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Professor Andrew Skidmore
Wednesday 21 March 2018
11am -12pm
Sir Harold Raggatt Theatre, Geoscience Australia
Many of the key challenges that face humanity are due to the impacts of global change on biodiversity and the stability of ecosystems and natural services that they provide. In this presentation, I will discuss the process and progress in using remote sensing for monitoring of essential biodiversity variables to predict the consequences of changes in the global drivers of biodiversity. Essential Biodiversity Variable (EBVs) are defined as the key variables required to observe, understand, and report on change in the state of biodiversity. They sit as a layer between raw biodiversity observations and the biodiversity indicators used in policy, such as the indicators measuring progress towards the CBD Aichi Targets.
EBVs provide key guidance to the observation system in terms of what it should measure, and their intermediate position between observations and indicators isolates those indicators from changes in observation technology. Satellite remote sensing can play a crucial role in the measurement of EBVs, particularly for a subset of EBVs which we denote by RS-EBVs. Largely, this is because the global and periodic nature of satellite remote sensing greatly simplifies the acquisition of the needed observations, making RS an ideal method for understanding change at national as well as other scales.
Professor Andrew Skidmore is Professor of Spatial Environmental Resource Dynamics at Macquarie University and ITC, the University of Twente, including 20 years as Chairman of the Department of Natural Resources. His interest in research relates to biodiversity and vegetation monitoring under fragmentation, hyperspectral remote sensing, as well as image processing and more generally techniques for handling geo-information. His career includes 12 years employment in the forest industry before moving to university work.
This talk is presented as part of the Wednesday Seminar Series.
Free, No bookings required.
Technical.
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