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Are you in Cali for #COP16Colombia? Want to know what #KMGBF Targets 1-12 ALL have in common? Join us for our side event “Putting Biodiversity-Inclusive Spatial Planning on the Map” with the IUCN Issues Report on Spatial Planning TODAY, Tuesday October 22 @ 4:45 in the GEO Pavilion to: 🌍Travel the world from Colombia to Mozambique and South Africa to Tanzania to explore national approaches to biodiversity-inclusive #spatialplanning and their impacts on the ground. 🌍Explore free, open access tools that make these approaches available to all Parties to support their work around Targets 1, 2, and 3, with powerful co-benefits for Targets 4-12. 🌍Launch new guidances from DEFRA, FAO, and the IUCN Taskforce for Target 1 that explore what biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning means in practice and highlight case studies. 🌍Promote discussion and peer-to-peer exchange across Parties to highlight national resources and needs for use of spatial data and planning tools to support action on the #KMGBF.  Learn more & join us this Tuesday 👉 https://lnkd.in/eYxz8YMk

Empowering Coastal Observations 🌊 : SMHI’s Century-Long Expertise in Marine Environmental Monitoring With over a century’s experience in marine environmental monitoring, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) offers an array of Virtual Access (VA) Services rooted in deep knowledge of data collection, management, and presentation. Their services include: ·        SHARKweb & SHARK API: These platforms provide delayed mode data, predominantly covering national environmental monitoring data. These are reliable reservoirs of historical and past short-term data. ·        Open data website, OpendataView, and Opendata API: These services offer real-time or near real-time oceanographic and marine biological data, providing immediate insights into the current state of our oceans. SMHI’s marine environmental monitoring encompasses everything from sampling to knowledge dissemination. It undertakes national marine environmental monitoring tasks, processing and analysing data to communicate the ocean status to a diverse audience, ensuring this data is quality-controlled, processed, summarised, archived, and available to an international audience. Their main stakeholders include other governmental agencies, county administrative boards, municipalities, researchers, and the broader public with an interest in marine environmental status. In alignment with the broader objectives of JERICO-RI European Infrastructure and coastal observation, their services play a pivotal role in fostering cohesive European marine observations. By offering both delayed mode and real-time data, they ensure comprehensive temporal coverage of the marine environment. This dual approach provides stakeholders with historical context and immediate insights, aiding in robust decision-making processes, research undertakings, and policy formulations that champion sustainable coastal and marine ecosystems. With the funding and support received from JERICO-RI European Infrastructure, their services have undergone significant enhancements. The integration capacities of SHARK platforms have been improved, and the real-time data provision through their open data services has been streamlined and expanded. These modifications have not only increased the breadth and depth of data available but also enhanced the user experience, ensuring that stakeholders have immediate and seamless access to vital marine data. Read more about this topic here https://lnkd.in/dNBPJkxE   JERICO-RI European Infrastructure #JERICO_S3 #JERICO_VA #ResearchInfrastructure #CoastalObservatory #opendata #SHARKweb #SHARKAPI SMHI

News from our colleagues European Marine Board IVZW (EMB): Future Science Brief on Marine habitat mapping out now! 🗺 Accurate and extensive marine habitat maps are fundamental to support a wide variety of marine policies and ambitions including the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive and policies to deliver the ambitious plans of the European Green Deal. However, large areas remain unmapped, and current maps predominantly focus on physical aspects of marine habitats and lack sufficient biological resolution, such as species and communities. 🛰 Higher resolution maps are needed to better represent the linkages between the seabed and water column in three-dimensions and to enable an ecosystem approach that considers the marine environment in the “fourth dimension” of time. EMB Future Science Brief No. 11 ‘Marine habitat mapping’ presents science and policy needs and recommendations to advance next-generation marine habitat mapping. 🚢 This document highlights current methods and future trends in the acquisition of data from the seabed and water column via remote sensing and direct, in situ techniques. It discusses combining data to produce maps using modelling approaches and presents recommendations for adopting fit-for-purpose habitat classification schemes. It also provides an overview of what has been mapped and where within the European sea-basins, highlights the need to increase the quality and resolution of marine habitat maps. It identifies critical gaps in habitat types and geographic extent, including the coastal areas, the deep sea, Natura 2000 sites and other Marine Protected Areas across all regional seas. Finally, it describes the need to improve the assessment and communication of uncertainty and confidence in maps, and to make maps more easily accessible to a variety of stakeholders to increase their value for end-users and to the public for Ocean literacy. You can find info about the document, the factsheet, the working group and more on the EMB-page below 👇 https://lnkd.in/eNp527-7

The European Marine Board IVZW, an OceanDecade Implementing Partner, has just released a new brief on marine habitat mapping that aims to inform policymakers, programme managers, research funders and the wider science-policy and scientific communities in the advancement of next-generation marine habitat mapping efforts. In this brief, you'll find the latest insights on: 1. the crucial role of accurate and extensive marine habitat maps for achieving European and international goals for biodiversity, conservation, restoration and climate action. 2. the science and policy needs to advance our understanding and documentation of marine habitats, from increasing the resolution of biological information to strengthening coordination mechanisms for interdisciplinary mapping efforts to fill critical gaps.

Itacimirim - Bahia - Brazil Another geospatial study developed in partnership with Coletivo Preserve Itacimirim. In this analysis, we used the vegetation index calculated from Sentinel-2 satellite surface reflectance data to extract information regarding vegetation suppression between 2020 and 2024. Another practical application of how the use of advanced technologies can be very useful in environmental monitoring. In green, we can see regions with high NDVI values, indicating the presence of vegetation, while red and yellow tones indicate negative or near-zero NDVI values, indicating the absence of vegetation. By comparing the maps from 2020 and 2024, we can easily identify areas of vegetation suppression. #remotesensing #orbitaldata #sentinel #environmentalmonitoring

🚨 New Vegetation Water Content product for Brazilian open ecosystems! 🚨 In a recently published study, Paulo Bernardino, ben somers, Koenraad Van Meerbeek and colleagues calibrated and validated a vegetation water content (VWC) product, derived from Sentinel-1 SAR data, with field data from 82 plots revisited in four different seasons. This was the first time that a Sentinel-1 VWC product was validated using field data for such complex natural ecosystems (savannas, wet grasslands, and dry grasslands). The product is freely available (link below) for the Chapada dos Veadeiros, Central Brazil, from April 2015 to September 2023, at a 30 m spatial resolution. https://lnkd.in/eDQFhgCN

Land Trusts and other conservation non-profits are critical partners to local, state and federal agencies. So shouldn't they be equipped with the same world-class geospatial infrastructure that governments use? That's why it's exciting to see this solution, built on ArcGIS, to serve the land trust community's holistic workflows - from land, project and volunteer management, to stewardship and reporting, the BackOffice Thinking "LOCATE" solution brings it all together... spatially. #landtrust #conservation #planning #management #stewardship #collaboration #ArcGIS #Esri

I'm excited to share my article published on the Esri (Environmental Systems Research Institute) blog, where I recount my journey into the fascinating world of seafloor mapping. 👉 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gtxUsJX3 #hydrography #seafloormapping

"Gulf of Mexico Data Atlas The Gulf of Mexico Data Atlas is a map collection of the long-term physical, biological, environmental, economic, and living marine resource data that define the baseline conditions of Gulf of Mexico ecosystems. Descriptions of each map topic, written by subject matter experts, explain how the data were gathered and how they affect Gulf of Mexico communities... The study area encompasses Gulf of Mexico coastal counties of the USA, as defined by the Federal Coastal Zone Management Act, and Mexican municipal districts bordering on Gulf of Mexico waters. The seaward boundaries of the study area extend to the Yucatan Channel and the Straits of Florida. Instructions Data have been broken down into 6 categories: physical, biotic, living marine resources, socioeconomic conditions, environmental quality, and jurisdictions. By clicking on one of these categories along the top of the map, you can access topics listed within a dropdown menu. Clicking on one of these topics allows you to access data relevant to that topic. Click on one of these datasets to cause the map to refresh with the selected data displayed and details about the data itself available in this window..." #GulfOfMexico #atlas #NOAA #physical #biotic #livingmarineresources #socioeconomicconditions #environmentalquality #jurisdictions https://lnkd.in/gQb_3mkQ

New mapping method developed for critical marine habitat - The University of Western Australia: Researchers at The University of Western Australia have led the development of a new technique for accurately mapping shallow and coastal marine habitats. https://lnkd.in/erZVrvgg