Conference Agenda

State of Nature Metrics for Piloting Update post consultation

Joseph William Bull

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Message from UNEP

Romie Goedicke

UNEP FI

Message from World Bank

Nagaraja Rao Harshadeep

World Bank

Leveraging Earth Observation for Nature Finance

Nicola Ranger

Director, Global Finance Group, University of Oxford Co-I, LEON

Advancing 1km2 species distribution EBVs for biodiversity monitoring and planning: progress and challenges

Walter Jetz^1,2, Beth Gerstner^1,2, Kevin Winner^1,2, John Wilshire^1,2, Eva Lyu^1,2

1: Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, United States of America; 2: Yale University, United States of America

From presence-only to abundance species distribution models using transfer learning

Benjamin Bourel¹, Alexis Joly¹, Maximilien Servajean^2,3, Simon Bettinger⁴, José Antonio Sanabria Fernández⁵, David Mouillot⁴

1: Inria, University of Montpellier, LIRMM, CNRS, Montpellier, France; 2: LIRMM, University of Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France; 3: AMIS, Paule Valery University, Montpellier, France; 4: MARBEC, University of Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD,Montpellier, France; 5: CRETUS, Department of Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Predicting species distributions in the open ocean using satellite-derived environmental data and convolutional neural networks

Gaétan Morand¹, Alexis Joly², Tristan Rouyer¹, Titouan Lorieul², Julien Barde¹

1: UMR Marbec, IRD, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer - Montpellier, France; 2: INRIA, Montpellier, France

Mapping more of biodiversity: integrating spatial and phylogenetic information to improve data-deficient species distributions

Shubhi Sharma^1,2, Jeremy Cohen^1,2, Walter Jetz^1,2

1: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, Yale University, United States of America; 2: Biodiversity and Global Change Center, Yale University

An interactive tool to monitor species genetic diversity from Earth observations

Oliver Selmoni¹, Simon Pahls¹, Isabelle S. Helfenstein¹, Jean-Michel Lord², Jory Griffith², Victor J. Rincon-Parra³, Sean Hoban⁴, Alicia Mastretta-Yanes⁵, Cristiano Vernesi⁶, Katie L. Millette², Wolke Tobon-Niedfeldt⁷, Clement Albergel⁸, Deborah M. Leigh⁹, Sophie Hebden⁸, Micheal Schaepman¹, Linda Laikre¹⁰, Ghassem R. Asrar¹¹, Claudia Roeoesli¹, Meredith C. Schuman¹

1: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: GEO BON, McGill University, Canada; 3: Université de Sherbrooke, Canada; 4: Morton Arboretum, USA; 5: National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico; 6: Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy; 7: Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), Mexico; 8: European Space Agency (ESA); 9: Research Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape (WSL), Switzerland; 10: Stockholm University, Sweden; 11: Universities Space Research Association, Washington, DC, USA

Monitoring biodiversity with ecological niche models and time series of remote sensing products

Neftalí Sillero¹, João Alírio², Nuno Garcia¹, Inês Freitas¹, João Campos¹, A. Márcia Barbosa¹, Salvador Arenas Castro³, Isabel Pôças⁴, Lia Duarte^2,5, Ana Cláudia Teodoro^2,5

1: CICGE - Centro de Investigação em Ciências GeoEspaciais, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto; 2: Earth Sciences Institute (ICT), Pole of the FCUP, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal; 3: Area of Ecology – Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Sciences (University of Cordoba). Campus de Rabanales. 14014 Córdoba, Spain; 4: CoLAB ForestWISE - Collaborative Laboratory for Integrated Forest & Fire Management, Quinta de Prados, Campus da UTAD, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal; 5: Department of Geosciences, Environment and Land Planning, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua Campo Alegre, 687, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal

Walruses from Space: walrus counts from simultaneously captured remotely piloted aircraft system imagery vs very high-resolution satellite imagery

Peter T. Fretwell¹, Hannah C. Cubaynes¹, Jaume Forcada¹, Kit M. Kovacs², Christian Lydersen², Rod Downie³

1: British Antarctic Survey, United Kingdom; 2: Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway; 3: WWF-UK, United Kingdom

Albatrosses From Space: A citizen science approach to monitor remote colonies using satellite imagery

Marie R. G. Attard¹, Richard A. Phillips¹, Sally Poncet², Steffen Oppel³, Ellen Bowler¹, Peter Fretwell¹

1: British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK; 2: South Georgia Surveys, FIQQ 1ZZ, Stanley, Falkland Islands; 3: RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, The Lodge, Sandy, UK

MagGeo – A data fusion tool to link Earth's magnetic data from Swarm Mission to Wildlife GPS trajectories

Fernando Benitez-Paez

The University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Monitoring forest ecosystem restoration with FERM and SEPAL geospatial tools

Yelena Finegold, Carmen Morales Martin, Pooja Pandey, Hasan Awad

FAO, Italy

Mapping individual tree mortality using sub-meter Earth observation data: Advances toward a large-scale global database

Samuli Junttila¹, Anis Ur Rahman¹, Einari Heinaro¹, Antti Polvivaara¹, Mete Ahishali¹, Minna Blomqvist¹, Tuomas Yrttimaa¹, Nataliia Rehush², Markus Holopainen³, Eija Honkavaara⁴, Juha Hyyppä⁴, Ville Laukkanen⁵, Mikko Vastaranta¹, Heli Peltola¹, Clemens Mosig^7,8, Teja Kattenborn⁹, Kristjan Ait⁶, Miroslav Svoboda¹⁰, Yan Cheng¹¹, Stephanie Horion¹¹

1: School of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology, University of Eastern Finland; 2: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland; 3: Department of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Finland; 4: Department of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry, Finnish Geospatial Institute (FGI) of National Land Survey of Finland; 5: KOKO Forest Ltd., Helsinki, Finland; 6: Institute of Forestry and Engineering, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia; 7: Institute for Earth System Science and Remote Sensing, Leipzig University, Germany; 8: Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI), Germany; 9: Sensor-based Geoinformatics (geosense), University of Freiburg, Germany; 10: Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech Republic; 11: Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Reclaiming the Forest: Indigenous-Led Reforestation and Carbon Monitoring in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Mario Vargas Shakaim^1,2, Diana Mastracci^1,2

1: Geo Indigenous Alliance; 2: Space4Innovation

RestorEO – Towards an EO-based monitoring system for biodiversity and ecosystem restoration in Austria

Janik Deutscher¹, Manuela Hirschmugl^1,2, Petra Miletich¹, Florian Lippl², Martin Puhm¹

1: Joanneum Research, Austria; 2: University Graz, Austria

Linkages Between Condition Indicators and the Flood Control Ecosystem Service in the Urban Ecosystem

Mayra Alejandra Zurbaran Nucci¹, Sara Vallecillo²

1: European Commission, DG JRC, Italy; 2: Unisystems Luxembourg Sarl, Luxembourg

A multisource adaptive strategy for the characterization and monitoring of ecological corridors by remote sensing.

Virginie Lafon, Rémi Budin, Benoit Beguet, Clemence Rozo, Nicolas Débonnaire, Nicolas Durou

i-Sea, France

Spatiotemporal patterns of Amazonian canopy mortality revealed by remote sensing time series

Kristian Bodolai¹, Anastasia Kozhevnikova², Stephanie Earp¹, Pablo Sánchez-Martínez², Patrick Meir², Edward Mitchard¹

1: Space Intelligence; 2: School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh

Understanding 3D Structural Signature of Biodiversity Traits in Dry Forests

Atticus Stovall^1,2, Shukhrat Shokirov^2,3, John Armston², Lisa Patrick Bentley⁴, Kim Calders⁵, Mathias Disney⁶, Lola Fatoyinbo¹

1: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States of America; 2: University of Maryland, United States; 3: TIIAME National Research University, Uzbekistan; 4: Sonoma State University, United States; 5: Ghent University, Belgium; 6: University College London, United Kingdom

Open tools for conservation and restoration impact evaluation

Jasper Van doninck, Wietske Bijker, Louise Willemen

University of Twente - Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Netherlands

Quantifying the relationship between forest structural diversity and forest resilience.

Mark Pickering¹, Agata Elia², Marco Girardello³, Giovanni Forzieri⁴, Gonzalo Oton³, Matteo Piccardo², Guido Ceccherini³, Mirco Migliavacca³, Alessandro Cescatti³

1: Joint Research Centre Consultant, Ispra, Italy; 2: European Space Research Institute, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy; 3: Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy; 4: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Monitoring Biodiversity Change to Guide Conservation Action Using AI and Satellite Time-Series

Antonio Ferraz¹, Steven Lu¹, Sam Berndt¹, Steffen Maurceri¹, Fabian Schneider²

1: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Los Angeles, USA; 2: Aarhus University, Aarhus, Danmark

Evaluating the impacts of disturbance on forest carbon and structure across the wet tropics using near-coincident GEDI shots

David Coomes¹, Amelia Holcomb², Srinivasan Keshav²

1: Conservation Research Institute and Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2: Conservation Research Institute and Dept of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Functional Trait Responses to Drought in a temperate forest: Insights from Earth Observation

Micol Rossini¹, Beatrice Savinelli¹, Cinzia Panigada¹, Giulia Tagliabue¹, Luigi Vignali¹, Rodolfo Gentili¹, Fabian Ewald Fassnacht², Emilio Padoa-Schioppa¹

1: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy; 2: Institute of Geographical Sciences, Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Towards mapping ecosystem resilience from space: canopy defensive properties in European temperate forest revealed with spaceborne imaging spectroscopy

Rui Xie, Roshanak Darvishzadeh, Alejandra Torres-Rodriguez, Andrew Skidmore, Freek van der Meer

Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente

Challenges of broad-scale biodiversity intactness modeling

Jakob Nyström¹, Lisa Mandle², Tobias Andermann¹, Jeffrey Smith³

1: Uppsala University, Sweden; 2: Natural Capital Project, Stanford University, USA; 3: Princeton University, USA

A framework for insect-based biodiversity intactness monitoring and reporting in Africa.

Tobias Landmann, Faith Ashiono, Vincent Magomere, Komi Mensah Agboka

International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE, Kenya

Using synthetic controls to attribute biodiversity shifts to remotely sensed landscape modifications

Joaquim Estopinan¹, Sara Si-Moussi¹, Lori Giagnacovo², Wilfried Thuiller¹

1: LECA, CNRS, France; 2: VITO NV, Belgium

Rethinking the role of Earth Observation in assessing nature-related economic and financial risks

Alessandra La Notte

International Consultant on Natural Capital Accounting, Italy

Asset location data is the key to unlock and scale EO insights for biodiversity finance

Christophe Christiaen, Stephanie Walton

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

A framework for Monitoring, reporting and Verification of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (MRV-BES)

Ruben Valbuena

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

Global exposure of species, protected areas, countries and ecoregions to oil palm plantations

Marine Robuchon⁴, Diego Juffe-Bignoli¹, Zoltan Szantoi², Andrea Mandrici³, Giacomo Delli³, Luca Battistella⁴, Grégoire Dubois⁴

1: Durrel Institute for Conservation and Ecology, UK; 2: European Space Agency, Italy; 3: Arcadia SIT S.r.l., Italy; 4: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy

A satellite-supported service to monitor the habitat suitability of agricultural land and to evaluate the impact of agri-environmental policies on farmland birds

Nastasja Scholz¹, Annett Frick¹, Ursula Ploetz¹, Levin Wiedenroth², Damaris Zurell², Nika Oman Kadunc³, Nejc Vesel³, Ine Rosier⁴, Rik Hendrix⁴, Ruth Sonnenschein⁵, Bartolomeo Ventura⁵, Tomas Orlickas⁶, Martynas Rimgaila⁶, Mindaugas Busila⁷

1: LUP - Luftbild Umwelt Planung GmbH, Germany; 2: University of Potsdam; 3: Sinergise Solutions; 4: VITO; 5: Eurac Research; 6: National Paying Agency under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Lithuania; 7: Agro Digital Solutions

Fast-forward private sector investment into conservation through outcome-based finance mechanisms

Benjamin Leutner, Maryn van der Laarse, Sonja Stuchtey

The Landbanking Group, Germany

Assessing Financial Systemic Risk through Biodiversity Loss: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis Using Earth Observation Data

Helena Naffa¹, Balázs Kotró¹, Gergely János Czupy¹, Márton Kiss²

1: Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary; 2: University of Szeged, Hungary

Biodiversity data cubes

Maarten Trekels¹, Lissa Breugelmans², Rocio Beatriz Cortès Lobos³, Duccio Rocchini³

1: Meise Botanic Garden / Stellenbosch University; 2: Meise Botanic Garden; 3: Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna

TerEcoData: a webservice to monitor terrestrial ecology changes from Earth Observing systems

Aline Deprez^1,2, Jean-Phillipe Malet^1,2,3, David Michea², Anne Puissant^1,4

1: Data-Terra / THEIA data hub – UAR 2013 CNRS, Montpellier, France; 2: École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre/EOST – UAR 830 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France; 3: Institut Terre et Environnement de Strasbourg/ITES – UMR 7063 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France; 4: Laboratoire Image, Ville, Environnement/LIVE – UMR 7362 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

How to integrate individual-based long-term monitoring and satellite-based landscape dynamics for biodiversity predictions

Billur Bektaş¹, Patrícia Singh², Maria Paniw³, Mary Lofton⁴, Freya Olsson⁴

1: Institute of Integrative Biology, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; 2: Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Czech Republic; 3: Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC), Sevilla, Spain; 4: Center for Ecosystem Forecasting, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

From Uncertainty to Action: Integrating In-Situ and Remote Sensing Campaigns for Open Biodiversity Data Products

Anabelle Cardoso^1,8, Kyla Dahlin², Mike Harfoot³, Erin Hestir⁴, Carsten Meyer⁵, Javier Pacheco-Labrador⁶, Christian Rossi⁷, Maria J. Santos⁷, Adam M. Wilson¹

1: University at Buffalo, United States of America; 2: Michigan State University, United States of America; 3: Vizzuality, United Kingdom; 4: University of California Merced, United States of America; 5: iDiv; 6: Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain; 7: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 8: University of Capetown, South Africa

From Copernicus services to biodiversity monitoring

Michel, F. Massart¹, Andreas Brink¹, Usue Donezar², Jose Miguel Rubio Iglesias², Pierre-Yves Le Traon³, Laurence Rouil⁴, Carlo Buontempo⁴

1: European Commission, Belgium; 2: European Environment Agency; 3: Mercator Ocean International; 4: ECMWF

Increasing Space Agency Impact on Biodiversity Conservation

Gary Geller¹, Antonio Ferraz¹, Peter Kalmus¹, Shaun Levick², Sandra Luque³, Marc Paganini⁴, Roger Sayre⁵, Woody Turner⁶

1: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; 2: CSIRO; 3: INRAE/CNES; 4: ESA; 5: USGS; 6: NASA

Assessing nature restoration targets established by European and international policies

Phillip Harwood¹, Rob Hendriks², Michelle Hermes³, Wojciech Mroz⁴, Ruta Skujina¹

1: Evenflow; 2: Biodiversa+, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food security and Nature; 3: EARSC; 4: Eurosite

Nature finance: challenges and opportunities

Joseph William Bull¹, Nicola Ranger¹, Emma O'Donnell¹, Andrew Shaw², Michael Harfoot³

1: University of Oxford, United Kingdom; 2: Assimila; 3: Vizzuality

Chlorophyll-a Concentration in the Ocean and the Migration Range of Franklin's Gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan) in Southern South America

María Paz Acuña Ruz¹, Jonathan Hodge¹, Cristián Estades², María Angélica Vukasovic², Francisco Bravo¹

1: Center for Earth and Space, Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile; 2: Wildlife Ecology Laboratory, University of Chile, Chile

ENHANCING HABITAT MONITORING ACROSS SPACE AND TIME WITH EARTH OBSERVATION, FIELD DATA, AND MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS

Emiliano Agrillo¹, Fabio Attorre², Nicola Alessi¹, Pierangela Angelini¹, Emanuela Carli¹, Paola Celio³, Laura Casella¹, Maurizio Cutini³, Federico Filipponi⁴, Carlo Fratarcangeli², Marco Massimi², Alessandro Mercatini¹, Alice Pezzarossa¹, Simona Sarmati³, Nazario Tartaglione¹

1: Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Italy; 2: Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 3: Department of Science, University of Roma Tre, Italy; 4: National Research Council

Macroalgae Mapping along the Portugal Coastline: A Machine Learning Approach Using Sentinel-2 Imagery

Ahmed Ali¹, Isabel Sousa Pinto¹, Patrizio Mariani², Cesar Capinha³

1: University of Porto, Portugal; 2: National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Denmark; 3: University of Lisbon, Portugal

Comprehensive regional assessment of brood habitat suitability for Alpine black grouse

Samuel ALLEAUME¹, Alexandre DEFOSSEZ¹, Marc MONTADERT², Dino IENCO¹, Nadia GUIFFANT¹, Sandra LUQUE¹

1: INRAE, France; 2: OFB, France

Developing a Methodology Using Object-Based Analysis to Assess the Urban Condition of Madrid

Ariadna Álvarez Ripado^1,2, Adrián García Bruzón¹, David Álvarez García², Patricia Arrogante Funes¹

1: Rey Juan Carlos University, Unnumbered Tulipán St., Móstoles, 28933, Madrid, Spain; 2: Ecoacsa Reserva de Biodiversidad S.L, 1 Porto Cristo St., Left Staircase, 9th Floor B, Alcorcón, 28924, Madrid, Spain

Analyzing post-disturbance recovery dynamics in European forests using remote sensing data

Eatidal Amin, Dino Ienco, Cássio Fraga Dantas, Samuel Alleaume, Sandra Luque

INRAE, France

CLMS Protected Areas: a Land Use-Land Cover semi-automatic approach based on high-resolution Copernicus time series information and its connection with habitat mapping.

Javier Becerra¹, José Manuel Álvarez-Martínez², Borja Jiménez-Alfaro², Justine Hugé³, Carlos Dewasseige³, Noemi Marsico⁴, Dimitri Papadakis⁴, Alberto Martín¹, Adrían Sujar-Cost¹, Ana Sousa⁵

1: CENTRO DE OBSERVACIÓN Y TELEDETECCIÓN ESPACIAL, COTESA; 2: CSIC-IMIB, UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO; 3: COLLECTE LOCALISATION SATELLITES, CLS; 4: EVENFLOW; 5: EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY, EEA

Monitoring of wetland restoration trajectories combining machine learning based VHR vegetation mapping and Sentinel-2 derived rewetting.

Benoit Beguet¹, Marie-Lise Benot², Julie Mollies¹, Rémi Budin¹, C. Rozo¹, N. Debonnaire¹, Virginie Lafon¹

1: i-Sea, France; 2: BIOGECO, UMR INRA 1202, France

Fragmentation in patchy ecosystems: a call for a functional approach

Lorena Benitez¹, Catherine L Parr^2,3,4, Mahesh Sankaran⁵, Casey M Ryan¹

1: School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: Department of Earth, Ocean, and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; 3: Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, South Africa; 4: School of Animal, Plant, and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand,South Africa; 5: National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Using occurrence data to improve species abundance predictions with neural networks

Simon Bettinger⁴, Benjamin Bourel¹, Alexis Joly¹, David Mouillot⁴, José Antonio Sanabria-Fernández⁵, Maximilien Servajean^2,3

1: Inria, University of Montpellier, LIRMM, CNRS, Montpellier, France; 2: LIRMM, University of Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France; 3: AMIS, Paule Valery University, Montpellier, France; 4: MARBEC, University of Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD,Montpellier, France; 5: CRETUS - Department of Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Combining Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles and Satellite multispectral data to improve mapping of intertidal seaweed habitats

Debora Borges¹, José Alberto Gonçalves^1,2, Isabel Sousa-Pinto^1,2, Andrea Giusti³, Andre Valente³

1: CIIMAR/CIMAR-LA-Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Avenida General Norton de Matos, S/N, 4450-208, Matosinhos, Portugal; 2: Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 1021 1055, Porto 4169-007, Portugal; 3: AIR Centre - Atlantic International Research Centre; TERINOV – Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia da Ilha Terceira, Terra chã, 9700-702 Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal

Combining Earth Observation and graph-theory for assessing the network connectivity of urban green spaces in European capitals

Costanza Borghi^1,2, Gherardo Chirici^1,2, Liubov Tupikina³, Leonardo Chiesi^1,2, Jacopo Moi⁴, Guido Caldarelli^4,5, Saverio Francini⁶, Stefano Mancuso^1,2

1: Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy; 2: Fondazione per il Futuro delle Città, Italy; 3: Learning Planet Institute, F-75004, Paris, France; 4: DSMN, Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy; 5: Institute for Complex Systems (ISC), CNR, UoS Sapienza, Rome, Italy; 6: Università degli Studi di Bologna

Integration of a multi-sensor analysis for the estimation of water quality in a turbid and productive lake

Mariano Bresciani¹, Nicola Ghirardi¹, Lodovica Panizza¹, Andrea Pellegrino¹, Salvatore Mangano¹, Alice Fabbretto¹, Rosalba Padula², Claudia Giardino¹

1: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-IREA), Italy; 2: ARPA Umbria, Italy

Temperate tunas’ three-dimensional distribution in the Northeast Atlantic and their phenology across Atlantic ecoregions based on electronic tagging data and satellite telemetry

Martin Cabello de los Cobos¹, Haritz Arrizabalaga¹, Igor Arregui¹, Guillem Chust¹, María José Juan-Jordá², Iñigo Onandia Onandia¹

1: Fundación AZTI, Spain; 2: Instituto Español de Oceanografía (CNIEO-CSIC), Spain

Shedding light on biological monitoring in the Baltic Sea

Bronwyn Cahill, Anke Kremp, Christiane Hassenrück, Natalie Loick-Wilde, Jerome Kaiser

Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), Germany

Mapping coastal ecosystems habitats risk status in central Italy

Mariasole Calbi¹, Michele Mugnai¹, Lorenzo Lazzaro¹, Claudia Angiolini², Simona Maccherini², Daniele Viciani¹

1: Department of Biology, University of Florence, Italy; 2: Deparment of Life Sciences, University of Siena, Italy

Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing for Forest Conservation and Management: A Case Study of the Gran Chaco in Central Argentina

Maria Laura Carranza^2,4, Francisco G Alaggia¹, Ramon Riera-Tatché¹, Michele Innnagi², Flavio Marzialetti^3,4, Laura Cavallero¹, Dardo R López¹, Paolo Gamba⁵

1: INTA, Estación Forestal Villa Dolores. Córdoba (Argentine); 2: EnviXlab - Dep. Biosciences and Territory - University of Molise (Italy); 3: Dep. Agricultural Sciences, University of Sassari (Italy); 4: National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Palermo 90133, (Italy); 5: Dep. Electrical, Biomedical and Computer Engineering, University of Pavia (Italy)

Application of a water column correction algorithm to monitoring coral reef habitat change by satellite-based mapping

Jongkuk Choi, Bara Samudra Syuhada, Deukjae Hwang, Taihun Kim

Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Use of innovative technologies for the monitoring of marine biodiversity. A focus on Satellites

Marzia Cianflone^1,2,3, Luca Cicala³, Simonetta Fraschetti^1,2

1: University of Naples Federico II, Italy; 2: NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy; 3: CIRA, Centro Italiano di Ricerca Aerospaziale, Capua, Italy

ANALYSIS OF LONG-TERM PERSISTENCE OF BULL KELP FORESTS IN THE SALISH SEA, CANADA BASED ON SATELLITE EARTH OBSERVATION DATA

Maycira Costa¹, Alejandra Mora-Soto¹, Sarah Schroeder¹, Lianna Gendall¹, Alena Wachmann¹, Gita Narayan², Silven Read¹, Isobell Pearsall³, Emily Rubidge⁴, Joanne Lessard⁴, Martell Kathryn⁵

1: University of Victoria, Canada; 2: Vancouver Island University, Canada; 3: Pacific Salmon Foundation, Canada; 4: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Canada; 5: Islands Trust Conservancy, Canada

Phytoplankton Community Composition in European Coastal Waters: Impact of Particle Concentration on Phytoplankton Absorption and Pigment Retrieval Accuracy

Margherita Costanzo^1,2, Vittorio Brando¹, Christian Marchese¹, Emmanuel Boss³, David Doxaran⁴, Chiara Santinelli⁵, Alison Chase⁶

1: CNR-ISMAR, Italy; 2: Sapienza University, Italy; 3: University of Maine, United States; 4: LOV CNRS/SU, France; 5: CNR-IBF, Italy; 6: University of Washington - Applied Physics Laboratory, United States

Post-fire evolution of fire-affected areas as a function of fire severity and land cover in a Mediterranean test site

Lorenzo Crecco¹, Sofia Bajocco¹, Nikos Koutsias²

1: Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA), Italy; 2: University of Patras, Department of Sustainable Agriculture, Greece

Mapping of temperate upland habitats using high-resolution satellite imagery and machine learning

Charmaine Cruz, John Connolly

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Pacific Herring Spawning Areas Using Satellite Remote Sensing

Loïc T. Dallaire^1,2, Alejandra Mora-Soto¹, Maycira Costa¹

1: University of Victoria, Spectral Lab, Canada; 2: The Pacific Salmon Foundation

Automated Detection and Monitoring of Common Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) in Croatia Using Space Technology

Dragan Divjak, Andreja Radović, Luka Stemberga, Mirna Bušić

LIST LABS LLC, Croatia

The impact of global change on the distribution of mountain mammals and birds

Chiara Dragonetti¹, Wilfried Thuiller², Maya Guéguen², Julien Renaud², Piero Visconti³, Moreno Di Marco¹

1: La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 2: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, Laboratoire d’Écologie Alpine, Grenoble, France; 3: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria

Developing a Global Species Distribution Model for Plants Using Remote Sensing and Deep Learning

Charbel El Khoury¹, Robert M. McElderry^1,2

1: Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), 8092 Zürich, Switzerland; 2: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Innovative Interoperability Solutions for KM-GBF Target 2 reporting with FERM

Yelena Finegold, Carmen Morales Martin, Zhuo Cheng, Hasan Awad

FAO, Italy

Optimizing ecosystem services in agricultural area: the synergy between habitat types and Nature-based Solutions

Lori Giagnacovo¹, Els Verachtert¹, Frederik Priem¹, Markus Sydenham², Tijana Nikolic³, Maja Arok³

1: VITO, Belgium; 2: NINA, Norway; 3: BioSense, Serbia

Assessing CMEMS GlobColour chlorophyll-a retrievals in the complex West Greenland waters

Rafael Gonçalves-Araujo¹, Colin A. Stedmon¹, Tobias R. Vonnahme², Efrén López-Blanco^2,3, Per Juel Hansen⁴, Thomas Juul-Pedersen²

1: Technical University of Denmark, National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU Aqua), Denmark; 2: Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR), Greenland; 3: Aarhus University, Arctic Research Center (AU), Denmark; 4: University of Copenhagen, Department of Biology (UCPH), Denmark

“Delineation of Riparian Zones” for the Classification of Riparian Forests for Ecosystem Accounting in Germany

Nicole Habersack

Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, Germany

Peatland Vulnerability of South Kalimantan based on Surface Soil Moisture and Land Subsidence observed by SAR techniques

Noorlaila Hayati¹, Pradipta Adi Nugraha¹, Maulida Annisa Uzzulfa¹, Noorkomala Sari², Filsa Bioresita¹

1: Department of Geomatics Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Indonesia; 2: Department of Agroecotechnology, Universitas Lambung Mangkurat, Indonesia

Characterizing forest regeneration after human disturbance with the Landsat archive and Google Earth Engine

Jennifer Hird¹, Jiaao Guo^1,2, Cynthia McClain¹, Gregory McDermid²

1: Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, Canada; 2: University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Global estimation of phytoplankton community composition based on deep learning using ocean color satellite and physical properties

Jungho Im¹, Sihoon Jung¹, Dukwon Bae¹, Bokyung Son¹, Cheolhee Yoo²

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

Global Assessment of Ecosystem Resilience: Evaluating Early Warning Signals and Disentangling Climatic and Anthropogenic Drivers

Nielja Sofia Knecht, Romi Amilia Lotcheris, Ingo Fetzer, Juan Rocha

Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden

How well does Sentinel-2 based snow data perform in Species Distribution Models?

Andreas Kollert¹, Kryštof Chytrý², Andreas Mayr¹, Karl Hülber², Patrick Saccone³, Martin Rutzinger¹

1: Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; 2: Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 3: Independent Researcher, Department of Botany, University of Vienna, Austria

Mapping of Natura 2000 open habitats for conservation purposes: comparison of Sentinel-2 and HySpex data

Dominik Kopeć^1,2, Anna Jarocińska³

1: University of Lodz, Poland; 2: MGGP Aero, Poland; 3: University of Warsaw, Poland

Oceanic Warming Shortens Phytoplankton Blooms and Increases Water Column Oligotrophy in the Rhodes Gyre

Antonia Kournopoulou¹, Eleni Livanou¹, Giorgio Dall'olmo², Dionysios E. Raitsos¹

1: Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 15784, Greece; 2: Sezione di Oceanografia, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale—OGS, Borgo Grotta Gigante, Trieste 34010, Italy

GEOBIA for assessing habitat conservation status in semi-natural dry grassland ecosystems

Rocco Labadessa¹, Marica De Lucia¹, Luciana Zollo², Mariagiovanna Dell'Aglio², Maria Adamo¹, Cristina Tarantino¹

1: National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Italy; 2: Alta Murgia National Park, Italy

Spectral Resilience: Insights into Drought impacts on evergreen and deciduous Mediterranean-type forests in the Central Chile Biodiversity Hotspot.

José A. Lastra¹, Roberto O. Chávez^2,3, Francisca P. Diaz^2,3, Álvaro G. Gutiérrez^3,4, Kirsten M. de Beurs¹

1: Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University and Research, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, the Netherlands; 2: Laboratorio de Geo-Información y Percepción Remota, Instituto de Geografía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso 2362807, Chile; 3: Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB), Santiago, Chile; 4: Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales Renovables, Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8820808, Chile

GeoPl@ntNet: A Remote Sensing-Based Deep Learning Workflow for Biodiversity Mapping and Monitoring

César Leblanc¹, Rémi Palard², Pierre Bonnet², Maximilien Servajean³, Lukáš Picek¹, Benjamin Deneu¹, Christophe Botella¹, Maxime Fromholtz¹, Antoine Affouard¹, Alexis Joly¹

1: Inria, Zenith, Montpellier, France; 2: CIRAD, AMAP, Montpellier, France; 3: LIRMM, ADVANSE, Montpellier, France

Human impact on large scale patterns of plant beta diversity

Pedro J Leitão¹, Marcel Schwieder², Leonie Ratzke¹, Karin Mora¹, David Montero¹, Hannes Feilhauer¹

1: University of Leipzig, Germany; 2: Thünen Institute, Germany

Evaluating MULTIOBS Chlorophyll-a with ground-truth observations in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Eleni Livanou¹, Raphaëlle Sauzède², Stella Psarra³, Manolis Mandalakis⁴, Giorgio Dall’Olmo⁵, Robert J.W. Brewin⁶, Dionysios E. Raitsos¹

1: Department of Biology, Division of Zoology-Marine Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografou 15772, Athens, Greece; 2: CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Institut de la Mer de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France; 3: Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, P.O. Box 2214, 71003, Heraklion, Greece; 4: Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, P.O. Box 2214, 71003, Heraklion, Greece; 5: National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Borgo Grotta Gigante 42/c, 34010 Sgonico, Trieste, Italy; 6: Centre for Geography and Environmental Science, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Cornwall, UK

Differentiating phytoplankton taxonomic groups in freshwater ecosystems using hyperspectral in-situ remote sensing reflectance and underwater imaging

Loé Maire^1,2, Alexander Damm^1,2, Daniel Odermatt^1,2

1: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland; 2: Remote Sensing Laboratories, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Linking Earth Observations and in situ omics data via machine learning to estimate plankton biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea

Christian Marchese¹, Chiara Lapucci², Angela Landolfi¹, Tinkara Tinta³, Pierre Galand⁴, Ramiro Logares⁵, Maria Laura Zoffoli¹, Annalisa di Cicco¹, Marco Talone⁵, Emanuele Organelli¹

1: National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR), Rome, Italy; 2: National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR), Florence, Italy; 3: National Institute of Biology (NIB), Marine Biology Station, Piran, Slovenia; 4: Sorbonne Université (SU), Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls, Banyuls, France; 5: Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Assessing climate change impacts on holm oak forest combining Copernicus data and high- resolution satellite imagery on Mediterranean areas

Flavio Marzialetti^3,4, Simone Mereu^1,2,3, Lorenzo Arcidiaco⁵, Giuseppe Brundu^3,4, Jose Maria Costa-Saura^1,3,4, Antonio Trabucco^1,3,4, Costantino Sirca^1,3,4, Donatella Spano^1,3,4

1: CMCC—Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, IAFES Division, Sassari, Italy; 2: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Bioeconomia, CNR-IBE, Sassari, Italy; 3: National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Piazza Marina 61 (c/o palazzo Steri), Palermo, Italy; 4: Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; 5: CNR-IBE – Institute of Bioeconomy – National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

Long-Term Monitoring of Dwarf Pine in the Santal Valley: An Integrated Approach to Forest Management

Irene Menegaldo, Michele Torresani, Roberto Tognetti

Free University of Bolzano, Italy

Disaggregation of Mountain Green Cover Index reveals mountain land degradation at sub-national scale: a case-study in Greece

Danai-Eleni Michailidou, Nefta-Eleftheria Votsi, Orestis Speyer, Evangelos Gerasopoulos

National Observatory of Athens, Greece

Wildfire as an interplay between water deficiency, manipulated tree species composition and bark beetle. A remote sensing approach

Jana Mullerova¹, Jan Pacina¹, Martin Adamek², Dominik Brett¹, Premysl Bobek³

1: Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti n.L., Usti n. L., Czech Republic; 2: Charles University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; 3: Institute of Botany CAS, Pruhonice, Czech Republic

Beyond the Surface: Mapping Subaquatic Vegetation from Space

Michael Munk, Silvia Huber, Lisbeth Tangaa Nielsen, Nicklas Simonsen, Kenneth Grogan, Lars Boye Hansen

DHI, Denmark

From Space to Species: Advancing Arctic and Marine Biodiversity Protection through VHR Satellite Imagery

Michael Munk¹, Niels Martin Schmidt², Mads Christensen¹, Nicklas Simonsen¹, Kenneth Grogan¹, Lars Boye Hansen¹

1: DHI, Denmark; 2: Aarhus University, Denmark

Human footprint and rainfall shape Masai giraffe’s habitat suitability and connectivity in a multiple-use landscape

Amos Muthiuru^1,3,5, Ramiro Crego^2,6, Jemimah Simbauni¹, Philip Muruthi³, Grace Waiguchu⁴, Fredrick Lala⁴, James Millington⁵, Eunice Kairu¹

1: Kenyatta University; 2: School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences – Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; 3: African Wildlife Foundation; 4: Wildlife Research and Training Institute; 5: King's College London; 6: Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology, Conservation Ecology Center, Front Royal, Virginia, USA

Long-term trends of ocean warming, marine heatwaves and phytoplankton biomass: the case study of the Northern Adriatic Sea

Francesca Neri¹, Angela Garzia^1,2, Tiziana Romagnoli¹, Stefano Accoroni¹, Francesco Memmola¹, Marika Ubaldi^1,3, Alessandro Coluccelli⁴, Annalisa Di Cicco⁴, Pierpaolo Falco¹, Cecilia Totti¹

1: Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy; 2: Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy; 3: Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy; 4: National Research Council of Italy, CNR

From Space to Species: Advancing the projection of forest community composition with AI and Joint Species Distribution Models

Sergio Noce¹, Valeria Aloisi⁶, Lorenzo Arcidiaco², Francesco Boscutti^3,4, Cristina Cipriano^1,4, Alessandro D'Anca^1,4, Italo Epicoco¹, Donatella Spano^5,4,1, Adriana Torelli¹, Simone Mereu^2,4,1

1: CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Italy; 2: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Bioeconomia, CNR-IBE, Italy; 3: Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine 33100, Italy; 4: National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Piazza Marina 61 (c/o palazzo Steri), Palermo, Italy; 5: Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; 6: Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

Disrupting Connectivity: Roads and Streams in the Changing Amazon Landscape

Gabriel Oliveira Ferraz^1,2, Cecília G. Leal², Jos Barlow², Thiago B. A. Couto², Karlmer A. B. Corrêa¹, Gabriel L. Brejão³, Débora R. de Carvalho², Guilherme C. Berger⁴, Marcos A. Alves Filho¹, Leonardo T. Y. Maeoka¹, Alice Whittle², Silvio F. de B. Ferraz¹

1: University of São Paulo (USP – ESALQ), Department of Forest Sciences, Piracicaba, Brazil; 2: Lancaster University, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, United Kingdom; 3: São Paulo State University (UNESP), Institute of Biosciences, Rio Claro, Brazil; 4: Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Plankton biodivErsity Through Remote sensing and omIcs in the MEDiterranean Sea: The PETRI-MED project

Emanuele Organelli¹, Marco Talone², Tinkara Tinta³, Pierre Galand⁴, Daniel Sher⁵, Rosa Trabajo⁶, PETRI-MED Team⁷

1: National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR), Rome, ITALY; 2: Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, SPAIN; 3: National Institute of Biology (NIB), Marine Biology Station, Piran, SLOVENIA; 4: Sorbonne Université (SU), Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls, Banyuls-sur-mer, FRANCE; 5: University of Haifa, Haifa, ISRAEL; 6: Institute of Agrifood, Research and Technology (IRTA), Caldes de Montbui, SPAIN; 7: https://petri-med.icm.csic.es/

Global Ocean Chlorophyll-a and Optical Shifts in Response to Climate Change

Myung-Sook Park¹, Antonio Mannino², Ryan A. Vandermeulen³, Stephanie Dutkiewicz⁴

1: Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST), Korea, Republic of (South Korea); 2: Ocean Ecology Lab, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt, 20771, MD, USA; 3: National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, Silver Spring, 20910, MD, USA; 4: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139, MA, USA

Assessment of functional landscape connectivity and its relationship with pollination in the metropolitan region: A Multiscale Approach.

Laura C. Pérez-Giraldo¹, Javier Lopatin^1,2, Dylan Craven^1,3

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

Seventy years of coastal landscape change: a comparative study inside and outside LTER protected sites in Central Adriatic (Italy)

Federica Pontieri¹, Mirko Di Febbraro¹, Michele Innangi¹, Maria Laura Carranza^1,2

1: University of Molise (Italy), Italy; 2: National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Palermo, 90133, Italy

Mapping and Spatial Pattern Analysis of Urban Habitats in Switzerland Using Remote Sensing data

Bronwyn Price, Natalia Kolecka, Christian Ginzler

Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland

Earth Observation and Spatial Analytics in Marine Habitat Mapping

Branimir Radun¹, Kristina Matika Marić¹, Luka Raspović¹, Josipa Židov¹, Ivan Tekić¹, Ante Žuljević², Ivan Cvitković², Zrinka Mesić³, Ivona Žiža¹, Bruno Ćaleta¹, Ivan Tomljenović¹

1: Oikon Ltd. - Institute of Applied Ecology, Croatia; 2: Laboratory for Benthos, Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Croatia; 3: Department of Wildlife Management and Nature Conservation, Karlovac University of Applied Sciences, Croatia

Northern Red Sea Greening Reveals Larger and Longer Phytoplankton Blooms Over a Century of Change

Dionysia Rigatou¹, John A. Gittings¹, Eleni Livanou¹, George Krokos², Robert J.W. Brewin^3,4, Jaime Pitarch⁵, Ibrahim Hoteit⁶, Dionysios E. Raitsos¹

1: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Biology, Division of Zoology-Marine Biology, Athens, Greece; 2: Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Sounio Ave., P.O. Box 712, Athens, Greece; 3: College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Cornwall TR10 9FE, UK; 4: Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, Devon PL1 3DH, UK; 5: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Scienze Marine (ISMAR), Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy; 6: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Tree Species Mapping using Multi-Date Hyperspectral Data and Deep Learning.

Nadia Rochdi, Mohammad Rezaee

NorthStar Earth and Space, Canada

Functional connectivity analysis in the Lipa wetland system as a decision-making tool for conservation

Sergio Rojas, Tatiana Silva, Alejandra Narvaez

Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Colombia

Species distribution modelling (SDM) based on neural networks and maximum entropy principle: a case study using Landsat time series

Maxime Ryckewaert¹, Diego Marcos¹, Maximilien Servajean², Christophe Botella¹, Alexis Joly¹

1: Inria, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France; 2: LIRMM, AMIS, Univ Paul Valéry Montpellier, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France

Retrospective detection and analysis of local habitat changes based on remote sensing data using machine learning using the example of grasshoppers

Merlin Schäfer¹, Johannes Albert², Chantal Schymik², Philipp Gärtner², Dominik Poniatowski³, Thomas Fartmann³, Klemens Mrogenda¹, Christian Schneider¹

1: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Germany; 2: Environment Agency’s Application Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, Germany; 3: Osnabrück University, WG Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology, Germany

Predicting spatio-temporal patterns of Lantana camara in a savannah ecosystem

Lilly Theresa Schell¹, Konstantin Müller¹, Maximilian Merzdorf¹, Emma Else Maria Evers², Drew Arthur Bantlin², Sarah Schönbrodt-Stitt¹, Insa Otte¹

1: Department of Remote Sensing, Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany; 2: Conservation and Research Department, Akagera National Park, Kayonza, Eastern Province, Rwanda

Assessing Biodiversity Impacts of Land Use Intensification: A Remote Sensing-Based Analysis (2005-2022)

Veronika Schlosser¹, Livia Cabernard¹, Karina Winkler², Laura Scherer³

1: Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agricultural System, School of Management and School of Life Sciences. Technical University Munich.; 2: Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; 3: Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands

Detecting the Unwelcome: Remote Sensing Solutions for Invasive Species in Swedish Waters

Jorrit Scholze¹, Petra Philipson², Kerstin Stelzer¹

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

Mapping tropical forest-savanna transitions on a global scale

Matúš Seči¹, Carla Staver², David Williams³, Casey Ryan¹

1: School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FF, UK; 2: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; 3: Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

Terrestrial Habitat Connectivity as a testbed for the European Green Deal Data Space: from EO to in-situ and IoT data

Ivette Serral¹, Vitalii Kriukov², Berta Giralt¹, Lucy Bastin², Raul Palma³, Cédric Crettaz⁴, Joan Masó¹

1: CREAF, Spain; 2: ASTON University, UK; 3: Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland; 4: IoT Lab, Switzerland

HARNESSING AI AND REMOTE SENSING TO FOSTER HIGH RESOLUTION HABITAT MAPPING

Sara Si-Moussi¹, Stephan Hennekens², Sander Mücher², Wilfried Thuiller¹

1: University of Grenoble Alpes, University Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, 38000, Grenoble, France; 2: Wageningen Environmental Research (WENR)

Using Neural Networks and Remote Sensing for Efficient Mapping of Woodland Annex I Habitats in Sweden

Johanna Skarpman Sundholm, Esmeray Elcim

Metria AB, Sweden

Multi-source Earth observation analysis in Canadian grasslands: Enhancing woody plant encroachment detection benefiting the environment and economy

Irini Soubry¹, Xulin Guo¹, Yihan Pu¹, Lampros Nikolaos Maros², Elise Denning¹, Xiao Jing Lu¹, Eric Lamb³, Richard S. Gray²

1: Department of Geography and Planning, University of Saskatchewan, Canada; 2: Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Canada; 3: Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Effects of rising temperatures on nesting count trends of loggerhead turtles

Diana Sousa-Guedes^1,5,6, João C. Campos¹, Filipa Bessa², Flora Fauna y Cultura de Mexico³, Jacob A. Lasala⁴, Adolfo Marco^5,6, Neftalí Sillero¹

1: CICGE - Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Portugal; 2: CFE - University of Coimbra, Portugal; 3: Flora Fauna y Cultura de Mexico & Riviera Maya Sea Turtle Conservation Program, Mexico; 4: Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program, Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, USA; 5: Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Spain; 6: BIOS Cabo Verde

A satellite remote sensing-based reconstruction of bark beetle (Ips typographus, L.) out-breaks in South- and East Tyrol (Italy/Austria).

Sebastian Spreitzer¹, Magnus Malte Bremer¹, Georg Wohlfahrt², Martin Rutzinger¹

1: University of Innsbruck, Austria, Department of Geography; 2: University of Innsbruck, Austria, Department of Ecology

Biodiversity recovery in the salt marshes of Moravian Pannonia: Assessment of heterogeneity and climate vulnerability

Hana Švedová¹, Matúš Hrnčiar¹, Jan Labohý¹, Helena Chytrá², Júlia Buchtová², Antonín Zajíček³, Marie Kotasová Adámková²

1: World from Space, Czech Republic; 2: Masaryk University, Czech Republic; 3: VUMOP, Czech Republic

Integrating remote sensing imagery into the study of insect migration: towards an interdisciplinary roadmap

Gerard Talavera¹, Roger López-Mañas^1,2, Megan S. Reich³, Clement P. Bataille⁴, Cristina Domingo-Marimon⁵

1: Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona, 08038 Catalonia, Spain; 2: Departament de Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia (BABVE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ES-08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain; 3: University of Ottawa, Department of Biology, Ottawa, K1N 7N9 Canada; 4: University of Ottawa, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ottawa, K1N 7N9 Canada; 5: Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Grumets Research Group, Cerdanyola de Vallès, 08193 Catalonia, Spain

High-resolution habitat mapping for assessing ocean acidification effects on benthic marine communities at volcanic CO2 vents

Gaia Grasso¹, Jordi Boada², Ulisse Cardini³, Jérémy Carlot⁴, Antonia Chiarore¹, Steeve Comeau⁴, Alice Mirasole¹, Daniele Ventura⁵, Núria Teixidó^1,4

1: Ischia Marine Centre, Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn – National Institute of Marine Biology, Ecology and Biotechnology, 80077 Ischia, Italy; 2: Department of Marine Ecology, Centre d’Estudis Avançat de Blanes - CSIC, 17300 Blanes, Girona, Spain; 3: Genoa Marine Centre, Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn – National Institute of Marine Biology, Ecology and Biotechnology, 16126 Genova, Italy; 4: Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, 06230 Villefranche-sur-mer, France; 5: Department of Environmental Biology, University of Rome La Sapienza, 00185 Rome, Italy

Vegetation response components to drought regimes attributes in the Mediterranean Basin

Matilde Torrassa^1,2,3, Mara Baudena^3,4, Edoardo Cremonese², Maria Santos⁵

1: University of Genova, Italy; 2: CIMA Research Foundation, Italy; 3: National Research Council, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Italy; 4: National Biodiversity Future Center, Italy; 5: University of Zurich, Switzerland

Predicting butterfly species presence from satellite imagery using soft contrastive learning

Thijs Lambik van der Plas¹, Michael Pocock²

1: The Alan Turing Institute, London, United Kingdom; 2: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom

Multi-Stage Semantic Segmentation to Map Small and Sparsely Distributed Habitats

Thijs Lambik van der Plas¹, Simon Geikie², David Alexander², Daniel Simms³

1: The Alan Turing Institute, London, United Kingdom; 2: Peak District National Park Authority, Bakewell, United Kingdom; 3: Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom

Precision dune monitoring: using AI, satellite imagery and LiDAR, for biodiversity and coastal protection

Mattijn van Hoek¹, Petra Goessen²

1: HKV consultants, The Netherlands; 2: HHNK water authority, The Netherlands

Biodiversity monitoring by species distribution modelling using species association interactors from Sentinel-2 data: A case study of the GUARDEN project

Christophe Van Neste¹, Maxime Ryckewaert², Alexis Joly², Quentin Groom¹

1: Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium; 2: INRIA

Evaluating the Transferability of Tree Species Classification Models Between EnMAP and PRISMA Hyperspectral Data.

Rajesh Vanguri¹, Giovanni Laneve²

1: Department of Astronautical, Electric and Energy Engineering (DIAEE), Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.; 2: School of Aerospace Engineering, EOSIA Lab, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Monitoring Nature-Based Solutions in Agriculture: Using Sentinel Time Series for Catch Crop Classification

Kato Vanpoucke^1,2, Stien Heremans², Ben Somers^1,3

1: KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Celestijnenlaan 200E, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; 2: Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Havenlaan 88, 1000 Brussels, Belgium; 3: KU Leuven Plant Institute (LPI), Kasteelpark Arenberg 31, 3001 Leuven, Belgium

Assessing the age of permanent grassland with time series from Sentinel-2 and Landsat-5/8 imagery

Tatjana Veljanovski¹, Matic Lubej², Ana Potočnik Buhvald³, Krištof Oštir³

1: ZRC SAZU - Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia; 2: Sinergise Solutions, Ltd.; 3: Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana

Comparing habitat mapping results with remote sensing-derived Rao’s Q diversity index values in a complex Mediterranean environment

Chiara Zabeo, Anna Barbati

Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Italy

Global trends in the exposure of protected areas to human pressure

Tiantian Zhang¹, Jiajia Liu¹, Moreno Di Marco²

1: MOE Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China; 2: Dept. of Biology and Biotechnologies "Charles Darwin", Sapienza University of Rome, viale dell'Università 32, I-00185 Rome, Italy

Exploring the potential of hyperspectral data from space supporting harmful algal bloom studies

Maria Laura Zoffoli¹, Pierre Gernez², Victor Pochic^2,3, Thomas Lacour⁴, Michael Retho⁵, Soazig Manach⁵, Federica Braga⁶

1: ISMAR - CNR, Rome, Italy; 2: ISOMER - Nantes University, Nantes, France; 3: LITTORAL - Ifremer, Nantes, France; 4: PHYTOX - Ifremer, Nantes, France; 5: LITTORAL - Ifremer, Lorient, France; 6: ISMAR - CNR, Venice, Italy

Estimation of river wildness with Artificial Intelligence, Remote Sensing and Citizen Science

Shuo Zong^1,2, Théophile Sanchez^1,2, Nicolas MOUQUET³, Loïc Pellissier^1,2

1: Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 2: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland; 3: MARBEC, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Montpellier, France

Space-based hydrological models improve identification of fine-scale wildlife movement corridors

Amelia Zuckerwise¹, Narendra Man Babu Pradhan², Naresh Subedi³, Babu Ram Lamichhane⁴, Krishna Dev Hengaju⁵, Hari Bhadra Acharya⁶, Ram Chandra Kandel⁷, Neil H. Carter¹

1: School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; 2: International Union for Conservation of Nature, Lalitpur, Kathmandu, Nepal; 3: National Trust for Nature Conservation, Kathmandu, Nepal; 4: USAID Biodiversity, Jal Jangal, Kathmandu, Nepal; 5: Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences & Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, China; 6: Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, Kathmandu, Nepal; 7: Ministry of Forests and Environment, Government of Nepal, Kathmandu

EL-BIOS: The Greek National Earth Observation Data Cube for Supporting Biodiversity Management and Conservation

Vangelis Fotakidis¹, Themistoklis Roustanis¹, Konstantinos Panayiotou², Irene Chrysafis¹, Eleni Fitoka³, Vasilis Botzorlos⁴, Ioannis Mitsopoulos⁵, Ioannis Kokkoris¹, Giorgos Mallinis¹

1: Laboratory of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (PERS Lab), School of Rural and Surveying EngineeringAristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; 2: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece; 3: The Goulandris Natural History Museum—Greek Biotope Wetland Centre (EKBY), 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece; 4: Green Fund-Greek Ministry of Environment and Energy-Greek Ministry of Environment and Energy; 5: Natural Environment and Climate Change Agency (NECCA)

The Impact of Mowing on Corncrake (Crex crex) Populations in Intermittent Lake Cerknica: Insights from Sentinel-2 and PlanetScope Time Series (2017-2023)

Ana Potocnik Buhvald¹, Krištof Oštir¹, Rudi Kraševec², Tomaž Jančar²

1: University of Ljubljana Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, Slovenia; 2: Notranjska regional park