Assess habitat quality for key species for environmental baseline and/or impact assessment
Challenge ID: |
HCP-4108 |
Originator: |
Onshore: Hatfield |
|||||
Title: |
Assess habitat quality for key species for environmental baseline and/or impact assessment. |
|||||||
Theme: |
ON 4.1: Environmental monitoring - Baseline historic mapping of environment and ecosystems |
|||||||
Consortium Lead: |
Hatfield |
Interviewed Company: |
Hatfield |
|||||
Geography: |
ON.REG.00 - Generic onshore |
|||||||
Challenge Description |
||||||||
What is not possible / not adequately addressed at present? |
||||||||
Flagship species may be present in an area, which increases environmental risks of a project. Areas that need to be mapped can be very large making it difficult to synthesize and understand regional habitat and species distributions. Baseline mapping costs can be very high depending on extent and detail required. |
||||||||
What effect does this challenge have on operations? |
||||||||
Uncertainty regarding presence of important habitat for key species. High costs related to obtaining quality data. |
||||||||
Thematic information requirements: |
Distribution of habitat and biodiversity |
|||||||
What do you currently do to address this challenge? How is this challenge conventionally addressed? |
||||||||
Habitat mapping is performed using vegetation and bio-geoclimatic information, soils, aspect and elevation data. Known species ranges are incorporated and key species may be indicated and mapped by specified lists (red or blue listed species etc.). |
||||||||
What kind of solutions do you envisage could address this challenge? |
||||||||
Land cover classification at a relatively coarse level could be used to screen large land areas whereas detailed habitat assessment would follow during later development phase. |
||||||||
What is your view on the capability of technology to meet this need? Are you currently using EO tech? If not, why not? |
||||||||
Technology is sufficiently mature for coarse level habitat classification. Methods may be under-utilised at present. |
||||||||
Challenge Classification |
||||||||
Impact on Lifecycle (0=none, 4=high): |
Climate / Topography / Urgency: |
|||||||
Pre-license: |
2 |
Climate class: |
Generic climate |
|||||
Exploration: |
3 |
Topographic class: |
Not specific |
|||||
Development: |
4 |
Seasonal variations: |
Warmer weather focus |
|||||
Production: |
1 |
Impact area: |
Environmental, Cost reduction |
|||||
Decommissioning: |
1 |
Technology urgency: |
2 - Short term (2-5 years) |
|||||
Challenge Information Requirements |
||||||||
Update frequency: |
Snapshot |
|||||||
Data currently used: |
High resolution imagery Aerial imagery |
|||||||
Spatial resolution: |
Regional |
|||||||
Thematic accuracy: |
Not specific |
|||||||
Required formats: |
Not Specific |
|||||||
Timeliness (Vintage): |
Within six months |
|||||||
Geographic extents: |
Regional |
|||||||
Existing standards: |
None |
|||||||
There is no content with the specified labels