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Session Overview
Location: Magellan meeting room
Building 1
Date: Tuesday, 11/Feb/2025
10:00am
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11:30am
Ecosystem Traits and their use in biodiversity applications
Location: Magellan meeting room
Chair: Micol Rossini, University of Milano Bicocca
Chair: Gregory Duveiller, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
 
10:00am - 10:10am

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

Fabian D. Schneider1,2, Ryan Pavlick3,2, Ting Zheng4, Antonio Ferraz2, Natalie Queally4, Ethan Shafron2,5, Morgan Dean6, Laura Berman4, Zhiwei Ye4, Giulia Tagliabue7, Philip A. Townsend4

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



10:10am - 10:20am

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

Kendall M. Jefferys1, Luísa G. Carvalheiro2, Adrian Gonzalez-Chaves2, Jacobus Petersen1, Xiongjie Deng1, Waira S. Machida2, Katherine Baldock3, Danilo Boscolo4,5, Daniel Carstensen6, Alice Classen7, Patrícia Alves Ferreira5,8, Breno M. Freitas9, Alipio Pacheco Filho9, Travis J. Guy10, Ruben Heleno11, Christopher Kaiser-Bunbury12, Luciano Elsinor Lopes5,8, Gabriel Guariglia Perez8, Raimunda Gomes Silva Soares4, Anna Traveset13, Chloe Strevens1, Jesús Aguirre-Gutierrez1

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



10:20am - 10:30am

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

Dhruva Kathuria1,2, Yoseline Angel1,3, Evan Lang1,4, Dana Chadwick5, Shawn Serbin1, Philip G Brodrick5, Philip A Townsend6, Ting Zheng6, Alexey N Shiklomanov1

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



10:30am - 10:40am

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

Andreas Huth1, Leonard Schulz1, Kostas Papathanassiou2

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



10:40am - 10:50am

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

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

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



10:50am - 11:00am

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

Jessica P. Thomas1, Andrew M. Cunliffe1, Hugh A. Graham1,2, Tom Powell1, Plinio B. Camargo3, Ted R. Feldpausch1

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

12:00pm
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1:30pm
Ecosystem Function and Functional Diversity
Location: Magellan meeting room
Chair: Javier Pacheco Labrador, Spanish National Research Council
Chair: Roshanak Darvishzadeh, University of Twente, Faculty ITC
 
12:00pm - 12:10pm

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

José Miguel Cerda-Paredes1,2, Laura C. Pérez-Giraldo1, Javier Pacheco-Labrador3, Anna K. Schweiger4, Miguel D. Mahecha5, Javier Lopatin1,2,6, Dylan Craven1,7

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



12:10pm - 12:20pm

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

Christian Rossi1,2, Michele Torresani3, Michela Perrone4, Leon Hauser1

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



12:20pm - 12:30pm

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

Javier Pacheco-Labrador1,2, Ulisse Gomarasca2, Daniel E. Pabon-Moreno2, Wantong Li2, Martin Jung2, Mirco Migliavacca3, Gregory Duveiller2

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



12:30pm - 12:40pm

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

Ulisse Gomarasca1,2, Gregory Duveiller1, Javier Pacheco-Labrador3, Alessandro Cescatti4, Christian Wirth1,2,5, Markus Reichstein1,5, Mirco Migliavacca4

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



12:40pm - 12:50pm

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

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

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



12:50pm - 1:00pm

Quantifying the functional trait variation across tropical forests with satellite data

Jesus Aguirre Gutierrez

University of Oxford, United Kingdom



1:00pm - 1:10pm

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

Gregory Duveiller1, Pierre Ploton2, Nicolas Barbier2, Ulisse Gomarasca1, Felix Cremer1, Maria Piles3, Javier Pacheco-Labrador4, Jordi Martinez-Vilalta5,6, Jean-François Bastin7, Raphaël Pélissier2

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

3:00pm
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4:30pm
WS: GBiOS
Location: Magellan meeting room
 

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

Andrew Gonzalez1, Alice Catherine Hughes2

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



Co-designing the European Biodiversity Observation Centre and Network

Andres Camilo Marmol-Guijarro

German Centre of Integrative Biodiversity Research (IDiv), Germany



Data for Asia- what do we know?

Alice Catherine Hughes

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



Innovation journey for the forest monitoring tools developed in FAO

Yelena Finegold

FAO, Italy



Random Thoughts on Starting a GBiOS

Gary Geller

NASA, United States of America

5:00pm
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6:30pm
WS: GBiOS - continued
Location: Magellan meeting room
Date: Wednesday, 12/Feb/2025
10:00am
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11:30am
Marine Ecosystems
Location: Magellan meeting room
Chair: Emanuele Organelli, CNR ISMAR
Chair: Marie-Helene Rio, European Space Agency
 
10:00am - 10:10am

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

Enrique Montes1,2, Maria T. Kavanaugh3, Tyler Christian1,2, Frank E. Muller-Karger4, Nicole C. Millete5, Luke R. Thompson6,2, Christopher R. Kelble7

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



10:10am - 10:20am

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

Riccardo Nanni1,2, Emanuele Organelli1, Christian Marchese1, Michela Sammartino2, Simone Colella1, Bruno Buongiorno Nardelli2

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



10:20am - 10:30am

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

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

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



10:30am - 10:40am

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

Maria João Lima, Ana Barbosa

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



10:40am - 10:50am

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

Roy El Hourany1, Juan Pierella Karlusich2,3, Pedro Junger3, Lucie Zinger3, Hubert Loisel1, Chris Bowler2, Marina Levy4

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



10:50am - 11:00am

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

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

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



11:00am - 11:10am

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

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

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



11:10am - 11:20am

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

Ludwig HOUEGNIGAN, Eduardo CUESTA, Darcy BRADLEY

Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain

12:00pm
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1:30pm
Coastal Ecosystems
Location: Magellan meeting room
Chair: Victor Martinez Vicente, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Chair: Marie-Helene Rio, European Space Agency
 
12:00pm - 12:10pm

A Full Map of European Intertidal Seagrass.

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

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



12:10pm - 12:20pm

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

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

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



12:20pm - 12:30pm

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

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

i-Sea, France



12:30pm - 12:40pm

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

Elodie Blanchard1, Thibault Catry1, Quentin Marsal1, Benoit Béguet2, Jean-François Faure1, Gwenaël Abril3, Johanna Jupin4, Christophe Proisy5,6

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



12:40pm - 12:50pm

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

Christophe PROISY1,2, Thibault CATRY3, Elodie BLANCHARD3, Paul-Emile AUGUSSEAU1,2,4, Médie COLLET5, Adrien STAQUET1,2,4, Quentin MARSAL2,3, Gwenaël ABRIL6, Edward ANTHONY7, Elodie BORIAU1,2, Léa ACKERER8, Benoit BEGUET9, Fabian BLANCHARD4, Jean-Bernard DUCHEMIN5, François FROMARD10, Antoine GARDEL4, Ludovic GRANJON4, Martine HOSSAERT11, Dominique JOLY11, Johanna JUPIN12, Tanguy MAURY4, Christophe PEYREFITTE5, Philip ROCHE13, Pierre SCEMAMA14, Olivier THEBAUD14, Romain WALCKER10

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



12:50pm - 1:00pm

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

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

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



1:00pm - 1:10pm

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

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

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



1:10pm - 1:20pm

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

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

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

3:00pm
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4:30pm
WS: Ecosystem Conservation
Location: Magellan meeting room
 

Co-designing Earth Observation Solutions for Ecosystems Conservation

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

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

5:00pm
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6:30pm
WS: Ecosystem Conservation - continued
Location: Magellan meeting room
Date: Thursday, 13/Feb/2025
10:00am
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11:30am
Ecosystem Condition and Restoration
Location: Magellan meeting room
Chair: Duccio Rocchini, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
Chair: Jana Mullerova, Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti n.L.
 
10:00am - 10:10am

Monitoring forest ecosystem restoration with FERM and SEPAL geospatial tools

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

FAO, Italy



10:10am - 10:20am

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 Mosig7,8, 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



10:20am - 10:30am

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

Mario Vargas Shakaim1,2, Diana Mastracci1,2

1: Geo Indigenous Alliance; 2: Space4Innovation



10:30am - 10:40am

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

Janik Deutscher1, Manuela Hirschmugl1,2, Petra Miletich1, Florian Lippl2, Martin Puhm1

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



10:40am - 10:50am

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



10:50am - 11:00am

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



11:00am - 11:15am

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

12:00pm
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1:30pm
Biodiversity-Related Risks and Nature Markets
Location: Magellan meeting room
Chair: Julien Radoux, Université catholique de Louvain
Chair: Nicholas Coops, UBC FOrestry
 
12:00pm - 12:10pm

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

Alessandra La Notte

International Consultant on Natural Capital Accounting, Italy



12:10pm - 12:20pm

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

Christophe Christiaen, Stephanie Walton

University of Oxford, United Kingdom



12:20pm - 12:30pm

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

Ruben Valbuena

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden



12:30pm - 12:40pm

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



12:40pm - 12:50pm

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



12:50pm - 1:05pm

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

Benjamin Leutner, Maryn van der Laarse, Sonja Stuchtey

The Landbanking Group, Germany



1:05pm - 1:20pm

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

3:00pm
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4:30pm
WS: Copernicus for biodiversity
Location: Magellan meeting room
 

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

5:00pm
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6:30pm
WS: Copernicus for biodiversity - continued
Location: Magellan meeting room

 
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