Review and improve list of relevant space-borne variables, to include marine systems as well on top of terrestrial applications. Hold joint sessions with biodiversity/conservation community at international conferences (e.g., International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment. [ISRSE]). Coordinate different biodiversity/conservation initiatives related to EO (Cambridge Conservation Initiative [CCI], CRSnet, GEO BON). List of future needed parameters.
The Essential Biodiversity Variable community continues to make progress. GEO BON has released an EBV development strategy that includes remote sensing EBVs.? The remote sensing EBV community held a biodiversity remote sensing session at the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment and the International Congress for Conservation Biology, both of which had talks and discussions on remote sensing EBVs.? Several sessions are organized for the upcoming ESA Living Planet Symposium, as well as at a conservation remote sensing symposium at the Zoological Society of London. Moreover, several workshops are currently planned to discuss RS-EBVs further in collaboration with GEO BON.