Earth Observation to monitor land and water ecosystems

Convenors: Michael Nones and Melissa Latella

Earth Observation (EO) provides massive amounts of data about land and water surfaces, leading to a paradigm shift in observing and measuring ecosystem dynamics across multiple spatiotemporal scales.

This special session will focus on recent advances in EO for the monitoring of land and water ecosystems, offering a short overview of the state-of-the-art, addressing current challenges, and discussing future developments. We invite abstracts that deal with this topic from different perspectives, including but not limited to: EO integration with in-situ measurements, generation of new monitoring service, use of new sensors, knowledge disclosed by EO-based monitoring, use of EO data for numerical modelling, and impacts on policy and management.