Valorising long-term ecosystem research sites and associated in-situ data

• Environmental, biodiversity, pollution
• Meteo & climate
• Education, training & research
• ICT, digital interfaces
• Local & regional planning

Main users of the services provided by the mySite pilot are researchers, site and protected area managers as well as the wider public. The main user is characterised by the need to access information on long-term observations collected on dedicated areas. These are either long-term observation facilities or protected areas. This is reflected either by the research community applying scientific analysis for the given areas or protected area managers informing about the status of areas of interest in order to perform daily management.

DEIMS-SDR is a web-catalogue for long-term observation facilities and data and as service adopted by the eLTER network and operated and maintained by the Umweltbundesamt GmbH (Austria). EcoSense is webGIS to visualise spatial and time-series information and as service adopted by the eLTER network and operated and maintained by the BioSense Institute (Serbia)

Park biologist Ramona Viterbi (GPNP) said: “Remote sensing observations provide coherent information on the state of the environment in the Gran Paradiso National Park, including snow cover, surface temperature, biological variables (GPP and others). RS observations also allow for upscaling of in-situ measurements, such as those provided by the field stations measuring carbon and water fluxes in the soil-vegetation-atmosphere system and providing information on the health state of Alpine grassland.  In addition, remote sensing products directly supported the monitoring of fauna and habitat, providing frequent and detailed surveys that are useful for park management. Indirectly, RS products could be used to estimate the relationships between fauna and habitat, such as, for example, the link of the changes in phenology with herbivore population dynamics.”

The Gran Paradiso National Park is devoted to the protection of Alpine ecosystems and biodiversity. It was established in 1922 for the conservation of Alpine ibex. Park wardens, managers and scientists constantly monitor the state of the environment, including ungulate populations, faunal biodiversity, lake ecosystems, grassland conditions, glaciers and snow cover, to assure the preservation of the habitat also in remote areas.

Provide reliable and on-time EO products for the whole Park territory in a very varied landscape, where altitude gradients and clouds are an obstacle to obtaining frequent and high quality Earth Observation images.

The benefits of the Agrowth platform are the following:

• It estimates the current phenology stage of crop and the fuzzy transition of them in the course of time. → Producer/Farmer knows every time in what stage his/her crop is and he/she is able to take action.
• It provides a heatmap for the sowing period of cotton which estimates daily the risk(high/medium/low) → Producer/Farmer has an indication about the right time of sowing, he/she is able to catch the possible sweet early window of April for cotton sowing.
• It predicts the yield in kg/ha, weeks earlier from the harvest. → Producer/Farmer has a good estimation of yield weeks earlier.
• It provides charts for the evolution of the vegetation indices NDVI, NDWI, PSRI and some crop specific indices. → Producer/Farmer has a good indication in order to monitor the vegetation health and the moisture of the crop.
• It visualizes the max and min ambient temperatures per parcel and it interplays with risk.resagri.eu. →  Producer/Farmer has access to ResAgri’s detailed weather information in a 2km x 2km spatial resolution.

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