Consult with biodiversity community representatives (GEO BON, CBD, Conservation Remote Sensing Network [CRSnet], etc.) to better define relevant spaceborne parameters (e.g., for EBVs).
On May 27-28, the second Remote Sensing for Essential Biodivesity Variables (RS4EBV) Workshop took place in Frascati, Italy at ESA ESRIN. ?The workshop goal was to develop a draft list of biodiversity and ecosystem services variables that could be tracked with satellite remote sensing--essentially remotely-sensed EBVs. ?These variables should also address some of the Convention on Biological Diversity's Aichi 2020 Targets. ?The workshop resulted in a comment piece in the journal Nature on July 23, 2015 (523:403-405). ?The Nature article proposes 10 draft varables for consideration: species occurrence, plant traits (e.g., specific leaf area, leaf N content), ecosystem distribution, fragmentation and heterogeneity, land cover, vegetation height, fire occurrence, vegetation phenology, primary productivity and leaf area index, and inundation. ?The next step will be for GEO BON to vet these suggested variables with the wider biodiversity community and then have GEO deliver them to CEOS as suggested variables for monitoring. ?In conjunction with this delivery, CEOS may wish to form an Ad Hoc Team for Biodiversity. ?
Formerly CEOS Action # BI-01-C1_2