 5: CREAF, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain; 6: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain; 7: Terra teaching and research centre, Gembloux Agro Bio-Tech, Université de Liège, Belgium

The Global Ecosystems Atlas: An Interactive Experience

David Patterson

GEO secretariat, IGO

Accelerating Geospatial Insights: openEO's Scalable and Open Solutions

Hans Vanrompay

VITO, Belgium

Earth Observation, EBVs and indicators to facilitate reporting and progress on international biodiversity targets

Claire Brown¹, Susana Baena¹, Petteri Vihervaara², Maria H. Hällfors², Maria J. Santos³, Elnaz Neinavaz⁴, Margarita Huesca Martinez⁴, Bruno Smets⁵, Eline Vanuytrecht⁵, Claudia Roeoesli⁶, Isabelle Helfenstein⁶, Oliver Selmoni⁶, Meredith C. Schuman⁷, Katie L. Millette⁸

1: UNEP-WCMC, United Kingdom; 2: Nature Solutions, Finnish Environment Institute; 3: Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography, University of Zurich; 4: Department of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente; 5: Environmental Intelligence Unit, Remote sensing | Natural Capital Accounting & Biodiversity, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO); 6: Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland; 7: Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland & Dept. of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland; 8: GEO BON, Department of Biology, McGill University, Canada

Establishing a Global Biodiversity Observation System (GBiOS): What do we have, and what do we need?

Andrew Gonzalez¹, Alice Catherine Hughes²

1: GEOBON / McGill University; 2: University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)/ APBON

Co-designing the European Biodiversity Observation Centre and Network

Andres Camilo Marmol-Guijarro

German Centre of Integrative Biodiversity Research (IDiv), Germany

Data for Asia- what do we know?

Alice Catherine Hughes

University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Innovation journey for the forest monitoring tools developed in FAO

Yelena Finegold

FAO, Italy

Random Thoughts on Starting a GBiOS

Gary Geller

NASA, United States of America

Monitoring Biodiversity with Ecosystem Accounting

Bruno Smets¹, Caterina Gilli², Alessio Bulckaen², Ferdinando Villa², Lars Hein³, Marcel Buchhorn¹

1: VITO, Belgium; 2: Basque Center for Climate Change, Spain; 3: Wageningen University, Netherlands

Farmland Habitat Biodiversity

Talie Musavi¹, Marijn van der Velde¹, Marcel Schwieder², Christian Levers³, Momtchil Iordanov¹, Matteo Marcantonio¹, Stefan Erasmi²

1: European Commission - Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy; 2: Thünen Institute for Farm Economics, Bundesalle 63, 38116 Braunschweig; 3: Thünen Institute for Biodiversity, Bundesalle 65, 38116 Braunschweig

Data Sovereignty and Ethical Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in Space-Based Biodiversity Monitoring

Diana Mastracci^1,2, Jason Duffe³, Kyla M Dahlin⁴, Adriana Uscanga⁵, Gabrielle Crowe⁶, Elsa M Ordway⁷, Erin Hestir⁸, Axayactazi Kuauhtzin⁹

1: Space4innovation; 2: GEO Indigenous Alliance; 3: Environment and Climate Change Canada ECCC; 4: Michigan State University, USA; 5: University of Minnesota, USA; 6: Gabrielino-Shoshone Nation of Southern California; 7: University of California Los Angeles; 8: University of California Merced; 9: Stanford University

Drought-induced changes in ecosystem functioning across Europe: drivers and resilience of European biodiversity hotspots

Christin Abel, Yan Cheng, Guy Schurgers, Stephanie Horion

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Spatial Biodiversity Modeling: The utility of remote sensing to fill gaps in our biodiversity knowledge

Tobias Andermann, Adrian Baggström

Uppsala University, Sweden

Modeling arthropod diversity through space and time with metabarcoding, convolutional neural networks and remote sensing

Adrian Baggström, Tobias Andermann

Uppsala University, Sweden

Bridging the gap between remote sensing phenology and the underlying ecophysiological processes

Sofia Bajocco¹, Carlo Ricotta², Simone Bregaglio¹

1: Council for Agricultural Research and Economics - CREA, Italy; 2: University of Rome, "La Sapienza", Italy

Towards an Accurate High-Resolution Global Canopy Height Model

Vojtěch Barták

Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

Evaluating Sentinel-2-derived spectral biodiversity metrics for forest biodiversity monitoring in African tropical conservation landscapes

Beatriz Bellón¹, Koffi Ambroise Yéboua¹, Frédérique Montfort¹, Jean-Baptiste Féret², Marie Nourtier¹, Virginie Vergnes³, Clovis Grinand¹

1: N’Lab, Nitidæ, Maison de la Télédétection, 500 rue Jean-François Breton, 34093 Montpellier, France; 2: UMR-TETIS, IRSTEA, Maison de la Télédétection, 500 rue Jean-François Breton, 34093 Montpellier, France; 3: Nitidæ, Cocody-Riviera Golf, Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Habitat preferences vary between reintroduced and wild-born Przewalski's horses in the Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area, Mongolia

Anna Bernátková¹, Salvador Arenas-Castro², Oyunsaikhan Ganbaatar³, Martina Komárková^1,5, Neftalí Sillero⁴, Jaroslav Šimek¹, Francisco Ceacero⁵

1: Prague Zoo, Czech Republic; 2: Area of Ecology, Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Cordoba, Spain; 3: We Help Them to Survive Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; 4: CICGE-Centro de Investigação em Ciências Geo-Espaciais Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal; 5: Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic.

The Hyperspectral Bio-Optical Observations Sailing on Tara (HyperBOOST) dataset: relevance for the development and validation of coastal and oceanic biodiversity applications.

Vittorio Ernesto Brando¹, Christian Marchese¹, Margherita Costanzo¹, Federico Falcini¹, Luis Gonzalez Vilas¹, Victor Martinez Vicente², Tom Jordan², David Doxaran³, Isabella Mayot³, Chiara Santinell⁴, Emmanuel Boss⁵, Marie Helene Rio⁶, Javier Alonso Concha⁶

1: CNR-ISMAR, Italy; 2: PML, UK; 3: LOV, FR; 4: CNR-IBF, Italy; 5: Univ. Of Maine, USA; 6: ESRIN, ESA

Exploring the relationship between functional diversity and water use efficiency in a semi-arid grassland using a multi-scale approach

Vicente Burchard-Levine^1,2, Héctor Nieto¹, Javier Pacheco-Labrador², Rosario Gonzalez-Cascon³, David Riaño², Benjamin Mary¹, M.Dolores Raya-Sereno², Miguel Herrezuelo¹, Arnaud Carrara⁴, M.Pilar Martín²

1: Tech4Agro, Institute of Agricultural Sciences (ICA), CSIC, Madrid, Spain; 2: Environmental Remote Sensing and Spectroscopy Laboratory (SpecLab), CSIC, Madrid, Spain.; 3: National Institute for Agriculture and Food Research and Technology (INIA), CSIC, Madrid, Spain.; 4: Fundación Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterráneo (CEAM), 46980 Paterna, Spain.

BioSCape - Advancing remote sensing of biodiversity through an integrated field campaign.

Anabelle Williamson Cardoso^1,2, Adam M. Wilson¹, Erin L. Hestir³, Jasper A. Slingsby², Philip G. Brodrick⁴

1: Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, United States of America; 2: Biological Sciences Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa; 3: CITRIS, University of California Merced, United States of America; 4: Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, United States of America

Earth observation in the framework of the Italian National Forest Inventory for biodiversity monitoring

Gherardo Chirici^1,2, Costanza Borghi¹, Giovanni D'Amico¹, Piermaria Corona², Walter Mattioli², Giancarlo Papitto³

1: Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy; 2: CREA, Italy; 3: Carabinieri, CUFA, Italy

Long-term Dynamics of Coastal Dune Landscapes and Floristic Diversity: Insights from a Quarter Century of Resurveys in Castelporziano Presidential Estate

Elena Cini¹, Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta¹, Simona Sarmati¹, Silvia Del Vecchio², Daniela Ciccarelli³, Flavio Marzialetti^4,5

1: Roma Tre University, Italy; 2: University of Bologna, Italy; 3: University of Pisa, Italy; 4: University of Sassari, Italy; 5: National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy

Combining a trait-based dynamic vegetation model and remote sensing to estimate changes of biodiversity in time

Mateus Dantas de Paula, Thomas HIckler

Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, Germany

Biodiversity Insights from Space, Linking Earth Observations and Biodiversity Science

Roshanak Darvishzadeh¹, Marc Paganini², Jeannine Cavender Bares³, Maria Santos⁴

1: University of Twente, Faculty ITC, Netherlands, The; 2: ESA, ESRIN; 3: Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; 4: University of Zurich, Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography

Analyzing Satellite Scaling Bias Using Drone Data: Application to Microphytobenthos Studies

Augustin Debly¹, Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies¹, Simon Oiry¹, Julien Deloffre², Romain Levaillant², Jéremy Mahieu², Ernesto Tonatiuh Mendoza², Hajar Saad El Imanni¹, Philippe Rosa¹, Laurent Barillé¹, Vona Méléder¹

1: Nantes Université, Institut des Substances et Organismes de la Mer, ISOMer, UR 2160, F-44000 Nantes, France; 2: Univ Rouen Normandie, Univ Caen Normandie, CNRS, M2C, UMR 6143, F-76000 Rouen, France

A new operational approach for landscape characterisation and mapping based on radiometric information

Alexandre Defossez², Louise Lemettais¹, Samuel Alleaume², Sandra Luque², Anne-Elisabeth Laques¹, Yonas Alim³, Simon Madec³, Laurent Demagistri¹, Agnès Bégué³

1: IRD, France; 2: INRAE, France; 3: CIRAD, France

Tree Species Classification and Forest Evolution Using Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing: A Case Study in the Matese Regional Park

Gabriele Delogu¹, Miriam Perretta², Cassandra Funsten², Lorenzo Boccia²

1: Tuscia University, Italy; 2: Federico II University, Italy

Leveraging Remote Sensing and AI to Monitor Functional Traits in Tropical Forests

Xiongjie Deng

Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Plant trait responses to disturbance across the California Sierra Nevada

Carissa DeRanek¹, Fabian D Schneider², K. Dana Chadwick³, Elsa Ordway¹

1: University of California, Los Angeles; 2: Aarhus University; 3: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Estimation of forest EBVs with imaging spectroscopy: two cases studies

Jean-Baptiste Feret², David Sheeren³, Xavier Briottet¹, Adeline Karine¹, Sophie Fabre¹, Marc Lang²

1: ONERA, France; 2: INRAE, France; 3: ENSAT, France

Monitoring the Phenology, Distribution, and Mortality of Keystone Tropical Tree Species from Space

Antonio Ferraz¹, Gary Goran¹, Vicente Vasquez², Helene Muller-Landau³, Evan Gora³, Stephanie Bohlman², Stuart Wright³, John Burley⁴, Sara Beery⁵

1: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA; 2: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA; 3: Smithsonian Institution, Gamboa, Panama; 4: The Australian National University, Camberra, Australia; 5: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Opportunities for monitoring aquatic fungi with earth observation data

Eirik Aasmo Finne¹, Teppo Rämä¹, Jennifer Anderson²

1: The Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT the Arctic University of Norway; 2: Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Integrating remote sensing and biodiversity observations to map plant taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional beta-diversity in the Greater Cape Floristic Region

Matthew Fitzpatrick¹, Xin Chen¹, Andrew Elmore¹, Daniel Spalink², Daijang Li³, Graham Durrheim⁴, John Measey⁵, Suzaan Kritzinger-Klopper⁵, Nicola van Wilgen⁴, Zishan Ebrahim⁴, Andrew Turner⁶

1: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, United States of America; 2: Texas A&M University; 3: The University of Arizona; 4: South African National Parks; 5: Stellenbosch University; 6: CapeNature

Camera traps as ground truth: Refining satellite-based vegetation phenology and land cover mapping across Europe

Magali Frauendorf, Tim Hofmeester

Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden

Monitoring emperor penguin populations by satellite

Peter Fretwell

British Antarctic Survey, United Kingdom

Walrus from space project: citizen scientists found and count walruses in very high-resolution satellite imagery

Peter T. Fretwell¹, Hannah C. Cubaynes¹, Alejandra Vergara-Pena², Rod Downie²

1: British Antarctic Survey, United Kingdom; 2: WWF-UK

Classification of woody vegetation landscape features

Adam Gabrič^1,2, Žiga Kokalj¹

1: Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia; 2: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering

Large cale monitoring of inland freshwater hydrologic parameters to study the functioning of aquatic environments that are being modified by climate change Example of the Garonne river basin

Jean-Paul GACHELIN², Thibaut FERET¹, Jean-Pierre REBILLARD¹, Jean-Christophe POISSON²

1: Agende de l'Eau Adour Garonne, France; 2: vortex-io, France

The USGEO Earth Observation Assessment: characterizing pathways from EO systems to biodiversity and ecosystem objectives

Iris Garthwaite, Kelly Bruno, Ellen Wengert, Gregory Snyder

U.S. Geological Survey, United States of America

Assessing Interactions Among Landscape Connectivity, Climate Change, and Land Use/Cover Transformations Using Earth Observation Data and the PANDORA Model

Federica Gobattoni¹, Raffaele Pelorosso¹, Sergio Noce², Chiara De Notaris², Ciro Apollonio¹, Andrea Petroselli¹, Fabio Recanatesi¹, Maria Nicolina Ripa¹

1: Tuscia University, DAFNE Department, Italy; 2: CMCC Foundation, Viterbo, Italy

Measuring 3D Vegetation Structure from Space: The Potential of Merging LiDAR Observations with Multisource Remote Sensing Data

Sérgio Godinho, Leonel Corado, Juan Guerra-Hernández

University of Évora, Portugal

MMEarth-Bench: Global Environmental Tasks for Multimodal Geospatial Models

Lucia Gordon^1,2, Serge Belongie², Christian Igel², Nico Lang²

1: Harvard University, United States; 2: University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Establishing causal links which facilitate remote sensing of biodiversity metrics

Onkar Gulati, Sadiq Jaffer, Anil Madhavapeddy

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Temporal dynamics of trait-based functional diversity from satellite-based time series

Isabelle Helfenstein¹, Tiziana Koch^1,2, Meredith Schuman^1,3, Felix Morsdorf¹

1: Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland; 3: Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Detecting tree vitality losses in Pinus sylvestris stands from space

Stien Heremans^1,2, Ellen Desie², Ben Somers²

1: Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Havenlaan 88, 1000 Brussels, Belgium;; 2: KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Celestijnenlaan 200E, 3001 Leuven, Belgium;

BioSCape Data Accessibility: What the data is and where to find it

Erin Hestir¹, Adam Wilson², Jasper Slingsby³, Anabelle Cardoso², Philip Brodrick⁴, Michele Thornton⁵

1: University of California Merced, United States of America; 2: University at Buffalo, United States of America; 3: University of Cape Town, South Africa; 4: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States of America; 5: Oak Ridge Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, United States of America

Mapping fractional cover of evergreen broad-leaved species in Italian forests using Sentinel-2 time series

Benedikt Hiebl¹, Giacomo Calvia², Nicola Alessi³, Alessandro Bricca², Gianmaria Bonari⁴, Stefan Zerbe², Martin Rutzinger¹

1: Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Austria; 2: Faculty of Agriculture, Environmental and Food Science, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy; 3: Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Roma, Italy; 4: Department of Life Science, University of Siena, Italy

Developing metrics for Southeast Asia

Alice Catherine Hughes

University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

The dynamics of the Amazon forests and the role of forest structure - linking vegetation modelling and remote sensing

Andreas Huth¹, Leonard Schulz¹, Luise Bauer¹, Rico Fischer¹, Friedrich Bohn¹, Kostas Papathanassiou², Edna Roedig¹

1: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany; 2: German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Satellite Remote Sensing-Based Monitoring of the Relationship Between Low-Salinity Waters and Essential Marine Variables in the East China Sea

Eunna Jang¹, Jong-Kuk Choi¹, Jae-Hyun Ahn¹, Dukwon Bae²

1: Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Korea, Republic of (South Korea); 2: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

Evaluating Transpiration Dynamics in Pedunculate Oak Using Sentinel-2 Imagery: A Study of Spačva Forest, Croatia

Nela Jantol¹, Hrvoje Kutnjak²

1: Oikon Ltd.- Institute of Applied Ecology, Croatia; 2: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Croatia

Challenges and opportunities in satellite-based forest phenology

Ursa Kanjir¹, Ana Potočnik Buhvald², Mitja Skudnik^3,4,

1: ZRC SAZU, Slovenia; 2: Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; 3: Biotechnical Faculty, Universiy of Ljubljana, Slovenia; 4: Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia

deadtrees.earth - an open-access platform for accessing, contributing, analyzing, and visualizing remote sensing-based tree mortality data

Teja Kattenborn¹, Clemens Mosig², Janusch Vajna-Jehle¹, Yan Cheng³, Henrik Hartmann⁴, David Montero², Samuli Junttila⁵, Stéphanie Horion³, Mirela Beloiu-Schwenke⁶, Miguel D. Mahecha²

1: Sensor-based Geoinformatics (geosense), Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Germany; 2: Institute for Earth System Science and Remote Sensing, Leipzig University, Germany; 3: Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 4: Institute for Forest Protection, Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Germany; 5: School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Finland; 6: Department of Environmental Systems Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Reconstructing Historical Ecosystem Structures: Extending GEDI LiDAR Data with Machine Learning for Long-term Change Analysis

Nielja Sofia Knecht, Ingo Fetzer, Juan Rocha

Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden

Integrating AVIRIS-4 Imaging Spectroscopy and In-Situ Data for Grassland Biodiversity Monitoring

Tiziana L. Koch¹, Christian Rossi^1,2, Andreas Hueni¹, Marius Voegtli¹, Maria J. Santos¹

1: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: Swiss National Park, Switzerland

Which aspects of environmental heterogeneity are associated with higher thermal plasticity in European Hypericum populations?

Susanna Koivusaari^1,2, Maria Hällfors³, Marko Hyvärinen², Martti Levo⁴, Miska Luoto¹, Charlotte Møller², Øystein Opedal⁵, Laura Pietikäinen², Andrés Romero-Bravo⁶, Anniina Mattila²

1: Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Finland; 2: Botany Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Finland; 3: Nature Solutions Unit, Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland; 4: Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics group, Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland; 5: Department of Biology, University of Lund, Sweden; 6: Plant Evolutionary Ecology Lab, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Remote sensing insights on phenological properties of plant communities in coastal wetlands

Javier Lopatin^1,2,3, Rocío A. Araya-López⁴, Iryna Dronova⁵

1: Faculty of Engineering and Science, University Adolfo Ibáñez, Diagonal Las Torres 2640, Peñalolén, Santiago, Chile; 2: Data Observatory Foundation, ANID Technology Center No. DO210001, Chile; 3: Center for Climate Resilience Research (CR)2, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile; 4: Deakin Marine Research and Innovation Centre, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood Campus, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia; 5: Departments of Environmental Science, Policy & Management (Rausser College of Natural Resources) and Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning (College of Environmental Design), University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-2000, USA

Spatio-temporal analysis of remote sensing ecological indices to model insect migratory dynamics

Roger López-Mañas^1,3, Joan Pere Pascual-Díaz¹, Clément P. Bataille⁴, Cristina Domingo-Marimon², Gerard Talavera¹

1: Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona, 08038 Catalonia, Spain; 2: Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Grumets Research Group, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193 Catalonia, Spain; 3: Departament de Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia (BABVE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ES-08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain; 4: University of Ottawa, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ottawa, K1N 7N9 Canada

From satellites to smartphones: harnessing citizen science and Earth observation to unlock global perspectives on plant functional diversity

Daniel Lusk¹, Sophie Wolf², Daria Svidzinska³, Jens Kattge^3,4, Francesco Maria Sabatini^3,5,6, Helge Bruelheide⁶, Gabriella Damasceno³, Álvaro Moreno Martínez⁷, Teja Kattenborn¹

1: Department for Sensor-based Geoinformatics, University of Freiburg; 2: Remote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research, Leipzig University; 3: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig; 4: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; 5: BIOME Lab, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna; 6: Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg; 7: Image Signal Processing Group, Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), University of Valencia

Assessing Biodiversity and Functional Traits of Tree Communities at Fine Scale Using Advanced Remote Sensing Techniques

Felipe Martello, Alice Rosen, Eleanor Thomson, Cecilia Dahlsjö, Yadvinder Malhi, Jesus AGuirre-Gutierres

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Satellite remote sensing monitoring of phytoplankton diversity trends in the Mediterranean Sea

Gonzalo Martínez Fornos^1,2,3, Annalisa Di Cicco⁴, Marco Talone^1,2, Elisa Berdalet²

1: Barcelona Expert Centre, Barcelona, Spain; 2: Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain; 3: Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; 4: Istituto di Scienze Marine (ISMAR-CNR), Rome, Italy

Assessment of spectral eco-physiological traits of forests affected by Prunus serotina and Robinia pseudoacacia invasions in Central Europe using multispectral Sentinel-2 imagery

Flavio Marzialetti^1,2, Sebastian Bury³, André Große-Stoltenberg^4,5, Vanessa Lozano^1,2, Giuseppe Brundu^1,2, Marcin K. Dyderski³

1: Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Sassari, Viale Italia 39/a, 07100 Sassari, Italy; 2: National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Piazza marina 61, 90133 Palermo, Italy; 3: Institute of Dendrology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Parkowa 5, 62-035 Kórnik, Poland; 4: Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management (ILR), Research Centre for BioSystems, Land Use and Nutrition (iFZ), Justus Liebig University Gießen, Gießen; 5: Center for International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU), Justus Liebig University Gießen, Gießen

The GEO Indigenous Alliance: Bridging Knowledge Systems for Biodiversity Protection

Diana Mastracci

Space4innovation / Geo Indigenous Alliance, Czech Republic

A road map for the digital platform of the Italian National Biodiversity Future Centre

Simone Mereu^1,3, Giuseppe Brundu^2,3, Donatella Spano^2,3

1: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Bioeconomia, CNR-IBE, Sassari, Italy; 2: Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; 3: National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Piazza Marina 61 (c/o palazzo Steri), Palermo, Italy

Sentinel-1 time series for forest moisture monitoring

David Moravec^1,2

1: TU Dresden; 2: Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Applying novel satellite technology to inform design and evaluation of urban Nature Based Solutions.

Michael Munk, Mads Christensen, Nicklas Simonsen, Kenneth Grogan, Lars Boye Hansen

DHI, Denmark

Empowering Indigenous Knowledge for Biodiversity Monitoring with Earth Observation Data.

Elizabeth Grace Murray¹, Francisco Campuzano², Patrick Gorringe³, Aden Re⁴

1: A Liquid Future, France; 2: CoLAB +ATLANTIC, Portugal; 3: Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute; 4: North Maluku Provincial Government, Indonesia

Predicting vegetation Ecosystem Functional Properties in EU from space: opportunities and challenges

Lorenza Nardella¹, Gaia Vaglio Laurin¹, Alessandro Sebastiani², Carlo Calfapietra¹, Bartolomeo Ventura³, Anna Barbati⁴, Riccardo Valentini⁴, Dario Papale⁴

1: CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy; 2: ENEA Agenzia Nazionale - Centro Ricerche Casaccia; 3: EURAC; 4: DIBAF Università della Tuscia

Mudflat microphytobenthos detection and associated carbon flux: preliminary results from a Canadian site

Naaman M. Omar¹, Myriam A. Barbeau¹, Christopher YS Wong¹, Courtney Allen¹, Abigail Dickinson¹, Jeff Ollerhead², Amanda Loder³, Graham Clark⁴, Eke I. Kalu¹, Adrian Reyes-Prieto¹, Damith Perera⁴, Diana J. Hamilton², Douglas A. Campbell², Vona Méléder⁵

1: University of New Brunswick, Canada; 2: Mount Allison University, Canada; 3: Environment & Climate Change, Canada; 4: St. Francis Xavier University, Canada; 5: Nantes Université, France

Improved tree diversity monitoring by combining satellite and aerial images

Daniel Ortiz-Gonzalo, Dimitri Gominski, Martin Brandt, Rasmus Fensholt

University of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Denmark

Forest structure observation using interferometric and tomographic synthetic aperture radar measurements: Current understanding and open questions

Matteo Pardini, Lea Albrecht, Noelia Romero-Puig, Roman Guliaev, Konstantinos Papathanassiou

German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Fusing optical and SAR satellite imagery for Ecosystem Extent mapping in the Great Western Woodlands, Australia.

Adriana Sofia Parra Ruiz, Zheng-Shu Zhou, Matt Garthwaite, Shaun Levick

CSIRO, Australia

Monitoring Climatic Anomalies and Vegetation Functioning in Italian Protected Areas through Satellite and Climatic Indices

Martina Perez, Nicola Alessi, Giulia Marchetti, Emiliano Agrillo, Emanuela Carli, Laura Casella, Alice Pezzarossa, Francesca Pretto, Pierangela Angelini

ISPRA (Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale), Rome (Italy)

Taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of plants as mediators of stability in mountain ecosystems: A Study in the Central Andes of Chile

Laura C. Pérez-Giraldo¹, Javier Lopatin^1,2, Dylan Craven^1,3, José Miguel Cerda-Paredes^1,2

1: Data Observatory, Chile; 2: Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile; 3: Universidad Mayor, Chile

Two decades of Spectral Variation Hypothesis: advances and challenges in estimating biodiversity with remote sensing

Michela Perrone¹, Christian Rossi², Duccio Rocchini^1,3, Leon T. Hauser⁴, Jean- Baptiste Féret⁵, Vítězslav Moudrý¹, Petra Šímová¹, Carlo Ricotta⁶, Giles M. Foody⁷, Patrick Kacic⁸, Hannes Feilhauer⁹, Marco Malavasi¹⁰, Roberto Tognetti¹¹, Michele Torresani¹¹

1: Department of Spatial Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic; 2: Department of Geoinformation, Swiss National Park, Switzerland; 3: BIOME Lab, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy; 4: Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland; 5: TETIS, INRAE, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, CNRS, Université Montpellier, France; 6: Department of Environmental Biology, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy; 7: School of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK; 8: Department of Remote Sensing, University of Würzburg, Germany; 9: Remote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research, University of Leipzig, Germany; 10: Department of Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Sassari, Italy; 11: Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy

Earth Observation data for changes analysis in italian terrestrial ecosystems due to wildfires disturbance

Alice Pezzarossa, Emiliano Agrillo, Roberto Inghilesi, Alessandro Mercatini, Nazario Tartaglione

Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA)

The role of seasonality in remote sensing predictors for bird species distribution models

Dominika Prajzlerová

Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic

Cracking Humboldts Enigma by Earth Observation

Erik Prins

Prins Engineering, Denmark

A Novel Marine Photosynthesis Index for Enhanced Monitoring of Coastal Marine Ecosystems

Erik Prins

Prins Engineering, Denmark

Vegetation and spectral diversity across wetlands, forests, and tundra in northern boreal landscapes

Pauli Putkiranta¹, Aleksi Räsänen^2,3, Tarmo Virtanen¹

1: University of Helsinki, Finland; 2: University of Oulu, Finland; 3: Natural Resources Institute Finland

Vegetation dynamics in an alpine protected area, the Gran Paradiso National Park (NW Italy) from a remote sensing perspective

Chiara Richiardi^1,2, Consolata Siniscalco², Maria Patrizia Adamo³

1: Laboratory Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Division Anthropic and Climate Change Impacts, ENEA, Saluggia (VC), Italy; 2: Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, Via Pier Andrea Mattioli 25, 10125 Turin, Italy; 3: National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research (IIA), c/o Interateneo Physics Department, Via Amendola 173, 70126 Bari, Italy

Characterization of 4D Forest Structure by Integrating LiDAR and InSAR Measurements

Noelia Romero-Puig, Matteo Pardini, Lea Albrecht, Roman Guliaev, Kostas Papathanassiou

German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Does 3D forest structure predict resilience to drought?

Alice Rosen¹, Thomas Ovenden², Jesus Aguirre-Gutiérrez¹, Tommaso Jucker³, Roberto Salguero-Gómez¹

1: University of Oxford; 2: Forest Research; 3: University of Bristol

Vegetation resilience decreases at the transitional zones of Earth’s forest biomes

Katharina Runge¹, Miguel Berdugo², Yohana Jimenez³, Camille Fournier de Lauriere⁴, Thomas Lauber¹, Jean-François Bastin⁵, Thomas Crowther¹, Lalasia Bialic-Murphy¹

1: Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; 2: Departemento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain; 3: Instituto de Ecología Regional, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina; 4: Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; 5: TERRA Teaching and Research Centre, Gembloux Agro Bio-Tech, University of Liege, Belgium

Assessing the effectiveness of floristic and hydrogeomorphic classification systems in capturing wetland ecosystem functional groups

Maleho Mpho Sadiki^1,3, Heidi van Deventer^1,2, Christel Hansen¹

1: University of Pretoria, South Africa; 2: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, South Africa; 3: Digital Earth Africa

Satellite-based chlorophyll-a “Extreme Highest” and “Extreme Anomalous” indices for the analysis of long-term series of phytoplankton blooms in European seas.

Yolanda Sagarminaga, Angel Borja, Almudena Fontán

AZTI, Marine Research, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA)

ESA’s Impact on Biodiversity: Pilot Assessment

Marta Salieri Lopez

ESA, France

Linking Bird Biodiversity and Structural Diversity in South Tyrol’s Riparian Forests: Insights from Remote Sensing and Acoustic Data

Chiara Salvatori^1,2, Irene Menegaldo², Michele Torresani², Enrico Tomelleri²

1: Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy; 2: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Retrieving Pigments from Multispectral Radiometry Using Machine Learning for Ecosystem Monitoring

Borja Sánchez-López^1,2, Marco Talone^1,2, Jesus Cerquides³, Annalisa Di Cicco⁴, Emanuele Organelli⁴

1: Barcelona Expert Center, Barcelona, Spain; 2: Institut de Ciències del Mar, ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain; 3: Instituto de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial, IIIA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain; 4: Istituto di Scienze Marine, ISMAR-CNR, Rome, Italy

Social-ecological interactions in tropical ecosystems: developing a set of science questions within PANGEA

Maria J. Santos¹, Marius von Essen², Hannah Stouter², Ane Alencar³

1: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: University of California Los Angeles, USA; 3: Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia

Potential of satellite remote sensing for complementing long-term biodiversity monitoring for the German Natural Climate Protection Action Programme

Merlin Schaefer¹, Claudia Hildebrandt¹, Rene Hoefer¹, Christian Schneider¹, Roland Kraemer², Wiebke Zueghart¹

1: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Germany; 2: National Monitoring Centre for Biodiversity, Germany

Denoising Diffusion Models for the Augmentation of Optical Satellite Datasets

Sina Tabea Schulte Strathaus^1,2, Jan Luca Loettgen¹

1: Technical University of Munich, Germany; 2: University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Using satellite data time series to investigate phenological characteristics of invasive aquatic plant species across gradients

Alessandro Quirino Scotti¹, Mariano Bresciani¹, Claudia Giardino^1,2, Monica Pinardi¹, Paolo Villa¹

1: CNR - National Research Council, Italy; 2: National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC)

ESA Coastal Blue Carbon Project : Towards Earth-Observation-based solutions for coastal blue carbon monitoring

Amélie SÉCHAUD¹, Benoit BEGUET¹, Manon TRANCHAND-BESSET¹, Virginie LAFON¹, Aurélie DEHOUCK^1,2, Christophe PROISY³, Thibault CATRY³, Elodie BLANCHARD³, Marlow PELLATT⁴, Karen KOHFELD⁴, Oscar SERRANO⁵, Miguel A. MATEO⁵, Marie-Aude SÉVIN⁶, Timothée COOK⁶, Pierre COAN⁶, Alvise CA'ZORZI⁶, Christine DUPUY⁷, Imad EL-JAMAOUI⁷, Natacha VOLTO⁷, Nicolas LACHAUSSEE⁷, Fanny NOISETTE⁸

1: i-Sea, France; 2: Vois-là, Canada; 3: Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), France; 4: Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada; 5: Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes (CEAB), CSIC, Spain; 6: BlueSeeds, France; 7: Littoral Environnement et Sociétés (LIENSs), UMR 7266, CNRS-La Rochelle Université, France; 8: Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), Canada

Assessing change in vegetation in the last 18 years on Pianosa Island (Italy) pairing remote sensing data with taxonomic and functional diversity.

Eugenia Siccardi, Mariasole Calbi, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Alice Misuri, Bruno Foggi, Lorella Dell'Olmo, Daniele Viciani, Michele Mugnai

University of Florence, Italy

EO foundation models for large-scale biodiversity modeling across taxonomic realms

Sara Si-Moussi, Joaquim Estopinan, Wilfried Thuiller

University of Grenoble Alpes, University Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, 38000, Grenoble, France

FOREST FUNCTIONAL TRAITS FROM SATELLITE IMAGERY

Giulia Tagliabue, Cinzia Panigada, Beatrice Savinelli, Luigi Vignali, Micol Rossini

University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

European forests phenology as seen by MODIS Leaf Area Index and GEDI Plant Area Index

Gaia Vaglio Laurin⁴, Alexander Cotrina-Sanchez¹, David Coomes², James Ball², Amelia Holcomb³, Carlo Calfapietra⁴, Riccardo Valentini⁴

1: Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food, and Forestry Systems, Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy.; 2: Conservation Research Institute, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.; 3: Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; 4: Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems, National Research Council, Montelibretti Research Area, Italy

Linking spectral, phylogenetic and functional diversity of wetland plant communities

Paolo Villa¹, Rossano Bolpagni², Maria B. Castellani^3,4, Andrea Coppi⁴, Alice Dalla Vecchia², Lorenzo Lastrucci⁵, Erika Piaser^1,6

1: National Research Council (CNR-IREA), Milano, Italy; 2: University of Parma, Parma, Italy; 3: National Research Council (CNR-IBBR), Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; 4: University of Florence, Firenze, Italy; 5: University of Florence, Natural History Museum, Firenze, Italy; 6: Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Remote sensing of plant diversity from terrestrial to aquatic systems – a case study in Italy

Paolo Villa¹, Rossano Bolpagni², Alice Dalla Vecchia², Erika Piaser^1,3, Cong Xu⁴, Yuan Zeng⁴, Zhaoju Zheng⁴

1: National Research Council (CNR-IREA), Milano, Italy; 2: University of Parma, Parma, Italy; 3: Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy; 4: Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIR-CAS), Beijing, China

From Space to Species: Leveraging Geospatial Data and Species Observations to Enhance Biodiversity Monitoring and Reporting in Alberta, Canada

Shannon Wagner¹, Monica Kohler¹, Katherine Maxcy¹, David Roberts², Jennifer Hird¹

1: Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, Canada; 2: Innotech Alberta, Canada

Inclusive international collaboration in biodiversity field and remote sensing campaigns - Lessons from BioSCape in South Africa

Adam M Wilson¹, Erin Hestir², Jasper Slingsby³, Anabelle Cardoso¹, Phil Brodrick⁴

1: University at Buffalo, United States of America; 2: University of California, Merced, United States of America; 3: University of Cape Town, South Africa; 4: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States of America

Modelling savanna vegetation structure using Synthetic Aperture Radar and spaceborne lidar: A case study in Kruger National Park, South Africa

Marco Wolsza¹, Sandra MacFadyen^2,3, Jussi Baade⁴, Tercia Strydom⁵, Christiane Schmullius¹

1: Department for Earth Observation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07737 Jena, Germany; 2: Mathematical Biosciences Lab, Stellenbosch University, 7600 Stellenbosch, South Africa; 3: National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS), 7600, Stellenbosch, South Africa; 4: Department of Geography, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07737 Jena, Germany; 5: Scientific Services, South African National Parks (SANParks), Private Bag X402, 1350 Skukuza, South Africa

From Ground to Canopy: Integrating Ground-based Sensors with Remote Sensing to Improve Urban Tree Management

Andres Camilo Zuñiga-Gonzalez², Josh Millar¹, Sarab Sethi¹, Hamed Haddadi¹, Michael Dales², Anil Madhavapeddy², Ronita Bardhan²

1: Imperial College London; 2: University of Cambridge