Conference Agenda

Head of the Climate Action, Sustainability and Science Department, on behalf of Simonetta Cheli, ESA Director of Earth Observation Programme.

Rune Floberghagen

European Space Agency (ESA)

Deputy Director for Earth Science (video recording)

Julie Robinson

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Deputy Director-General

Joanna Drake

European Commission, DG RTD (research & Innvation)

Director for Biodiversity

Humberto Delgado-Rosa

European Commission DG ENV (Environment)

European Commission DG JRC (Joint Research Centre)

Ivan Kulis Kulis

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

Astrid Schomaker

Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat

Secretary General

Musonda Mumba

Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Secretariat

Executive Secretary, introduced by Aidin Niamir, Head of IPBES Data and Knowledge Technical Support Unit

Anne Larigauderie

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Secretariat

Executive Secretary

Vidar Helgesen

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) – Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)

Director

Yana Gevorgyan

Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Secretariat

Supporting the Processes underpinning Biodiversity Policy Monitoring and Reporting in Europe

Grégoire Dubois

EC JRC

Introduction Pleanry 2

Stefanie Lumnitz

ESA, Italy

How will we know if we are bending the curve of biodiversity?

Andy Gonzalez

GEO BON, McGill University

Implementation of Earth Observations for Biodiversity Monitoring in Europe

Petteri Vihervaara

BIODIVERSA+, SYKE - Finnish Environment Institute, Finland

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

Marco Celesti

European Space Agency, Netherlands, The

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

Nuno Miranda

ESA, Italy

NASA Earth - New U.S. Earth Observing Missions

Woody Turner

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

CNES Space Missions for the Monitoring and Study of Biodiversity

Philippe Maisongrande

CNES, France

Earth Observation missions for Biodiversity Monitoring

Osamu Ochiai

JAXA, Japan

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

Lucie Viciano

Canadian Space Agency, Canada

AquaWatch Australia - A ‘weather service’ for water quality

Adriana Para

CSIRO, Australia

Global Ecosystems Atlas: Measure to Manage

Yana Gevorgyan

GEO secretariat, IGO

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

Gary Geller¹, Shaun Levick², Sandra Luque³, Roger Sayre⁴

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

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

Roger G Sayre

U.S. Geological Survey, United States of America

Availability and use of in situ data for European habitat mapping

Sander Mucher, Stan Los, Stephan Hennekens

Wageningen Environmental Research (WENR), the Netherlands

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brianna Pickstone¹, Sareh Rowlands², Richard Delahay³, Karen Anderson¹

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

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

Gary Geller

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1: University of Cambridge; 2: Imperial College London

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gabriela Schaepman-Strub

University of Zurich, Switzerland

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

Julien Radoux, Pierre Defourny

Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Session Summaries

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Workshop Summaries

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