Objective
NATURA 2000, an endeavour in the spirit of the Convention of Biological Diversity (Rio, 1992), is one of the success stories among pan-European initiatives and one of the world‘s most effective legal instruments concerning biodiversity and nature conservation.
The EU Habitats Directive (council directive 92/43/ECC) requires a standardised monitoring of the habitat types and a reporting every six years. For this reason, an operational, objective, economically priced and as far as possible automated application is required. The rapidly developing remote sensing sensor technique and also new image processing methods offer new possibilities to apply remote sensing data for NATURA 2000 monitoring. Today, with (i) GMES as an umbrella for utilizing latest EO-based achievements form both space- and in-situ sensors to provide European solutions for global problems of the environment-security-nexus, (ii) INSPIRE as a pan-European endeavor of obeying standards and other prerequisites of interoperable use, and (iii) the vision of a unified and integrated (i.e. single) European Information Space (SEIS), set the stage for a technologically mature, integrated, and user-centric system, more effectively to be used than ever. Users are in need, as imposed by the legally binding character of the directives, and this is what this project will service, from European to local scale.
MS.MONINA follows a pan-European, multi-scale approach that on the one hand reflects the specifics and the variety of habitats in the different biogeographical regions, and on the other hand guides the specifications of the service chains and their implementations as service cases and pilots. The multi-scale (MS) concept reflects the fact that on different (administrative) levels there are specific requirements for sensitive sites-related reporting, monitoring, management etc.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
FP7-SPACE-2010-1
See other projects for this call
Funding Scheme
CP - Collaborative project (generic)Coordinator
5020 Salzburg
Austria
See on map
Participants (17)
08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
See on map
92761 ANTONY CEDEX
See on map
1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
See on map
48145 Munster
See on map
2400 Mol
See on map
11810 Athina
See on map
39100 Bolzano
See on map
53113 Bonn
See on map
02 679 WARSZAWA
See on map
10623 Berlin
See on map
5020 SALZBURG
See on map
CB24 9PL CAMBRIDGE
See on map
14562 ATHINA
See on map
14469 Potsdam
See on map
24220 Flintbek
See on map
34000 MONTPELLIER
See on map
29016 Malaga
See on map