Conference Agenda

Monitoring progress towards policy goals such as the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework requires large-scale coordination of effort to assess the current state of biodiversity and track change. Current monitoring efforts and tools are developed by individual actors without being shared across organizations and borders, which can lead to the duplication of effort in some places while others have less resources to allocate to biodiversity monitoring and reporting. BON in a Box, developed by the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), is an open, transparent and collaborative analysis sharing platform that addresses this challenge. BON in a Box contains a modelling tool that connects analysis workflows contributed by the scientific community into automated pipelines that can be run locally or on the cloud. Currently, BON in a Box has a number of functional pipelines to calculate Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) and indicators using a variety of data sources, including STAC catalogs such as the Planetary Computer. Pipelines using earth observation data to calculate EBVs and indicators are in development, as well as integrations with satellite processing platforms such as openEO.

This demonstration will give a brief overview of BON in a Box and walk through examples of how to use the tool to run an analysis, including an example of how to use BON in a Box to calculate EBVs and indicators using Earth observation data. Participants will be organized into breakout groups to explore how Earth observation data can be further utilized for monitoring biodiversity within BON in a Box, identify priority analyses, and provide opportunities for open question sessions throughout the event