Making Earth Observation and Monitoring Data usable for ecosystem modelling and services

Specific challenge: Maximum benefit should be made of the investments made in Earth Observation data and information when developing terrestrial and marine ecosystem models and sustainable ecosystem services, in order to deliver major benefits to citizens, businesses and governments. To achieve this, there is a need to develop innovative solutions that will provide open and unrestricted access to interoperable ecosystem Earth Observation data and information. This demanding task is rendered more difficult by the still fragmented and limited ability to collect, store, integrate, analyse and share the required Earth Observations. Overcoming this challenge will contribute to assessing the status of our planet's biodiversity and developing sustainable ecosystem services and natural capital. 

Scope: Proposals should focus on recovering existing data, supporting new measurements and observations, synthesis and interpretation of data for making all information and knowledge available to scie