In this November 2018 issue of our GlobDiversity newsletter you will find out about the latest events and news from the project and a profile of our wetland pilot sites. In addition we present the first results from our RS-enabled EBV, Land Surface Phenology, and provide a summary of phase 1 of the project. You can find previous issues of our newsletter here. !
From the 7th to the 9th of February, 2018 a group of international experts discussed definitions and specifications of the four studied RS-enabled EBVs at the University of Zurich !
The abstracts for the 32 funded NASA GEO projects are now available. !
The GlobDiversity project brochure has been launched!
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In this December 2017 issue of our GlobDiversity newsletter you will find summary information about the EBVs that the project is engineering from satellite remote sensing observations, the latest events and news from the project and a profile of one of our featured biomes – the Arctic Tundra. !
NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the European Commission (EC) are now funding several remote sensing research projects in support of the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON). !
An information note on RS-enabled EBVs has been submitted to the twenty-first meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) of the CBD, taking place in Montreal in December 2017.
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Invitation to submit biodiversity related papers to a regular IGARSS 2018 session
The IGARSS 2018 conference will be held in Valencia Spain from 22 Jul – 27 Jul 2018. !
An expert workshop for prioritization and selection of remote sensing based Essential Biodiversity Variables (RS-enabled EBVs) took place on 7-8 September in Enschede, The Netherlands. Continued