Conference Agenda

Drought-induced changes in ecosystem functioning across Europe: drivers and resilience of European biodiversity hotspots

Christin Abel, Yan Cheng, Guy Schurgers, Stephanie Horion

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Spatial Biodiversity Modeling: The utility of remote sensing to fill gaps in our biodiversity knowledge

Tobias Andermann, Adrian Baggström

Uppsala University, Sweden

Modeling arthropod diversity through space and time with metabarcoding, convolutional neural networks and remote sensing

Adrian Baggström, Tobias Andermann

Uppsala University, Sweden

Bridging the gap between remote sensing phenology and the underlying ecophysiological processes

Sofia Bajocco¹, Carlo Ricotta², Simone Bregaglio¹

1: Council for Agricultural Research and Economics - CREA, Italy; 2: University of Rome, "La Sapienza", Italy

Towards an Accurate High-Resolution Global Canopy Height Model

Vojtěch Barták

Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

Evaluating Sentinel-2-derived spectral biodiversity metrics for forest biodiversity monitoring in African tropical conservation landscapes

Beatriz Bellón¹, Koffi Ambroise Yéboua¹, Frédérique Montfort¹, Jean-Baptiste Féret², Marie Nourtier¹, Virginie Vergnes³, Clovis Grinand¹

1: N’Lab, Nitidæ, Maison de la Télédétection, 500 rue Jean-François Breton, 34093 Montpellier, France; 2: UMR-TETIS, IRSTEA, Maison de la Télédétection, 500 rue Jean-François Breton, 34093 Montpellier, France; 3: Nitidæ, Cocody-Riviera Golf, Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Habitat preferences vary between reintroduced and wild-born Przewalski's horses in the Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area, Mongolia

Anna Bernátková¹, Salvador Arenas-Castro², Oyunsaikhan Ganbaatar³, Martina Komárková^1,5, Neftalí Sillero⁴, Jaroslav Šimek¹, Francisco Ceacero⁵

1: Prague Zoo, Czech Republic; 2: Area of Ecology, Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Cordoba, Spain; 3: We Help Them to Survive Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; 4: CICGE-Centro de Investigação em Ciências Geo-Espaciais Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal; 5: Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic.

The Hyperspectral Bio-Optical Observations Sailing on Tara (HyperBOOST) dataset: relevance for the development and validation of coastal and oceanic biodiversity applications.

Vittorio Ernesto Brando¹, Christian Marchese¹, Margherita Costanzo¹, Federico Falcini¹, Luis Gonzalez Vilas¹, Victor Martinez Vicente², Tom Jordan², David Doxaran³, Isabella Mayot³, Chiara Santinell⁴, Emmanuel Boss⁵, Marie Helene Rio⁶, Javier Alonso Concha⁶

1: CNR-ISMAR, Italy; 2: PML, UK; 3: LOV, FR; 4: CNR-IBF, Italy; 5: Univ. Of Maine, USA; 6: ESRIN, ESA

Exploring the relationship between functional diversity and water use efficiency in a semi-arid grassland using a multi-scale approach

Vicente Burchard-Levine^1,2, Héctor Nieto¹, Javier Pacheco-Labrador², Rosario Gonzalez-Cascon³, David Riaño², Benjamin Mary¹, M.Dolores Raya-Sereno², Miguel Herrezuelo¹, Arnaud Carrara⁴, M.Pilar Martín²

1: Tech4Agro, Institute of Agricultural Sciences (ICA), CSIC, Madrid, Spain; 2: Environmental Remote Sensing and Spectroscopy Laboratory (SpecLab), CSIC, Madrid, Spain.; 3: National Institute for Agriculture and Food Research and Technology (INIA), CSIC, Madrid, Spain.; 4: Fundación Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterráneo (CEAM), 46980 Paterna, Spain.

BioSCape - Advancing remote sensing of biodiversity through an integrated field campaign.

Anabelle Williamson Cardoso^1,2, Adam M. Wilson¹, Erin L. Hestir³, Jasper A. Slingsby², Philip G. Brodrick⁴

1: Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, United States of America; 2: Biological Sciences Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa; 3: CITRIS, University of California Merced, United States of America; 4: Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, United States of America

Earth observation in the framework of the Italian National Forest Inventory for biodiversity monitoring

Gherardo Chirici^1,2, Costanza Borghi¹, Giovanni D'Amico¹, Piermaria Corona², Walter Mattioli², Giancarlo Papitto³

1: Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy; 2: CREA, Italy; 3: Carabinieri, CUFA, Italy

Long-term Dynamics of Coastal Dune Landscapes and Floristic Diversity: Insights from a Quarter Century of Resurveys in Castelporziano Presidential Estate

Elena Cini¹, Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta¹, Simona Sarmati¹, Silvia Del Vecchio², Daniela Ciccarelli³, Flavio Marzialetti^4,5

1: Roma Tre University, Italy; 2: University of Bologna, Italy; 3: University of Pisa, Italy; 4: University of Sassari, Italy; 5: National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy

Combining a trait-based dynamic vegetation model and remote sensing to estimate changes of biodiversity in time

Mateus Dantas de Paula, Thomas HIckler

Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, Germany

Biodiversity Insights from Space, Linking Earth Observations and Biodiversity Science

Roshanak Darvishzadeh¹, Marc Paganini², Jeannine Cavender Bares³, Maria Santos⁴

1: University of Twente, Faculty ITC, Netherlands, The; 2: ESA, ESRIN; 3: Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; 4: University of Zurich, Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography

Analyzing Satellite Scaling Bias Using Drone Data: Application to Microphytobenthos Studies

Augustin Debly¹, Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies¹, Simon Oiry¹, Julien Deloffre², Romain Levaillant², Jéremy Mahieu², Ernesto Tonatiuh Mendoza², Hajar Saad El Imanni¹, Philippe Rosa¹, Laurent Barillé¹, Vona Méléder¹

1: Nantes Université, Institut des Substances et Organismes de la Mer, ISOMer, UR 2160, F-44000 Nantes, France; 2: Univ Rouen Normandie, Univ Caen Normandie, CNRS, M2C, UMR 6143, F-76000 Rouen, France

A new operational approach for landscape characterisation and mapping based on radiometric information

Alexandre Defossez², Louise Lemettais¹, Samuel Alleaume², Sandra Luque², Anne-Elisabeth Laques¹, Yonas Alim³, Simon Madec³, Laurent Demagistri¹, Agnès Bégué³

1: IRD, France; 2: INRAE, France; 3: CIRAD, France

Tree Species Classification and Forest Evolution Using Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing: A Case Study in the Matese Regional Park

Gabriele Delogu¹, Miriam Perretta², Cassandra Funsten², Lorenzo Boccia²

1: Tuscia University, Italy; 2: Federico II University, Italy

Leveraging Remote Sensing and AI to Monitor Functional Traits in Tropical Forests

Xiongjie Deng

Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Plant trait responses to disturbance across the California Sierra Nevada

Carissa DeRanek¹, Fabian D Schneider², K. Dana Chadwick³, Elsa Ordway¹

1: University of California, Los Angeles; 2: Aarhus University; 3: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Estimation of forest EBVs with imaging spectroscopy: two cases studies

Jean-Baptiste Feret², David Sheeren³, Xavier Briottet¹, Adeline Karine¹, Sophie Fabre¹, Marc Lang²

1: ONERA, France; 2: INRAE, France; 3: ENSAT, France

Monitoring the Phenology, Distribution, and Mortality of Keystone Tropical Tree Species from Space

Antonio Ferraz¹, Gary Goran¹, Vicente Vasquez², Helene Muller-Landau³, Evan Gora³, Stephanie Bohlman², Stuart Wright³, John Burley⁴, Sara Beery⁵

1: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA; 2: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA; 3: Smithsonian Institution, Gamboa, Panama; 4: The Australian National University, Camberra, Australia; 5: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Opportunities for monitoring aquatic fungi with earth observation data

Eirik Aasmo Finne¹, Teppo Rämä¹, Jennifer Anderson²

1: The Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT the Arctic University of Norway; 2: Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Integrating remote sensing and biodiversity observations to map plant taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional beta-diversity in the Greater Cape Floristic Region

Matthew Fitzpatrick¹, Xin Chen¹, Andrew Elmore¹, Daniel Spalink², Daijang Li³, Graham Durrheim⁴, John Measey⁵, Suzaan Kritzinger-Klopper⁵, Nicola van Wilgen⁴, Zishan Ebrahim⁴, Andrew Turner⁶

1: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, United States of America; 2: Texas A&M University; 3: The University of Arizona; 4: South African National Parks; 5: Stellenbosch University; 6: CapeNature

Camera traps as ground truth: Refining satellite-based vegetation phenology and land cover mapping across Europe

Magali Frauendorf, Tim Hofmeester

Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden

Monitoring emperor penguin populations by satellite

Peter Fretwell

British Antarctic Survey, United Kingdom

Walrus from space project: citizen scientists found and count walruses in very high-resolution satellite imagery

Peter T. Fretwell¹, Hannah C. Cubaynes¹, Alejandra Vergara-Pena², Rod Downie²

1: British Antarctic Survey, United Kingdom; 2: WWF-UK

Classification of woody vegetation landscape features

Adam Gabrič^1,2, Žiga Kokalj¹

1: Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia; 2: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering

Large cale monitoring of inland freshwater hydrologic parameters to study the functioning of aquatic environments that are being modified by climate change Example of the Garonne river basin

Jean-Paul GACHELIN², Thibaut FERET¹, Jean-Pierre REBILLARD¹, Jean-Christophe POISSON²

1: Agende de l'Eau Adour Garonne, France; 2: vortex-io, France

The USGEO Earth Observation Assessment: characterizing pathways from EO systems to biodiversity and ecosystem objectives

Iris Garthwaite, Kelly Bruno, Ellen Wengert, Gregory Snyder

U.S. Geological Survey, United States of America

Assessing Interactions Among Landscape Connectivity, Climate Change, and Land Use/Cover Transformations Using Earth Observation Data and the PANDORA Model

Federica Gobattoni¹, Raffaele Pelorosso¹, Sergio Noce², Chiara De Notaris², Ciro Apollonio¹, Andrea Petroselli¹, Fabio Recanatesi¹, Maria Nicolina Ripa¹

1: Tuscia University, DAFNE Department, Italy; 2: CMCC Foundation, Viterbo, Italy

Measuring 3D Vegetation Structure from Space: The Potential of Merging LiDAR Observations with Multisource Remote Sensing Data

Sérgio Godinho, Leonel Corado, Juan Guerra-Hernández

University of Évora, Portugal

MMEarth-Bench: Global Environmental Tasks for Multimodal Geospatial Models

Lucia Gordon^1,2, Serge Belongie², Christian Igel², Nico Lang²

1: Harvard University, United States; 2: University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Establishing causal links which facilitate remote sensing of biodiversity metrics

Onkar Gulati, Sadiq Jaffer, Anil Madhavapeddy

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Temporal dynamics of trait-based functional diversity from satellite-based time series

Isabelle Helfenstein¹, Tiziana Koch^1,2, Meredith Schuman^1,3, Felix Morsdorf¹

1: Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland; 3: Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Detecting tree vitality losses in Pinus sylvestris stands from space

Stien Heremans^1,2, Ellen Desie², Ben Somers²

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

BioSCape Data Accessibility: What the data is and where to find it

Erin Hestir¹, Adam Wilson², Jasper Slingsby³, Anabelle Cardoso², Philip Brodrick⁴, Michele Thornton⁵

1: University of California Merced, United States of America; 2: University at Buffalo, United States of America; 3: University of Cape Town, South Africa; 4: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States of America; 5: Oak Ridge Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, United States of America

Mapping fractional cover of evergreen broad-leaved species in Italian forests using Sentinel-2 time series

Benedikt Hiebl¹, Giacomo Calvia², Nicola Alessi³, Alessandro Bricca², Gianmaria Bonari⁴, Stefan Zerbe², Martin Rutzinger¹

1: Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Austria; 2: Faculty of Agriculture, Environmental and Food Science, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy; 3: Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Roma, Italy; 4: Department of Life Science, University of Siena, Italy

Developing metrics for Southeast Asia

Alice Catherine Hughes

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

The dynamics of the Amazon forests and the role of forest structure - linking vegetation modelling and remote sensing

Andreas Huth¹, Leonard Schulz¹, Luise Bauer¹, Rico Fischer¹, Friedrich Bohn¹, Kostas Papathanassiou², Edna Roedig¹

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

Satellite Remote Sensing-Based Monitoring of the Relationship Between Low-Salinity Waters and Essential Marine Variables in the East China Sea

Eunna Jang¹, Jong-Kuk Choi¹, Jae-Hyun Ahn¹, Dukwon Bae²

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

Evaluating Transpiration Dynamics in Pedunculate Oak Using Sentinel-2 Imagery: A Study of Spačva Forest, Croatia

Nela Jantol¹, Hrvoje Kutnjak²

1: Oikon Ltd.- Institute of Applied Ecology, Croatia; 2: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Croatia

Challenges and opportunities in satellite-based forest phenology

Ursa Kanjir¹, Ana Potočnik Buhvald², Mitja Skudnik^3,4,

1: ZRC SAZU, Slovenia; 2: Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; 3: Biotechnical Faculty, Universiy of Ljubljana, Slovenia; 4: Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia

deadtrees.earth - an open-access platform for accessing, contributing, analyzing, and visualizing remote sensing-based tree mortality data

Teja Kattenborn¹, Clemens Mosig², Janusch Vajna-Jehle¹, Yan Cheng³, Henrik Hartmann⁴, David Montero², Samuli Junttila⁵, Stéphanie Horion³, Mirela Beloiu-Schwenke⁶, Miguel D. Mahecha²

1: Sensor-based Geoinformatics (geosense), Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Germany; 2: Institute for Earth System Science and Remote Sensing, Leipzig University, Germany; 3: Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 4: Institute for Forest Protection, Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Germany; 5: School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Finland; 6: Department of Environmental Systems Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Reconstructing Historical Ecosystem Structures: Extending GEDI LiDAR Data with Machine Learning for Long-term Change Analysis

Nielja Sofia Knecht, Ingo Fetzer, Juan Rocha

Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden

Integrating AVIRIS-4 Imaging Spectroscopy and In-Situ Data for Grassland Biodiversity Monitoring

Tiziana L. Koch¹, Christian Rossi^1,2, Andreas Hueni¹, Marius Voegtli¹, Maria J. Santos¹

1: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: Swiss National Park, Switzerland

Which aspects of environmental heterogeneity are associated with higher thermal plasticity in European Hypericum populations?

Susanna Koivusaari^1,2, Maria Hällfors³, Marko Hyvärinen², Martti Levo⁴, Miska Luoto¹, Charlotte Møller², Øystein Opedal⁵, Laura Pietikäinen², Andrés Romero-Bravo⁶, Anniina Mattila²

1: Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Finland; 2: Botany Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Finland; 3: Nature Solutions Unit, Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland; 4: Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics group, Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland; 5: Department of Biology, University of Lund, Sweden; 6: Plant Evolutionary Ecology Lab, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Remote sensing insights on phenological properties of plant communities in coastal wetlands

Javier Lopatin^1,2,3, Rocío A. Araya-López⁴, Iryna Dronova⁵

1: Faculty of Engineering and Science, University Adolfo Ibáñez, Diagonal Las Torres 2640, Peñalolén, Santiago, Chile; 2: Data Observatory Foundation, ANID Technology Center No. DO210001, Chile; 3: Center for Climate Resilience Research (CR)2, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile; 4: Deakin Marine Research and Innovation Centre, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood Campus, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia; 5: Departments of Environmental Science, Policy & Management (Rausser College of Natural Resources) and Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning (College of Environmental Design), University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-2000, USA

Spatio-temporal analysis of remote sensing ecological indices to model insect migratory dynamics

Roger López-Mañas^1,3, Joan Pere Pascual-Díaz¹, Clément P. Bataille⁴, Cristina Domingo-Marimon², Gerard Talavera¹

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

From satellites to smartphones: harnessing citizen science and Earth observation to unlock global perspectives on plant functional diversity

Daniel Lusk¹, Sophie Wolf², Daria Svidzinska³, Jens Kattge^3,4, Francesco Maria Sabatini^3,5,6, Helge Bruelheide⁶, Gabriella Damasceno³, Álvaro Moreno Martínez⁷, Teja Kattenborn¹

1: Department for Sensor-based Geoinformatics, University of Freiburg; 2: Remote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research, Leipzig University; 3: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig; 4: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; 5: BIOME Lab, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna; 6: Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg; 7: Image Signal Processing Group, Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), University of Valencia

Assessing Biodiversity and Functional Traits of Tree Communities at Fine Scale Using Advanced Remote Sensing Techniques

Felipe Martello, Alice Rosen, Eleanor Thomson, Cecilia Dahlsjö, Yadvinder Malhi, Jesus AGuirre-Gutierres

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Satellite remote sensing monitoring of phytoplankton diversity trends in the Mediterranean Sea

Gonzalo Martínez Fornos^1,2,3, Annalisa Di Cicco⁴, Marco Talone^1,2, Elisa Berdalet²

1: Barcelona Expert Centre, Barcelona, Spain; 2: Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain; 3: Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; 4: Istituto di Scienze Marine (ISMAR-CNR), Rome, Italy

Assessment of spectral eco-physiological traits of forests affected by Prunus serotina and Robinia pseudoacacia invasions in Central Europe using multispectral Sentinel-2 imagery

Flavio Marzialetti^1,2, Sebastian Bury³, André Große-Stoltenberg^4,5, Vanessa Lozano^1,2, Giuseppe Brundu^1,2, Marcin K. Dyderski³

1: Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Sassari, Viale Italia 39/a, 07100 Sassari, Italy; 2: National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Piazza marina 61, 90133 Palermo, Italy; 3: Institute of Dendrology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Parkowa 5, 62-035 Kórnik, Poland; 4: Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management (ILR), Research Centre for BioSystems, Land Use and Nutrition (iFZ), Justus Liebig University Gießen, Gießen; 5: Center for International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU), Justus Liebig University Gießen, Gießen

The GEO Indigenous Alliance: Bridging Knowledge Systems for Biodiversity Protection

Diana Mastracci

Space4innovation / Geo Indigenous Alliance, Czech Republic

A road map for the digital platform of the Italian National Biodiversity Future Centre

Simone Mereu^1,3, Giuseppe Brundu^2,3, Donatella Spano^2,3

1: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Bioeconomia, CNR-IBE, Sassari, Italy; 2: Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; 3: National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Piazza Marina 61 (c/o palazzo Steri), Palermo, Italy

Sentinel-1 time series for forest moisture monitoring

David Moravec^1,2

1: TU Dresden; 2: Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Applying novel satellite technology to inform design and evaluation of urban Nature Based Solutions.

Michael Munk, Mads Christensen, Nicklas Simonsen, Kenneth Grogan, Lars Boye Hansen

DHI, Denmark

Empowering Indigenous Knowledge for Biodiversity Monitoring with Earth Observation Data.

Elizabeth Grace Murray¹, Francisco Campuzano², Patrick Gorringe³, Aden Re⁴

1: A Liquid Future, France; 2: CoLAB +ATLANTIC, Portugal; 3: Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute; 4: North Maluku Provincial Government, Indonesia

Predicting vegetation Ecosystem Functional Properties in EU from space: opportunities and challenges

Lorenza Nardella¹, Gaia Vaglio Laurin¹, Alessandro Sebastiani², Carlo Calfapietra¹, Bartolomeo Ventura³, Anna Barbati⁴, Riccardo Valentini⁴, Dario Papale⁴

1: CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy; 2: ENEA Agenzia Nazionale - Centro Ricerche Casaccia; 3: EURAC; 4: DIBAF Università della Tuscia

Mudflat microphytobenthos detection and associated carbon flux: preliminary results from a Canadian site

Naaman M. Omar¹, Myriam A. Barbeau¹, Christopher YS Wong¹, Courtney Allen¹, Abigail Dickinson¹, Jeff Ollerhead², Amanda Loder³, Graham Clark⁴, Eke I. Kalu¹, Adrian Reyes-Prieto¹, Damith Perera⁴, Diana J. Hamilton², Douglas A. Campbell², Vona Méléder⁵

1: University of New Brunswick, Canada; 2: Mount Allison University, Canada; 3: Environment & Climate Change, Canada; 4: St. Francis Xavier University, Canada; 5: Nantes Université, France

Improved tree diversity monitoring by combining satellite and aerial images

Daniel Ortiz-Gonzalo, Dimitri Gominski, Martin Brandt, Rasmus Fensholt

University of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Denmark

Forest structure observation using interferometric and tomographic synthetic aperture radar measurements: Current understanding and open questions

Matteo Pardini, Lea Albrecht, Noelia Romero-Puig, Roman Guliaev, Konstantinos Papathanassiou

German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Fusing optical and SAR satellite imagery for Ecosystem Extent mapping in the Great Western Woodlands, Australia.

Adriana Sofia Parra Ruiz, Zheng-Shu Zhou, Matt Garthwaite, Shaun Levick

CSIRO, Australia

Monitoring Climatic Anomalies and Vegetation Functioning in Italian Protected Areas through Satellite and Climatic Indices

Martina Perez, Nicola Alessi, Giulia Marchetti, Emiliano Agrillo, Emanuela Carli, Laura Casella, Alice Pezzarossa, Francesca Pretto, Pierangela Angelini

ISPRA (Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale), Rome (Italy)

Taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of plants as mediators of stability in mountain ecosystems: A Study in the Central Andes of Chile

Laura C. Pérez-Giraldo¹, Javier Lopatin^1,2, Dylan Craven^1,3, José Miguel Cerda-Paredes^1,2

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

Two decades of Spectral Variation Hypothesis: advances and challenges in estimating biodiversity with remote sensing

Michela Perrone¹, Christian Rossi², Duccio Rocchini^1,3, Leon T. Hauser⁴, Jean- Baptiste Féret⁵, Vítězslav Moudrý¹, Petra Šímová¹, Carlo Ricotta⁶, Giles M. Foody⁷, Patrick Kacic⁸, Hannes Feilhauer⁹, Marco Malavasi¹⁰, Roberto Tognetti¹¹, Michele Torresani¹¹

1: Department of Spatial Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic; 2: Department of Geoinformation, Swiss National Park, Switzerland; 3: BIOME Lab, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy; 4: Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland; 5: TETIS, INRAE, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, CNRS, Université Montpellier, France; 6: Department of Environmental Biology, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy; 7: School of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK; 8: Department of Remote Sensing, University of Würzburg, Germany; 9: Remote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research, University of Leipzig, Germany; 10: Department of Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Sassari, Italy; 11: Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy

Earth Observation data for changes analysis in italian terrestrial ecosystems due to wildfires disturbance

Alice Pezzarossa, Emiliano Agrillo, Roberto Inghilesi, Alessandro Mercatini, Nazario Tartaglione

Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA)

The role of seasonality in remote sensing predictors for bird species distribution models

Dominika Prajzlerová

Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic

Cracking Humboldts Enigma by Earth Observation

Erik Prins

Prins Engineering, Denmark

A Novel Marine Photosynthesis Index for Enhanced Monitoring of Coastal Marine Ecosystems

Erik Prins

Prins Engineering, Denmark

Vegetation and spectral diversity across wetlands, forests, and tundra in northern boreal landscapes

Pauli Putkiranta¹, Aleksi Räsänen^2,3, Tarmo Virtanen¹

1: University of Helsinki, Finland; 2: University of Oulu, Finland; 3: Natural Resources Institute Finland

Vegetation dynamics in an alpine protected area, the Gran Paradiso National Park (NW Italy) from a remote sensing perspective

Chiara Richiardi^1,2, Consolata Siniscalco², Maria Patrizia Adamo³

1: Laboratory Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Division Anthropic and Climate Change Impacts, ENEA, Saluggia (VC), Italy; 2: Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, Via Pier Andrea Mattioli 25, 10125 Turin, Italy; 3: National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research (IIA), c/o Interateneo Physics Department, Via Amendola 173, 70126 Bari, Italy

Characterization of 4D Forest Structure by Integrating LiDAR and InSAR Measurements

Noelia Romero-Puig, Matteo Pardini, Lea Albrecht, Roman Guliaev, Kostas Papathanassiou

German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Does 3D forest structure predict resilience to drought?

Alice Rosen¹, Thomas Ovenden², Jesus Aguirre-Gutiérrez¹, Tommaso Jucker³, Roberto Salguero-Gómez¹

1: University of Oxford; 2: Forest Research; 3: University of Bristol

Vegetation resilience decreases at the transitional zones of Earth’s forest biomes

Katharina Runge¹, Miguel Berdugo², Yohana Jimenez³, Camille Fournier de Lauriere⁴, Thomas Lauber¹, Jean-François Bastin⁵, Thomas Crowther¹, Lalasia Bialic-Murphy¹

1: Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; 2: Departemento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain; 3: Instituto de Ecología Regional, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina; 4: Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; 5: TERRA Teaching and Research Centre, Gembloux Agro Bio-Tech, University of Liege, Belgium

Assessing the effectiveness of floristic and hydrogeomorphic classification systems in capturing wetland ecosystem functional groups

Maleho Mpho Sadiki^1,3, Heidi van Deventer^1,2, Christel Hansen¹

1: University of Pretoria, South Africa; 2: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, South Africa; 3: Digital Earth Africa

Satellite-based chlorophyll-a “Extreme Highest” and “Extreme Anomalous” indices for the analysis of long-term series of phytoplankton blooms in European seas.

Yolanda Sagarminaga, Angel Borja, Almudena Fontán

AZTI, Marine Research, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA)

ESA’s Impact on Biodiversity: Pilot Assessment

Marta Salieri Lopez

ESA, France

Linking Bird Biodiversity and Structural Diversity in South Tyrol’s Riparian Forests: Insights from Remote Sensing and Acoustic Data

Chiara Salvatori^1,2, Irene Menegaldo², Michele Torresani², Enrico Tomelleri²

1: Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy; 2: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Retrieving Pigments from Multispectral Radiometry Using Machine Learning for Ecosystem Monitoring

Borja Sánchez-López^1,2, Marco Talone^1,2, Jesus Cerquides³, Annalisa Di Cicco⁴, Emanuele Organelli⁴

1: Barcelona Expert Center, Barcelona, Spain; 2: Institut de Ciències del Mar, ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain; 3: Instituto de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial, IIIA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain; 4: Istituto di Scienze Marine, ISMAR-CNR, Rome, Italy

Social-ecological interactions in tropical ecosystems: developing a set of science questions within PANGEA

Maria J. Santos¹, Marius von Essen², Hannah Stouter², Ane Alencar³

1: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: University of California Los Angeles, USA; 3: Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia

Potential of satellite remote sensing for complementing long-term biodiversity monitoring for the German Natural Climate Protection Action Programme

Merlin Schaefer¹, Claudia Hildebrandt¹, Rene Hoefer¹, Christian Schneider¹, Roland Kraemer², Wiebke Zueghart¹

1: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Germany; 2: National Monitoring Centre for Biodiversity, Germany

Denoising Diffusion Models for the Augmentation of Optical Satellite Datasets

Sina Tabea Schulte Strathaus^1,2, Jan Luca Loettgen¹

1: Technical University of Munich, Germany; 2: University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Using satellite data time series to investigate phenological characteristics of invasive aquatic plant species across gradients

Alessandro Quirino Scotti¹, Mariano Bresciani¹, Claudia Giardino^1,2, Monica Pinardi¹, Paolo Villa¹

1: CNR - National Research Council, Italy; 2: National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC)

ESA Coastal Blue Carbon Project : Towards Earth-Observation-based solutions for coastal blue carbon monitoring

Amélie SÉCHAUD¹, Benoit BEGUET¹, Manon TRANCHAND-BESSET¹, Virginie LAFON¹, Aurélie DEHOUCK^1,2, Christophe PROISY³, Thibault CATRY³, Elodie BLANCHARD³, Marlow PELLATT⁴, Karen KOHFELD⁴, Oscar SERRANO⁵, Miguel A. MATEO⁵, Marie-Aude SÉVIN⁶, Timothée COOK⁶, Pierre COAN⁶, Alvise CA'ZORZI⁶, Christine DUPUY⁷, Imad EL-JAMAOUI⁷, Natacha VOLTO⁷, Nicolas LACHAUSSEE⁷, Fanny NOISETTE⁸

1: i-Sea, France; 2: Vois-là, Canada; 3: Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), France; 4: Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada; 5: Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes (CEAB), CSIC, Spain; 6: BlueSeeds, France; 7: Littoral Environnement et Sociétés (LIENSs), UMR 7266, CNRS-La Rochelle Université, France; 8: Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), Canada

Assessing change in vegetation in the last 18 years on Pianosa Island (Italy) pairing remote sensing data with taxonomic and functional diversity.

Eugenia Siccardi, Mariasole Calbi, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Alice Misuri, Bruno Foggi, Lorella Dell'Olmo, Daniele Viciani, Michele Mugnai

University of Florence, Italy

EO foundation models for large-scale biodiversity modeling across taxonomic realms

Sara Si-Moussi, Joaquim Estopinan, Wilfried Thuiller

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

FOREST FUNCTIONAL TRAITS FROM SATELLITE IMAGERY

Giulia Tagliabue, Cinzia Panigada, Beatrice Savinelli, Luigi Vignali, Micol Rossini

University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

European forests phenology as seen by MODIS Leaf Area Index and GEDI Plant Area Index

Gaia Vaglio Laurin⁴, Alexander Cotrina-Sanchez¹, David Coomes², James Ball², Amelia Holcomb³, Carlo Calfapietra⁴, Riccardo Valentini⁴

1: Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food, and Forestry Systems, Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy.; 2: Conservation Research Institute, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.; 3: Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; 4: Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems, National Research Council, Montelibretti Research Area, Italy

Linking spectral, phylogenetic and functional diversity of wetland plant communities

Paolo Villa¹, Rossano Bolpagni², Maria B. Castellani^3,4, Andrea Coppi⁴, Alice Dalla Vecchia², Lorenzo Lastrucci⁵, Erika Piaser^1,6

1: National Research Council (CNR-IREA), Milano, Italy; 2: University of Parma, Parma, Italy; 3: National Research Council (CNR-IBBR), Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; 4: University of Florence, Firenze, Italy; 5: University of Florence, Natural History Museum, Firenze, Italy; 6: Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Remote sensing of plant diversity from terrestrial to aquatic systems – a case study in Italy

Paolo Villa¹, Rossano Bolpagni², Alice Dalla Vecchia², Erika Piaser^1,3, Cong Xu⁴, Yuan Zeng⁴, Zhaoju Zheng⁴

1: National Research Council (CNR-IREA), Milano, Italy; 2: University of Parma, Parma, Italy; 3: Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy; 4: Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIR-CAS), Beijing, China

From Space to Species: Leveraging Geospatial Data and Species Observations to Enhance Biodiversity Monitoring and Reporting in Alberta, Canada

Shannon Wagner¹, Monica Kohler¹, Katherine Maxcy¹, David Roberts², Jennifer Hird¹

1: Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, Canada; 2: Innotech Alberta, Canada

Inclusive international collaboration in biodiversity field and remote sensing campaigns - Lessons from BioSCape in South Africa

Adam M Wilson¹, Erin Hestir², Jasper Slingsby³, Anabelle Cardoso¹, Phil Brodrick⁴

1: University at Buffalo, United States of America; 2: University of California, Merced, United States of America; 3: University of Cape Town, South Africa; 4: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States of America

Modelling savanna vegetation structure using Synthetic Aperture Radar and spaceborne lidar: A case study in Kruger National Park, South Africa

Marco Wolsza¹, Sandra MacFadyen^2,3, Jussi Baade⁴, Tercia Strydom⁵, Christiane Schmullius¹

1: Department for Earth Observation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07737 Jena, Germany; 2: Mathematical Biosciences Lab, Stellenbosch University, 7600 Stellenbosch, South Africa; 3: National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS), 7600, Stellenbosch, South Africa; 4: Department of Geography, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07737 Jena, Germany; 5: Scientific Services, South African National Parks (SANParks), Private Bag X402, 1350 Skukuza, South Africa

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

Andres Camilo Zuñiga-Gonzalez², Josh Millar¹, Sarab Sethi¹, Hamed Haddadi¹, Michael Dales², Anil Madhavapeddy², Ronita Bardhan²

1: Imperial College London; 2: University of Cambridge

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