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MISSION:
Inventory, Assessment and Monitoring of Mediterranean Wetlands.
OVERALL OBJECTIVE:
To explore possibilities of adopting Remote Sensing (RS) prototype products applicable to
Mediterranean wetlands and of making the MedWet Web Information System
(MW/WIS) a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) which fulfills
European and global requirements (i.e. INSPIRE, GEOSS, GSDI).
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
- To explore the possibilities of using RS data for inventorying, assessing
and monitoring Mediterranean wetlands. In particular: (i) their habitat
extent, (ii) land use / cover changes as a measure of threats, (iii) dissolved
nitrate concentration, (iv) chlorophyll a, etc;
- To plan future tests of existing RS prototype products in selected
Mediterranean wetland sites;
- To explore possibilities of involving MedWet in preparatory phase and
transposition of the INSPIRE initiative.
EXPECTED
OUTPUTS:
- Establishment of collaborations in order to test and validate existing
prototype products in selected Mediterranean wetlands;
- Establishment of an expert working group to prepare manual guidelines
for selected RS prototype products;
- Planning of the MedWet involvement into existing SDI initiatives.
ORGANISERS:
The workshop was organized by the Greek Biotope-Wetland Centre (EKBY)
in collaboration with the MedWet Coordination Unit (MCU) in the frame of
the INTERREG IIIC MedWet/CODDE Project (2005-2007).
VENUE:
The
workshop was hosted at the premises of the Greek Biotope-Wetland Centre
(EKBY) at the city of Thessaloniki in Greece.
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