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Space4Restoration
About Space4Restoration
Region: Multiple case study sites worldwide (now Netherlands and Lebanon more to come)
Description: The worldwide restoration of degraded ecosystems is crucial to halt biodiversity loss and to mitigate the effect of global climate change. The effective restoration of degraded terrestrial, inland water, and marine and coastal ecosystems was included as one of the global targets for 2030 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, is a key component of the new EU’s Nature Restoration Law, and is the core of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration that started in 2021.
Restoration initiatives across the globe are aiming to improve the state of nature, and simultaneously provide nature’s crucial benefits to people. Credible and meaningful monitoring and evaluation of these efforts is needed to learn from past and ongoing initiatives, and to make wiser decisions for new restoration actions. The Space4Restoration project aims to design, test and finetune scalable online earth observation-based methods to monitor and evaluate restoration actions across biomes. In this project, we build on the work pioneered by ITC and in very close collaboration with organisations working on international restoration standards, and practitioners for test sites and user perspectives.
As underlying method, Space4Restoration uses counterfactual analyses (“What would have happened if the intervention hadn’t taken place?”) to assess the effectiveness of restoration interventions. We base these analyses on datasets provided by restoration practitioners, complemented by free and open satellite earth observation datasets (e.g., Sentinel-1 and 2, Landsat), and other spatial data such as weather, soil, topography maps. Space4Restoration embraces Open Science and all developed software tools will be shared under a permissive license through the project’s code sharing GitHub page (see https://github.com/Space4Restoration)
Partners: Lebanon Restoration Initiative, Natuurmonumenten
Sponsor: ITC Ingenuity
Region: Multiple case study sites worldwide (now Netherlands and Lebanon more to come)
Description: The worldwide restoration of degraded ecosystems is crucial to halt biodiversity loss and to mitigate the effect of global climate change. The effective restoration of degraded terrestrial, inland water, and marine and coastal ecosystems was included as one of the global targets for 2030 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, is a key component of the new EU’s Nature Restoration Law, and is the core of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration that started in 2021.
Restoration initiatives across the globe are aiming to improve the state of nature, and simultaneously provide nature’s crucial benefits to people. Credible and meaningful monitoring and evaluation of these efforts is needed to learn from past and ongoing initiatives, and to make wiser decisions for new restoration actions. The Space4Restoration project aims to design, test and finetune scalable online earth observation-based methods to monitor and evaluate restoration actions across biomes. In this project, we build on the work pioneered by ITC and in very close collaboration with organisations working on international restoration standards, and practitioners for test sites and user perspectives.
As underlying method, Space4Restoration uses counterfactual analyses (“What would have happened if the intervention hadn’t taken place?”) to assess the effectiveness of restoration interventions. We base these analyses on datasets provided by restoration practitioners, complemented by free and open satellite earth observation datasets (e.g., Sentinel-1 and 2, Landsat), and other spatial data such as weather, soil, topography maps. Space4Restoration embraces Open Science and all developed software tools will be shared under a permissive license through the project’s code sharing GitHub page (see https://github.com/Space4Restoration)
Partners: Lebanon Restoration Initiative, Natuurmonumenten
Sponsor: ITC Ingenuity
ITC-LIFE | Resource Security
BIOSPACE
The BIOSPACE project aims to monitor biodiversity by upscaling field observations and genomic (eDNA) information using next-generation satellite remote sensing
Partners: Wageningen University, Macquarie University, Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald, SYKE, Stichting Het Nationale Park de Hoge Veluwe, Natuurmonumenten
Partners: Wageningen University, Macquarie University, Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald, SYKE, Stichting Het Nationale Park de Hoge Veluwe, Natuurmonumenten
ITC-LIFE | Geospatial AI | Resource Security