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Session Overview | |
Location: Big Hall Building 14 |
Date: Monday, 10/Feb/2025 | |
1:30pm - 2:00pm |
Welcome Location: Big Hall |
2:00pm - 3:30pm |
OPENING SESSION at director level Location: Big Hall Head of the Climate Action, Sustainability and Science Department, on behalf of Simonetta Cheli, ESA Director of Earth Observation Programme. European Space Agency (ESA) Deputy Director for Earth Science (video recording) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Deputy Director-General European Commission, DG RTD (research & Innvation) Director for Biodiversity European Commission DG ENV (Environment) European Commission DG JRC (Joint Research Centre) Head of Unit for “Biodiversity Conservation and Observations”, presenting on behalf of Bernard Magenhann, Acting Director-General Executive Secretary, introduced by Jillian Campbell, Head of Monitoring, Review and Reporting Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat Secretary General Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Secretariat Executive Secretary, introduced by Aidin Niamir, Head of IPBES Data and Knowledge Technical Support Unit Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Secretariat Executive Secretary United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) – Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) Director Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Secretariat |
4:00pm - 5:15pm |
Earth Observations for Biodiversity Actions: Advancing Biodiversity Policy monitoring and verification Location: Big Hall Supporting the Processes underpinning Biodiversity Policy Monitoring and Reporting in Europe EC JRC |
5:15pm - 6:30pm |
From Data to Biodiveristy insight: Using EO to Address Biodiversity Knowledge and Observation Gaps Location: Big Hall Introduction Pleanry 2 ESA, Italy How will we know if we are bending the curve of biodiversity? GEO BON, McGill University Implementation of Earth Observations for Biodiversity Monitoring in Europe BIODIVERSA+, SYKE - Finnish Environment Institute, Finland |
Date: Tuesday, 11/Feb/2025 | |
8:45am - 9:45am |
The future of biodiversity monitoring: New Earth Observation missions and Initiatives from Space Agencies Location: Big Hall Eyes On Biodiversity: ESA’s Future Optical Earth Observation Missions European Space Agency, Netherlands, The The future of biodiversity monitoring: New Earth Observation missions and Initiatives from Space AgenciesRadar Imaging Missions - SAR ESA, Italy NASA Earth - New U.S. Earth Observing Missions National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) CNES Space Missions for the Monitoring and Study of Biodiversity CNES, France Earth Observation missions for Biodiversity Monitoring JAXA, Japan Canada’s upstream SEO assets and nature-related applications development Canadian Space Agency, Canada AquaWatch Australia - A ‘weather service’ for water quality CSIRO, Australia |
10:00am - 11:30am |
Ecosystem Extent Location: Big Hall Chair: Sandra Luque, INRAE Chair: Bruno Smets, VITO Global Ecosystems Atlas: Measure to Manage GEO secretariat, IGO 10:10am - 10:20am Increasing engagement of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) with biodiversity 1: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; 2: CSIRO; 3: INRAE/CNES; 4: USGS 10:20am - 10:30am The utility of global ecosystem maps for national ecosystem reporting - A focus on the World Terrestrial Ecosystems U.S. Geological Survey, United States of America 10:30am - 10:40am Availability and use of in situ data for European habitat mapping Wageningen Environmental Research (WENR), the Netherlands 10:40am - 10:50am Mapping ecosystem extent under the SEEA EA framework: complementarity of biodiversity and earth observation data needs 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 10:50am - 11:00am Mapping +30 Years of Mangrove Extent in Tanzania Using Historical Data and Remote Sensing: A Collaborative, Open-Source Approach 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 11:00am - 11:10am Integrating Remote Sensing and Machine Learning for Biodiversity Net Gain Assessments in the United Kingdom 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 |
12:00pm - 1:30pm |
EO conceptual approaches to improve biodiversity monitoring Location: Big Hall Chair: Jean-Baptiste FERET, INRAE Chair: Lucie Viciano, Canadian Space Agency A Federated System of Systems approach for increased availability of EO-based biodiversity products NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology 12:10pm - 12:20pm Biodiversity in changing terrestrial, aquatic, and marine Ecosystems: Calling for a unifying earth observation perspective 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 12:20pm - 12:30pm An EO-based framework for monitoring tropical forests ecosystems in Costa Rica: extent, condition and composition TETIS, AgroParisTech, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France 12:30pm - 12:40pm From Ground to Canopy: Integrating Ground-based Sensors with Remote Sensing to Improve Urban Tree Management 1: University of Cambridge; 2: Imperial College London 12:40pm - 12:50pm Development of an OECD farmland habitat biodiversity indicator with remote sensing – A pilot study for Germany 1: Thünen Institute of Farm Economics, Bundesalle 63, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany; 2: Thünen Institute of Biodiversity, Bundesalle 65, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany 12:50pm - 1:00pm How do Earth Observation Foundation Models Help to Predict Multi-Trophic Soil Biodiversity University of Grenoble Alpes, University Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, 38000, Grenoble, France 1:00pm - 1:10pm Scaling-up island biodiversity monitoring with remote sensing: Insights from the BioMonI project 1: Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland; 2: Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain; 3: University of Göttingen, Germany 1:10pm - 1:20pm 5th International Polar Year - an opportunity for biodiversity assessment across scales University of Zurich, Switzerland 1:20pm - 1:30pm Looking at the dark side of the Earth: why we need high resolution night images ? Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium |
3:00pm - 4:30pm |
WS: EBVs for the GBF Location: Big Hall Earth Observation, EBVs and indicators to facilitate reporting and progress on international biodiversity targets 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 |
5:00pm - 6:30pm |
WS: EBVs for the GBF - continued Location: Big Hall |
Date: Wednesday, 12/Feb/2025 | |
8:45am - 9:45am |
Space for Nature: How EO can empower NGOs and Civil Society in conservation Location: Big Hall Empowering Governments, NGOs and Civil Society in Conservation from space WCS - Wildlife Conservation Society, Uganda Video message from WWF WWF, Italy |
10:00am - 11:30am |
Ecosystem Conservation Location: Big Hall Chair: David Coomes, University of Cambridge Chair: Kyla Marie Dahlin, Michigan State University Habitat Mapping and Quality Monitoring: Insights from the Biodiversa+ Habitat Pilot Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Sweden 10:10am - 10:20am Satellite remote sensing as a key technology for effective nature conservation: The perspective of a national nature conservation authority Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Germany 10:20am - 10:30am PEOPLE-ECCO: Enhancing Ecosystems Conservation through Earth Observation Solutions, Capacity Development and Co-design 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 10:30am - 10:40am Innovative collaborative tools for habitat monitoring and conflict prevention through SRS technologies. Insights from the Nature FIRST Project 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 10:40am - 10:50am Functional Habitat and Connectivity: Computational Advances for Assessing Cumulative Impacts and Spatial Planning for Biodiversity 1: Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway; 2: Finnish Institute of Occupational Health; 3: Université catholique de Louvain 10:50am - 11:00am Development of an EO4ANK portal including an EO toolbox for the implementation and monitoring of natural climate protection measures in Germany 1: DLR, DE; 2: LUP GmbH, DE 11:00am - 11:10am 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 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 |
12:00pm - 1:30pm |
Freshwater and Inland Wetland Ecosystems Location: Big Hall Chair: Paolo Villa, National Research Council (CNR) Chair: Heidi van Deventer, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Prototyping a Policy-Driven Earth Observation Service for Monitoring Critical Wetland Habitats in Natura 2000 Sites 1: JRC, Italy; 2: Arcadia/JRC; 3: DG. ENV.D.3; 4: EEA 12:10pm - 12:20pm Harnessing open-access Earth observation data and artificial intelligence for large-scale wetland habitat mapping 1: Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, Canada; 2: Ducks Unlimited Canada; 3: Government of Alberta, Environment And Protected Areas 12:20pm - 12:30pm Overview of the use of the ESA Sentinel-1 radar and -2 optical images for mapping and monitoring wetland biodiversity in South Africa 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 12:30pm - 12:40pm Eco-patterns: towards a standardised methodology to assess peatland condition remotely Gentian Ltd, United Kingdom 12:40pm - 12:50pm BIOMONDO - Towards Earth Observation supported monitoring of freshwater biodiversity 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 12:50pm - 1:00pm Seasons of Lakes: Deriving Phytoplankton Phenology using Earth Observation Data 1: Brockmann Consult, Germany; 2: Brockmann Geomatics, Sweden 1:00pm - 1:10pm Assessment of eutrophication dynamics of lakes at a large scale by coupling Sentinel-2 remote sensing, machine learning and field observations 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 1:10pm - 1:20pm Remote-sensing based detection of resilience loss in the terrestrial water cycle 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 |
3:00pm - 4:30pm |
WS: Biodiversity monitoring operationalisation Location: Big Hall Operationalizing Biodiversity Monitoring 1: European Environment Agency (EEA); 2: Wageningen Environmental Research (WENR) Overview of Copernicus Land products Prod. Owner in CLMS and data analyst at the EEA Data for ecosystem extent accounts EEA In-situ data for Copernicus: Challenges and Opportunities EEA Importance of in situ data for European habitat mapping & monitoring Wageningen Environmental Research (WENR), Netherlands, The Experience with combining satellite methods with on the ground vegetation surveys for habitat mapping at national level Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), Sweden |
5:00pm - 6:30pm |
WS: Biodiversity monitoring operationalisation - continued Location: Big Hall |
Date: Thursday, 13/Feb/2025 | |
8:45am - 9:45am |
From Space to Sustainability: EO's Role in a nature-positive economy Location: Big Hall State of Nature Metrics for Piloting Update post consultation University of Oxford, United Kingdom Message from UNEP UNEP FI Message from World Bank World Bank Leveraging Earth Observation for Nature Finance Director, Global Finance Group, University of Oxford Co-I, LEON |
10:00am - 11:30am |
Habitats Suitability , Connectivity and Species Distribution Location: Big Hall Chair: Pedro J Leitão, University of Leipzig Chair: Maria J. Santos, University of Zurich Advancing 1km2 species distribution EBVs for biodiversity monitoring and planning: progress and challenges 1: Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, United States of America; 2: Yale University, United States of America 10:10am - 10:20am From presence-only to abundance species distribution models using transfer learning 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 10:20am - 10:30am Predicting species distributions in the open ocean using satellite-derived environmental data and convolutional neural networks 1: UMR Marbec, IRD, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer - Montpellier, France; 2: INRIA, Montpellier, France 10:30am - 10:40am Mapping more of biodiversity: integrating spatial and phylogenetic information to improve data-deficient species distributions 1: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, Yale University, United States of America; 2: Biodiversity and Global Change Center, Yale University 10:40am - 10:50am An interactive tool to monitor species genetic diversity from Earth observations 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 10:50am - 11:00am Monitoring biodiversity with ecological niche models and time series of remote sensing products 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 11:00am - 11:10am Walruses from Space: walrus counts from simultaneously captured remotely piloted aircraft system imagery vs very high-resolution satellite imagery 1: British Antarctic Survey, United Kingdom; 2: Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway; 3: WWF-UK, United Kingdom 11:10am - 11:20am Albatrosses From Space: A citizen science approach to monitor remote colonies using satellite imagery 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 11:20am - 11:30am MagGeo – A data fusion tool to link Earth's magnetic data from Swarm Mission to Wildlife GPS trajectories The University of St Andrews, United Kingdom |
12:00pm - 1:30pm |
Ecosystem Vulnerability, Integrity and Resilience Location: Big Hall Chair: Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, University of Zurich Chair: Fabian D. Schneider, Aarhus University Quantifying the relationship between forest structural diversity and forest resilience. 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 12:10pm - 12:20pm Monitoring Biodiversity Change to Guide Conservation Action Using AI and Satellite Time-Series 1: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Los Angeles, USA; 2: Aarhus University, Aarhus, Danmark 12:20pm - 12:30pm Evaluating the impacts of disturbance on forest carbon and structure across the wet tropics using near-coincident GEDI shots 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 12:30pm - 12:40pm Functional Trait Responses to Drought in a temperate forest: Insights from Earth Observation 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 12:40pm - 12:50pm Towards mapping ecosystem resilience from space: canopy defensive properties in European temperate forest revealed with spaceborne imaging spectroscopy Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente 12:50pm - 1:00pm Challenges of broad-scale biodiversity intactness modeling 1: Uppsala University, Sweden; 2: Natural Capital Project, Stanford University, USA; 3: Princeton University, USA 1:00pm - 1:10pm A framework for insect-based biodiversity intactness monitoring and reporting in Africa. International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE, Kenya 1:10pm - 1:20pm Using synthetic controls to attribute biodiversity shifts to remotely sensed landscape modifications 1: LECA, CNRS, France; 2: VITO NV, Belgium |
3:00pm - 4:30pm |
WS: Integration in-situ and SRS Integration Location: Big Hall From Uncertainty to Action: Integrating In-Situ and Remote Sensing Campaigns for Open Biodiversity Data Products 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 |
5:00pm - 6:30pm |
WS: Integration in in-situ and SRS Integration - continued Location: Big Hall |
Date: Friday, 14/Feb/2025 | |
8:45am - 10:15am |
Session Summaries Location: Big Hall Session Summaries ESA, Italy |
10:45am - 12:15pm |
Workshop Summaries Location: Big Hall Workshop Summaries ESA, Italy |
12:15pm - 1:15pm |
Conference wrap-up discussion Location: Big Hall |
1:15pm - 1:30pm |
Conference Closure Location: Big Hall |
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