Project description
Multi-sensor Earth observation data for biodiversity changes monitoring
Biodiversity change poses a significant challenge to our societies. It is crucial to use advanced methods for monitoring terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems to inform actionable measures. The EU-funded OBSGESSION project aims to monitor and predict changes in biodiversity as well as explore the factors influencing these changes in both land and freshwater ecosystems. The project will integrate the latest Earth observation data from multiple sensors, incorporating innovative in situ data, including contributions from citizen science, and various products. OBSGESSION will also leverage next-generation ecological models that account for uncertainty. The project’s goals include advancing data integration, estimating uncertainties, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, adhering to FAIR and open science practices, and promoting the sharing of research outputs.
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The objective and key ambition of OBSGESSION is to monitor and predict biodiversity change and its direct and indirect drivers in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems through the integration of state-of-the-art multi-sensor Earth Observation (EO) data, innovative in-situ (including citizen science) data, and products, together with next-generation ecological models that account for uncertainty. This aim goes well beyond the current state-of-the-art in combining the various data sources, modern modelling and uncertainty estimation. The methodological principles include firm anchoring into science and policy needs, true interdisciplinarity between terrestrial and freshwater as well as EO and ecosystem modelling disciplines, and FAIR and open science practices, including sharing of research outputs with both the scientific community and the civil society, to study how biodiversity across terrestrial and freshwater domains is changing and the processes and needed innovations leading to efficient science-based solutions towards observation of ecosystem changes for action.
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
00790 Helsinki
Finland