the agenda of the conference “Space – the final frontier for biodiversity monitoring” at ZSL in London is now finalised and all talks are listed.
Space – the final frontier for biodiversity monitoring?
29 April 2016, ZSL, London
8.30 REGISTRATION OPENS
9.00 Welcome
Nathalie Pettorelli, Zoological Society of London, UK
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SESSION 1: Monitoring biodiversity globally: challenges and opportunities
Chair: Nathalie Pettorelli
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9.15 Global biodiversity monitoring: challenges, status, and paths forward
Gary Geller, Group on Earth Observations, & GEO BON, Switzerland
9.45 Moving remote sensing towards application
Martin Wegmann, University of Würzburg, Germany
10.15 Citizen science meets satellite remote sensing: opportunities for biodiversity
Doreen Boyd, University of Nottingham
10.45 POSTER SESSION (TEA/COFFEE)
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SESSION 2: From theory to applications: satellite remote sensing in the real world
Chair: Lucas Joppa
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11.15 Mapping and monitoring High Nature Value farmland in the UK using satellite data
Emma Tebbs, King’s College London, UK
11.45 Biodiversity from space: pitfalls in measuring community diversity from outside the Earth
Duccio Rocchini, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy
12.15 New ways of looking at old forests: detecting ecosystem change using 3D measurements and models
Mathias Disney, University College London, UK
12.45 LUNCH
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SESSION 3: Unveiling what the future holds for satellite remote sensing and biodiversity monitoring
Chair: Doreen Boyd
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14.00 Monitoring global threats to biodiversity
Lucas Joppa, Microsoft Research, USA
14.30 Introducing the concept of Satellite Remote Sensing EBVs
Nathalie Pettorelli, Zoological Society of London, UK
15.00 Satellite Remote Sensing & the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems
Emily Nicholson, Deakin University, Australia
15.30 Ocean remote sensing for modelling and monitoring marine biodiversity
Shovonlal Roy, University of Reading
16.00 POSTER SESSION (TEA/COFFEE)
16.30 Scientific writing workshop
17.30 Cash bar and poster prize
the registration is open and more details can be found here: https://www.zsl.org/science/whats-on/space-the-final-frontier-for-biodiversity-monitoring
