Connecting Earth observation to high-throughput biodiversity data

Earth Observation for Habitat and Biodiversity Monitoring

The special workshop “Earth observation for ecosystem and biodiversity monitoring – best practices in Europe and globally, at GI_Forum 2013, focused on the outcomes of the EUfunded projects MS.MONINA and BIO_SOS and related activities that highlight the potential of Earth observation data and technologies in support of biodiversity and ecosystem monitoring. In Europe, nature conservation rests ...

Earth observation for habitat mapping and biodiversity monitoring

Biodiversity – the variety of life forms and our “natural capital nd life-insurance” (European Commission, 2011) – is on decline Isbell, 2010; Trochet and Schmeller, 2013), with consequences on cosystem function and stability, and ultimately human well-being Naeem et al., 2009). Since 1992, the International Convention on iological Diversity, short CBD, has bundled the United Nations’ oint effo...

An environmental domain classification of Canada using earth observation data for biodiversity assessment

Optical Data Downlinks from Earth Observation Platforms

The increasing resolution of earth observation sensors will require much higher data rates for the data downlink in future than is feasible with conventional RF-technology. This applies for earth observation satellites as well as for aeronautic observation platforms, such as aircraft or stratospheric high altitude platforms. The most promising solution for this data downlink bottleneck is the a...

Earth Observation Data Processing in Distributed Systems

Earth observation systems have a continuous growth in the user and internal requirements that can be handled nowadays only using distributed systems. These requirements are shortly reviewed in this paper. Huge data-sets management and processing are of special interest, as well as the particularities of the Earth observation data. On the technological side, the focus is put on service-oriented ...