Improving Future Ecosystem Benefits through Earth Observations

Healthy ecosystems provide essential goods and services to human societies and are of crucial importance for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Recent advances in Earth Observation data (Remote Sensing and in situ measurements) offer new opportunities to monitor the state of and changes in ecosystem functions, processes and services, and the pressures they face.

ECOPOTENTIAL focused its activities and pilot actions on a targeted set of internationally recognized Protected Areas in Europe and beyond, including mountain, arid and semi- arid, and coastal and marine ecosystems. The project delivered products of Earth Observation data to better understand and monitor changes to ecosystems and support the effective management of these Protected Areas.

GRID-Arendal played an important role in communicating the project and its results, as well as encouraging dialogue and interaction, between the project and European policy makers, protected area managers and the general public. We worked on a variety of different products, including a photography exhibition, storymaps explaining innovative approaches that ECOPOTENTIAL used in earth observation, and encouraged further interaction between Protected Areas managers and scientists through interactive workshops.

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