3. Learning from data

D1. Big data science in social-ecological systems towards sustainable landscape management

Martin Schultze, Evelyn Asante-Yeboah, Praveen Kumar, Christine Fürst

Forecasting sustainable landscape management under future scenarios of climate change aspects, land-use changes and different socio-economic drivers demand integration of new knowledge sources across scientific disciplines. The symposium will bring together scientists, practitioners and students discussing big data approaches, monitoring methods as well as novel modelling concepts relevant to questions such as (i) How does big data facilitate a better understanding of human-nature interactions? and (ii) What frameworks and strategies do ensure a successful implementation to achieve sustainable landscape management practices?

D2. Towards a dynamic assessment of habitats conservation status: from in situ data to Copernicus services

Jose Manuel Álvarez-Martínez, Borja Jiménez Alfaro

A current challenge of biodiversity and conservation relies on mapping habitat types at the landscape scale. In the absence of fine-resolution maps, predictive modelling provides a useful tool still uncommon in planning and management. The objective of this symposium will be collecting works designed for monitoring ecosystems with suitable estimates of their distribution and conservation status at different scales. Approaches will combine ground data and limiting factors, remote sensing (Copernicus) and modelling, allowing harmonizing habitat maps across space and time under Global Change scenarios.

D3. Earth Observation (EO) for ecosystem services monitoring

Edyta Woźniak, Mariasilvia Giamberini, Ioannis Manakos, Lluís Pesquer Mayos

The symposium will be focused on the use of remote sensing for ecosystem services (ES) monitoring. The access to new kind of satellite data and on-line services, as well as, the development of advanced image-processing technologies have opened novel opportunities to track changes in ecosystems and landscapes and their impact on the provided services. During the symposium, new EO methods and applications will be presented.