Conference Agenda

Empowering Governments, NGOs and Civil Society in Conservation from space

Grace Nangendo

WCS - Wildlife Conservation Society, Uganda

Video message from WWF

Aaron Iemma

WWF, Italy

Habitat Mapping and Quality Monitoring: Insights from the Biodiversa+ Habitat Pilot

Mona Naeslund, Sara Wiman

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Sweden

Satellite remote sensing as a key technology for effective nature conservation: The perspective of a national nature conservation authority

Roland Krämer, Christian Schneider, René Höfer, Merlin Schäfer

Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Germany

PEOPLE-ECCO: Enhancing Ecosystems Conservation through Earth Observation Solutions, Capacity Development and Co-design

Louise Willemen¹, Wietske Bijker¹, Andy Dean², Michael Munk³, Matthes Rieke⁴, Mads Christensen³, Silvia Huber³, Marcos Kavlin², Markus Konkol⁴, Martin Pontius⁴, Jan Speckamp⁴, Chiel Stroeven¹, Victor Tang², Olivier Tsui², Jasper Van doninck¹

1: University of Twente - Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Netherlands; 2: Hatfield Consultants, Canada; 3: DHI, Denmark; 4: 52°North Spatial Information Research GmbH, Germany

Innovative collaborative tools for habitat monitoring and conflict prevention through SRS technologies. Insights from the Nature FIRST Project

Boris Hinojo¹, Yago Alonso¹, Federico Cheda¹, Marco Rubinos¹, Alexandra Sallay-Mosoi², Nándor Erős², Cristian Remus², Taras Yamelynets³, Roman Cherepanyn³, Yuriy Andreichuk³, Vladimir Todorov⁴, Ilya Acosta⁴, Nikola Doykin⁴, Nikola Ganchev⁴, Anna Davison⁵, Koen de Koning⁵, Albin Ahmeti⁶, Robert David⁶, Artem Revenko⁶, Linda van Duivenbode⁷, Melanie Arp⁸, Jan-Kees Shakel⁸

1: 3edata ingenieria ambiental, Spain; 2: WWF Romania; 3: WWF Ukraine; 4: Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; 5: Earth Systems and Global Change Group, Wageningen University; 6: Semantic Web Company; 7: dotSpace Foundation; 8: Sensing Clues Foundation

Functional Habitat and Connectivity: Computational Advances for Assessing Cumulative Impacts and Spatial Planning for Biodiversity

Bram Van Moorter¹, Manuela Panzacchi¹, Ilkka Kivimäki², Marco Saerens³

1: Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway; 2: Finnish Institute of Occupational Health; 3: Université catholique de Louvain

Development of an EO4ANK portal including an EO toolbox for the implementation and monitoring of natural climate protection measures in Germany

Thorsten Laufhütte¹, Lena Schultz-Lieckfeld¹, Gregor Weyer², Michael Förster²

1: DLR, DE; 2: LUP GmbH, DE

Expanding a Decision Support System to Inform Conservation Actions with Local Communities and Governments in Tanzania and Uganda Using OPERA Land Surface Disturbance Alerts and Planet Data

Lilian Pintea¹, Devin Jacobs¹, Abigail Pendry², Paul Mjema³, Jurua Michael⁴, Seamus Lombardo⁵, Amy Rosenthal⁵

1: the Jane Goodall Institute, United States of America; 2: Blue Raster LLC, United States of America; 3: the Jane Goodall Institute, Tanzania; 4: the Jane Goodall Institute, Uganda; 5: Planet, United States of America

Scaling image-based marine plankton biodiversity using dynamic satellite seascapes: a contribution of the Southeast U.S. Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (SE US MBON)

Enrique Montes^1,2, Maria T. Kavanaugh³, Tyler Christian^1,2, Frank E. Muller-Karger⁴, Nicole C. Millete⁵, Luke R. Thompson^6,2, Christopher R. Kelble⁷

1: Cooperative Institute for Marine & Atmospheric Studies, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science of the University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA; 2: Ocean Chemistry & Ecosystems Division, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami, Florida, USA; 3: College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA; 4: College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, Florida, USA; 5: Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, Gloucester Pt., Virginia, USA; 6: Northern Gulf Institute, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, USA; 7: Office of Science and Technology, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

Mediterranean 4D seascape based on phytoplankton phenology detected from satellite observations: patterns and drivers

Riccardo Nanni^1,2, Emanuele Organelli¹, Christian Marchese¹, Michela Sammartino², Simone Colella¹, Bruno Buongiorno Nardelli²

1: Istituto di Scienze Marine (ISMAR), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Roma; 2: Istituto di Scienze Marine (ISMAR), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Napoli

Absorption diversity of bloom-forming phytoplankton species, toward hyperspectral remote sensing identification of red tide events?

Maria Laura ZOFFOLI², Pierre GERNEZ¹, Victor POCHIC¹, Amalia Maria DETONI³, Pauline ROUX⁴, Martin HIERONYMI⁵, Henning BURMESTER⁵, Tristan HARMEL⁶, Thomas LACOUR⁷, Rüdiger ROETTGERS⁵

1: Nantes University, France; 2: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy; 3: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain; 4: Institute of Environmental Engineering (ETH Zurich), Switzerland; 5: Helmholtz-Center Hereon, Germany; 6: Magellium, France; 7: Ifremer, France

Phytoplankton assemblage structure off southwestern Iberia: combining complementary approaches to assess variability and underlying drivers

Maria João Lima, Ana Barbosa

Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CIMA), Aquatic Research Network (ARNET), University of Algarve, Portugal

Linking satellites to genes to observe the phytoplankton community structure from space

Roy El Hourany¹, Juan Pierella Karlusich^2,3, Pedro Junger³, Lucie Zinger³, Hubert Loisel¹, Chris Bowler², Marina Levy⁴

1: Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences; 2: FAS Harvard University; 3: Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure; 4: Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentations et Approches Numériques

A satellite-genomics approach to explore phytoplankton iron ecophysiology in the global ocean

Pedro C. Junger¹, Roy El Hourany², Vitushanie Yogaranjan¹, Juan Pierella Karlusich³, Chris Bowler¹

1: Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure (IBENS), École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, PSL Université Paris, 75005 Paris, France.; 2: Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences (LOG), Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale, Univ. Lille, CNRS, IRD, 62930 Wimereux, France.; 3: Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139 Cambridge, MA, USA.

Relationships between shelf-sea fronts and biodiversity studied using Earth observation data

Peter I Miller¹, Emma Sullivan¹, Beth Scott², James Waggitt³, Will Schneider³, Deon Roos², Andrey Kurekin¹, Georgina Hunt², Graham Quartly¹, Juliane Wihsgott¹, Morgane Declerck², Elin Meek¹

1: Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom; 2: University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom; 3: University of Bangor, United Kingdom

Large-scale automated detection of Humpback and Gray whales in satellite imagery using deep-learning for conservation monitoring off California

Ludwig HOUEGNIGAN, Eduardo CUESTA, Darcy BRADLEY

Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain

Harnessing analysis tools for biodiversity applications using field, airborne, and orbital remote sensing data from NASA's BioSCAPE campaign

Michele Thornton¹, Rupesh Shrestha¹, Erin Hestir², Adam Wilson³, Jasper Slingsby⁴, Anabelle Cardoso^3,4

1: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center; 2: University of California, Merced; 3: University at Buffalo; 4: University of Cape Town

ARIES for SEEA

Alessio Bulckaen, Caterina Gilli, Ferdinando Villa

Basque Center for Climate Change, Spain

Prototyping a Policy-Driven Earth Observation Service for Monitoring Critical Wetland Habitats in Natura 2000 Sites

Christelle Vancutsem¹, Meriam lahsaini^1,2, Bruno Combal³, Pavel Milenov⁴, Frank Vassen³

1: JRC, Italy; 2: Arcadia/JRC; 3: DG. ENV.D.3; 4: EEA

Harnessing open-access Earth observation data and artificial intelligence for large-scale wetland habitat mapping

Jennifer Hird¹, Michael Merchant¹, John Simms¹, Thi Minh Thuy Doan¹, Cynthia McClain¹, Lyle Boychuk², Rebecca Edwards², Joshua Evans², Lindsay McBlane², Amanda Cooper³, Danielle Cobbaert³, Nicole Skakun³, Craig Mahoney³

1: Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, Canada; 2: Ducks Unlimited Canada; 3: Government of Alberta, Environment And Protected Areas

Overview of the use of the ESA Sentinel-1 radar and -2 optical images for mapping and monitoring wetland biodiversity in South Africa

Heidi van Deventer^1,2, Laven Naidoo^2,3, Christel Hansen²

1: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa; 2: University of Pretoria; Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, South Africa; 3: Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO), South Africa

Eco-patterns: towards a standardised methodology to assess peatland condition remotely

Eleanor Thomson, Olga Tutubalina, Marcus P. Spiegel, Thomas Fenal

Gentian Ltd, United Kingdom

BIOMONDO - Towards Earth Observation supported monitoring of freshwater biodiversity

Petra Philipson¹, Carsten Brockmann², Miguel Dionisio Pires³, Marieke Eleveld³, Niklas Hahn¹, Tamara Keijzer⁴, Jelle Lever⁵, Daniel Odermatt⁵, Aafke Schipper⁴, Jorrit Scholze², Kerstin Stelzer², Susanne Thulin¹, Tineke Troost³

1: Brockmann Geomatics Sweden AB; 2: Brockmann Consult GmbH; 3: Deltares; 4: PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency; 5: Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Seasons of Lakes: Deriving Phytoplankton Phenology using Earth Observation Data

Clara Backens¹, Jorrit Scholze¹, Kerstin Stelzer¹, Petra Philipson²

1: Brockmann Consult, Germany; 2: Brockmann Geomatics, Sweden

Assessment of eutrophication dynamics of lakes at a large scale by coupling Sentinel-2 remote sensing, machine learning and field observations

Mathilde Joffre^1,2,3, Roxelane Cakir³, Vanessa Dos Santos³, Matheus Tavares², Jean-Michel Martinez², Sabine Sauvage¹

1: Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité et l'Environnement (CRBE), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, Toulouse INP, Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier (UT3), Toulouse, France; 2: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Laboratoire GET (IRD, CNRS, UPS, CNES), Toulouse, France; 3: HETWA, Toulouse, France

Remote-sensing based detection of resilience loss in the terrestrial water cycle

Romi Amilia Lotcheris¹, Nielja Sofia Knecht¹, Lan Wang-Erlandsson^1,2,3, Juan Carlos Rocha Gordo^1,3

1: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden; 2: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibnitz Associations, 14473 Potsdam, Germany; 3: Anthropocene Laboratory, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden

A Full Map of European Intertidal Seagrass.

Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies¹, Simon Oiry¹, Mar Roca², Phillipe Rosa¹, Maria Laura Zoffoli³, Dimitris Poursanidis⁴, Pierre Gernez¹, Laurent Barillé¹

1: University of Nantes, France; 2: University of Cadiz, Spain; 3: Consiglio Nazionale delle Riecerche; 4: Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics/FORTH

Developing EO-based framework for estimating biodiversity variables of coral reef and seagrass ecosystems at Large Scale

Touria Bajjouk¹, Antoine Lavrard-Meyer¹, Audrey Minghelli², Lucas Drumetz³, Pascal Mouquet⁴, Antoine Huguet⁵, Malik Chami⁶, Mauro Dalla Mura⁷, Sophie Loyer⁸, Jean-Baptiste Féret⁹, Magali Duval¹⁰, Sylvain Bonhommeau¹⁰, Lionel Bigot¹¹

1: IFREMER, Centre de Bretagne, DYNECO Laboratoire d'Ecologie Benthique Côtière (LEBCO), Plouzané ,France; 2: Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes (LIS) laboratory, Seatech, University de Toulon, CNRS-UMR 7020, Toulon, France; 3: IMT Atlantique, Lab-STICC, UMR CNRS, Brest, France; 4: UMR Espace-Dev/IRD, France; 5: IFREMER, Centre Atlantique, COAST-LERMPL, Nantes, France; 6: Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Sorbonne Université (UFR 918), France; 7: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP*, GIPSA-lab, Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Grenoble, France; 8: Shom, Direction de la recherche, de l'innovation et des programmes, Brest, France; 9: TETIS, INRAE, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, CNRS, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France; 10: IFREMER, Délégation océan Indien (DOI), Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement (RBE), La Réunion, France; 11: Université de La Réunion-IRD-CNRS-Ifremer-Université de la Nouvelle Calédonie, UMR, La Réunion, France

A innovative approach for remote sensing methods and sensors benchmarking prior to BCE monitoring at large scale.

Benoit Beguet, Rémi Budin, Cécile Curti, Nicolas Debonnaire, Clemence Rozo, Julie Mollies, Amélie Sechaud, Manon Tranchand-Besset, Virginie Lafon, Aurélie Dehouck

i-Sea, France

Improving the assessment of Blue Carbon stock of mangroves using remote sensing along the Amazon coast

Elodie Blanchard¹, Thibault Catry¹, Quentin Marsal¹, Benoit Béguet², Jean-François Faure¹, Gwenaël Abril³, Johanna Jupin⁴, Christophe Proisy^5,6

1: UMR ESPACE-DEV, IRD, Univ. Montpellier, Univ. Guyane, Univ. La Réunion, Univ. Antilles, Montpellier, France; 2: i-Sea, Bordeaux, France; 3: UMR 8067 BOREA, MNHM, CNRS, IRD, SU, UCN, UAG, Paris, France; 4: UMR LOCEAN, IRD, Bondy, France; 5: UMR AMAP, IRD, Cayenne, French Guiana; 6: AMAP, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Space-based monitoring of mangroves for anticipatory Nature-Based Solutions: a three-point research agenda

Christophe PROISY^1,2, Thibault CATRY³, Elodie BLANCHARD³, Paul-Emile AUGUSSEAU^1,2,4, Médie COLLET⁵, Adrien STAQUET^1,2,4, Quentin MARSAL^2,3, Gwenaël ABRIL⁶, Edward ANTHONY⁷, Elodie BORIAU^1,2, Léa ACKERER⁸, Benoit BEGUET⁹, Fabian BLANCHARD⁴, Jean-Bernard DUCHEMIN⁵, François FROMARD¹⁰, Antoine GARDEL⁴, Ludovic GRANJON⁴, Martine HOSSAERT¹¹, Dominique JOLY¹¹, Johanna JUPIN¹², Tanguy MAURY⁴, Christophe PEYREFITTE⁵, Philip ROCHE¹³, Pierre SCEMAMA¹⁴, Olivier THEBAUD¹⁴, Romain WALCKER¹⁰

1: AMAP, IRD, French Guiana, France; 2: AMAP, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, Univ. Montpellier, France; 3: ESPACE-DEV, IRD, Univ. Montpellier, Univ. Guyane, Univ. La Réunion, Univ. Antilles, Montpellier, France; 4: LEEISA, CNRS, IFREMER, Univ. Guyane, French Guiana, France; 5: Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, French Guiana, France; 6: BOREA, MNHN, CNRS, IRD, SU, UCN, UAG, Paris, France; 7: Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, Collège de France, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France; 8: SEPANGUY, Cayenne, French Guiana, France; 9: i-Sea, France; 10: CRBE, CNRS, Univ. Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse INP, IRD; 11: CNRS, Paris, France; 12: LOCEAN, IRD, CNRS, MNHN, Sorbonne Univ., Bondy, France; 13: RECOVER, INRAE, Aix-Marseille Univ., Aix-en-Provence, France; 14: AMURE, IFREMER, CNRS, IRD, Univ. Bretagne Occidentale, Plouzané, France

Multi-scale mapping of charismatic megaflora: leveraging long-term site and regional level spatial data to inform satellite-based remote sensing of kelp forests in British Columbia, Canada

Luba Y. Reshitnyk¹, Ashland Aguilar², Tom W. Bell², Margot Hessing-Lewis¹, Henry Houskeeper², Lauren Man³, Ondine Pontier¹

1: Hakai Institute, Canada; 2: Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute; 3: University of Victoria

Spatiotemporal Evaluation and Hyperspectral Modelling of Microphytobenthos Gross Primary Productivity in France Estuarine Environments

Hajar Saad El Imanni¹, Augustin Debly¹, Regis Gallon², Julien Deloffre³, Adrien Jacotot⁴, Simon Oiry¹, Philippe Rosa¹, Patrick Launeau⁵, Vona Meleder¹

1: Nantes Université, Institut des Substances et Organismes de la Mer, ISOMer, UR 2160, F-44000 Nantes, France; 2: Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers-INTECHMER, Laboratoire Universitaire des Sciences Appliquées de Cherbourg LUSAC, Unicaen, 51000 Cherbourg, France; 3: Université de Rouen, M2C, UMR 6143, CNRS, Morphodynamique Continentale et Côtière, F-76821 Mont Saint Aignan Cedex, France; 4: UMR7327 Institut des sciences de la Terre d'Orléans (ISTO) ,Orleans, France; 5: Université de Nantes, Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique (UMR 6112, CNRS), Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, BP 92208, 44322 Nantes CEDEX 3, France

Effect of Marine and Atmospheric Heatwaves on Reflectance and Pigment Composition of Intertidal Nanozostera noltei

Simon Oiry¹, Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies¹, Philippe Rosa¹, Augustin Debly¹, Maria Laura Zoffoli², Anne-Laure Barillé³, Nicolas Harin³, Pierre Gernez¹, Laurent Barillé¹

1: Institut des Substances et Organismes de la Mer, ISOMer, Nantes Université, UR 2160, F-44000 Nantes, France; 2: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR), 00133 Rome, Italy; 3: Bio-littoral, Immeuble Le Nevada, 2 Rue du Château de l’Eraudière, 44300 Nantes, France

GBIF: Effective use of GBIF-mediated data

Andrew Rodrigues

Data Partnerships Officer, GBIF Secretariat, Copenhagen Denmark

UN Biodiversity Lab: Using spatial data to place nature at the heart of sustainable development

Violeta Munoz, Vincent Blanqué

UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Leveraging Satellite Remote Sensing and Connecting Landscapes: An Introduction to ConScape for High-Resolution Landscape Connectivity Modeling

Bram Van Moorter

Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway

Operationalizing Biodiversity Monitoring

Jan-Erik Petersen¹, Usue Donezar¹, Jose Miguel Rubio¹, Andrus Meiner¹, Pavel Milenov¹, Sander Mucher²

1: European Environment Agency (EEA); 2: Wageningen Environmental Research (WENR)

Overview of Copernicus Land products

Ludvig Forslund

Prod. Owner in CLMS and data analyst at the EEA

Data for ecosystem extent accounts

Pavel Milenov

EEA

In-situ data for Copernicus: Challenges and Opportunities

José Miguel Rubio Iglesias

EEA

Importance of in situ data for European habitat mapping & monitoring

Sander Mucher

Wageningen Environmental Research (WENR), Netherlands, The

Experience with combining satellite methods with on the ground vegetation surveys for habitat mapping at national level

Camilla Jönsson, Mona Naeslund

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), Sweden

Co-designing Earth Observation Solutions for Ecosystems Conservation

Jasper Van doninck¹, Marcos Kavlin², Andy Dean², Michael Munk³, Wietske Bijker¹, Louise Willemen¹

1: University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Netherlands; 2: Hatfield Consultants, Canada; 3: DHI, Denmark

Challenges and opportunities for monitoring grassland and savannah conservation at global and continental scales

Geoff Smith¹, Bruno Combal², Karl Ruf³, Sergio Bolívar Santamaría⁴, Adriana Martin Ramirez⁴, Michelle Chevelev-Bonatti⁴, Stefan Sieber⁴, Leonie Meier⁵

1: Specto Natura Ltd., United Kingdom; 2: DG Environment, European Commission; 3: space4environment sàrl; 4: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research – ZALF; 5: World Wide Fund for Nature – WWF International

Marine biodiversity metrics from space: state of the art, gaps and priorities for advancing biodiversity science and achieving conservation objectives

Victor Martinez Vicente¹, Alice Soccodato², Emmanuele Organelli³, Frank Muller Karger⁴, Vittorio Brando⁵, Maria Laura Zoffoli³, Nicholas Pade², Joana Soares⁵, Lina Mtwana Norlund⁶, Isabel Sousa Pinto Sousa Pinto⁷, Maycira Costa⁸, Elena Gissi^9,10, Stefano Menegon^9,10, Astrid Bracher¹¹

1: Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom; 2: European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC-ERIC), France; 3: National Research Council, Institute of Marine Sciences, Paris, Italy; 4: University of South Florida, USA; 5: Atlantic International Research Centre (AIR Centre), Azores, Portugal; 6: Upsala University, Sweden; 7: University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; 8: University of Victoria, Canada; 9: National Research Council, Institute of Marine Sciences, Venezia, Italy; 10: National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy; 11: Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremenhaven, Germany

Wetland ecosystems

Christian Tøttrup¹, Christoph Schröder², Stéphanie Horion³, Gyula Mate Kovács³, Michael Munk¹, Dania Abdul Malak², María del Mar Otero², Triantafyllia Perivolioti⁴, Anis Guelmami⁵, Jonas Franke⁶

1: DHI, Denmark; 2: University of Malaga, Spain; 3: University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 4: EKBY, Greece; 5: Tour du Valat, France; 6: Remote Sensing Solutions, Germany