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Flexible habitat mapping for biodiversity and ecosystem management
  • Biodiversity,
  • ecosystem,
  • Natural Capital Accounting,
  • Habitat Mapping

Flexible habitat mapping for biodiversity and ecosystem management

By Lori Giagnacovo 17.07.2024

With the recent implementation of the Nature Restoration Law and the ongoing UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, accurate habitat mapping has never been..

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New INCA tool to support ecosystem accounting in Europe
  • Biodiversity,
  • ecosystem,
  • NCA,
  • Natural Capital Accounting,
  • Ecosystem services,
  • INCA

New INCA tool to support ecosystem accounting in Europe

By Bruno Smets 17.05.2023

Ecosystem Accounts measure the stock and its changes of our natural capital and the services it provides to the society and our economy. Ecosystem..

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WorldCover taking it to the next level
  • Biodiversity,
  • Sentinel,
  • land cover,
  • global land cover,
  • worldcover

WorldCover taking it to the next level

By Ruben Van De Kerchove 28.10.2022
One year after the release of the WorldCover 2020 map, i.e. the first global land cover product at 10 m resolution based on both Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2..
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Habitat mapping with AI to preserve Europe's natural capital
  • Biodiversity,
  • EO Data,
  • AI,
  • land cover,
  • Natural Capital Accounting

Habitat mapping with AI to preserve Europe's natural capital

By Bruno Smets 17.10.2022
Habitat Mapping is a key tool to assess progress towards the European Biodiversity 2030 targets as well as the global Aichi targets and more particular..
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Transition to a sustainable planet through Natural Capital Accounting
  • Biodiversity,
  • SDG's,
  • Geospatial,
  • Natural Capital Accounting,
  • Ecosystem services

Transition to a sustainable planet through Natural Capital Accounting

By Bruno Smets 16.01.2022
Our economy and our human well-being highly depend on nature and its “services”. Longley, we underestimated these services, but the recent COVID-19..
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Release of the 10 m WorldCover map
  • Land use,
  • Biodiversity,
  • Sentinel,
  • global land cover,
  • worldcover

Release of the 10 m WorldCover map

By Ruben Van De Kerchove 20.10.2021
In 2019 we kicked-off ESA’s WorldCover project. An ambitious project set up to develop a new global land cover map at 10 m resolution to provide valuable..
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Towards a global land cover map at 10 m resolution
  • Land use,
  • Agriculture,
  • Biodiversity,
  • Sentinel,
  • global land cover,
  • worldcover

Towards a global land cover map at 10 m resolution

By Ruben Van De Kerchove 22.04.2021
The goal of ESA’s WorldCover project was clear! Develop a new global land cover map at 10 m resolution in less than 2 years to provide valuable..
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Large scale mapping for biodiversity monitoring
  • Biodiversity,
  • Sentinel-2,
  • global land cover,
  • vegetation,
  • GlobDiversity

Large scale mapping for biodiversity monitoring

By Ruben Van De Kerchove 09.02.2021

Last year, the European Space Agency finalized the GlobDiversity project, the first large-scale effort set up to develop and engineer remote sensing-based..

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Natural Capital Accounting to protect ecosystem services
  • Biodiversity,
  • SDG's,
  • ecosystem,
  • Natural Capital Accounting

Natural Capital Accounting to protect ecosystem services

By Bruno Smets 18.11.2019

Economic progress has been measured via Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for decades. However, most environmental elements are not recorded in these public or..

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When aliens are coming!
  • Climate,
  • Land use,
  • Biodiversity,
  • DIARS

When aliens are coming!

By Ruben Van De Kerchove 21.08.2018

Invasive Alien Species (IAS) are one of the most important drivers of biodiversity loss. Either introduced deliberately (e.g. through fish farming or..

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Understanding Landscapes: the case of Voeren
  • Remote Sensing,
  • Agriculture,
  • Biodiversity,
  • Image Processing

Understanding Landscapes: the case of Voeren

By Anne Gobin 10.01.2018

Landscapes evolve and the drivers behind the changes relate socio-economic activities to their bio-physical environment. Regions that have international..

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Mangroves & remote sensing – a perfect match!
  • Land use,
  • Biodiversity,
  • Image Processing,
  • EO Data

Mangroves & remote sensing – a perfect match!

By Ruben Van De Kerchove 09.10.2017

Mangroves are somewhat strange, exotic ecosystems, but they are crucial to our planet. Monitoring mangroves is therefore essential in understanding..

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Africa mapped in unprecedented detail
  • Time series,
  • Data harmonisation,
  • Land use,
  • Biodiversity

Africa mapped in unprecedented detail

By Bruno Smets 21.09.2017
Land is an essential natural resource for humanity and all terrestrial ecosystems, but human demands exceed available resources. This leads to..
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Remote Sensing for Water & Coast
  • Water & coast,
  • Biodiversity,
  • dredging,
  • EO Data

Remote Sensing for Water & Coast

By Liesbeth De Keukelaere 27.04.2017

With more than 70 % of our Earth covered by water and nearly half of our global population living near the coast, the importance of water on Earth cannot..

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MultiTemp 2017: prepare to meet in Bruges
  • Time series,
  • Data harmonisation,
  • Remote Sensing,
  • Climate,
  • Agriculture,
  • Biodiversity,
  • Event,
  • Multitemporal image analysis

MultiTemp 2017: prepare to meet in Bruges

By Bart Deronde 01.03.2017
It’s time for the bi-annual MultiTemp conference. We will be gathering for the 9th edition in Bruges, Belgium, from the 27th to the 29th of June this..
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