Description du projet
De nouveaux outils pour faire face aux menaces planant sur la biodiversité
Le changement climatique, la pollution, l’exploitation des ressources naturelles et les changements au niveau de l’utilisation des sols sont autant de menaces mondiales qui planent sur la biodiversité et les écosystèmes. La quantification de leur impact n’est toutefois pas une mince affaire. Il importe d’assurer une surveillance rapide, fiable et reproductible des données sur la biodiversité à toutes les échelles, de l’échelon local au niveau mondial. Dans ce contexte, le projet B3, financé par l’UE, simplifiera et normalisera l’accès aux données sur la biodiversité en utilisant le cadre des variables essentielles de biodiversité. Globalement, le projet vise à faciliter l’accès aux outils dans un environnement informatique cloud, en temps réel et à la demande. B3 ouvrira la voie à un avenir dans lequel les données primaires sur la biodiversité seront intégrées harmonieusement à la surveillance et aux prévisions. Les responsables politiques et gestionnaires pourront ainsi répondre de manière proactive aux problèmes.
Objectif
The world is changing rapidly; climate change, land use change, pollution and natural resource exploitation are creating a global crisis for biodiversity whose magnitude and dynamics are hard to quantify. Decision makers at all levels need uptodate information from which to evaluate policy options. For this reason rapid, reliable, repeatable monitoring of biodiversity data is needed at all scales from local to global. Only by leveraging large volumes of data, advanced modelling techniques and powerful computing tools can we hope to synthesize these data within timescales that are relevant to policy.
Data on biodiversity come from a diverse range of sources, citizen scientists, museums, herbaria and researchers are all major contributors, but increasingly new technologies are being deployed, such as automatic sensors, camera traps, eDNA and satellite tracking. Integrating these data is a major challenge, but is necessary if we are to create dependable information on biodiversity change. B3 will use the concept of data cubes to simplify and standardize access to biodiversity data using the Essential Biodiversity Variables framework. These cubes will be used, in conjunction with other environmental data and scenarios, as the basis for models and indicators of past, current and future biodiversity.
The overarching goal of the project is to provide easy access to tools in a cloud computing environment, in real-time and on-demand, with state of the art prediction models of biodiversity, that will output models and indicators of biodiversity status and change. The project envisages a future where primary biodiversity data are seamlessly integrated into monitoring and forecasting such that policy and management can proactively respond to problems while at the same time reduce the costs of monitoring and management, and the negative impacts of biodiversity change.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsoptical sensors
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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Régime de financement
IA - Innovation actionCoordinateur
1860 Meise
Belgique