COBWEB: helping to map vegetation - work with Aberystwyth University - Crona Hodges
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Dr Cróna Hodges
Research Officer
Earth Observation Group, Aberystwyth University
Y Plas, Machynlleth
20th May 2014
http://cobwebproject.eu/
COBWEB: Helping to map vegetationWork with Aberystwyth University
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Presentation Outline
• Existing work
– Earth Observation
– Land Cover and Habitat Mapping?
• How COBWEB can help
• Going forward - what we can give back
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Earth Observation
© iStockphoto (2014)
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Vegetation and Land Cover: Why does it matter?
• Important at every scale
– Global: Understanding global agricultural
resource, forest extent, distribution of sensitive
habitat types, understanding climate change…
– Regional: Mapping that informs policy for sensitive
habitat management, monitoring biodiversity,
understanding how vegetation changes…
– Local: Protecting sensitive species, conservation
management, our impact on the local
environment…
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Global land cover products
• Include ‘GLC Share’ launched recently
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Regional land cover products
• Europe-wide and national datasets
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Local Vegetation and Land Cover Research
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How COBWEB can help
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How COBWEB can help
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How COBWEB can help
• In the field we need to know:
– Our location,
– Basemapping,
– Information about what we are
looking at, and
– Photographs to support our field
notes (preferably).
• Mobile apps can be a valuable
data collection tool
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Going forward - What we can give back
• Data that COBWEB can work with to meet
data quality and data management objectives
• Data that will be of interest to other academics
and stakeholders
• Field observations – descriptions/data about
vegetation and habitat type
• Geotagged photographs of vegetation and
habitat types
• …