Conference Agenda

Leveraging EO data for biodiversity monitoring and reporting with BON in a Box

Jory Griffith¹, Jean-Michel Lord¹, Guillaume Larocque²

1: GEO BON and McGill University; 2: Québec Centre for Biodiversity Science, Biodiversité Québec, and McGill University

The Global Ecosystems Atlas: An Interactive Experience

David Patterson

GEO secretariat, IGO

Monitoring Biodiversity with Ecosystem Accounting

Bruno Smets¹, Caterina Gilli², Alessio Bulckaen², Ferdinando Villa², Lars Hein³, Marcel Buchhorn¹

1: VITO, Belgium; 2: Basque Center for Climate Change, Spain; 3: Wageningen University, Netherlands

Harnessing analysis tools for biodiversity applications using field, airborne, and orbital remote sensing data from NASA's BioSCAPE campaign

Michele Thornton¹, Rupesh Shrestha¹, Erin Hestir², Adam Wilson³, Jasper Slingsby⁴, Anabelle Cardoso^3,4

1: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center; 2: University of California, Merced; 3: University at Buffalo; 4: University of Cape Town

GBIF: Effective use of GBIF-mediated data

Andrew Rodrigues

Data Partnerships Officer, GBIF Secretariat, Copenhagen Denmark

Challenges and opportunities for monitoring grassland and savannah conservation at global and continental scales

Geoff Smith¹, Bruno Combal², Karl Ruf³, Sergio Bolívar Santamaría⁴, Adriana Martin Ramirez⁴, Michelle Chevelev-Bonatti⁴, Stefan Sieber⁴, Leonie Meier⁵

1: Specto Natura Ltd., United Kingdom; 2: DG Environment, European Commission; 3: space4environment sàrl; 4: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research – ZALF; 5: World Wide Fund for Nature – WWF International

Understanding 3D Structural Signature of Biodiversity Traits in Dry Forests

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

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

Biodiversity data cubes

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

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

Increasing Space Agency Impact on Biodiversity Conservation

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

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