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Dr Cróna HodgesResearch Officer
Earth Observation Group, Aberystwyth University
Y Plas, Machynlleth20th May 2014
[email protected] http://cobwebproject.eu/
COBWEB: Helping to map vegetationWork with Aberystwyth University
Presentation Outline
• Existing work– Earth Observation
– Land Cover and Habitat Mapping?
• How COBWEB can help
• Going forward - what we can give back
Earth Observation
© iStockphoto (2014)
Vegetation and Land Cover: Why does it matter?
• Important at every scale– Global: Understanding global agricultural
resource, forest extent, distribution of sensitive habitat types, understanding climate change…
– Regional: Mapping that informs policy for sensitive habitat management, monitoring biodiversity, understanding how vegetation changes…
– Local: Protecting sensitive species, conservation management, our impact on the local environment…
Global land cover products
• Include ‘GLC Share’ launched recently
Regional land cover products
• Europe-wide and national datasets
Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (2013)
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Local Vegetation and Land Cover Research
How COBWEB can help
How COBWEB can help
How COBWEB can help
• In the field we need to know:– Our location,
– Basemapping,
– Information about what we are looking at, and
– Photographs to support our field notes (preferably).
• Mobile apps can be a valuable data collection tool
Going forward - What we can give back
• Data that COBWEB can work with to meet data quality and data management objectives
• Data that will be of interest to other academics and stakeholders
• Field observations – descriptions/data about vegetation and habitat type
• Geotagged photographs of vegetation and habitat types
• …
THANK [email protected]
