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WORK PACKAGES

Work Package 1000. Coordination of data search and data access.
Coordinator: GIM
The specific objectives of WP1000 will be (i) to identify existing European datasets related to land cover, land use and the four pressures (intensification, abandonment, afforestation, urbanisation) acting on the environment, (ii) to streamline and coordinate access to these datasets and databases and (iii) to streamline and coordinate access to the aerial photos acquired for WP7000, WP2000 and WP3000.

Work Package 2000. Methodological development for photo-to-photo interpretation for characterising land cover change between 1950, 1990 and 2000.
Coordinator: CEH Monks Wood
The overall aim of WP2000 will be to develop a quality assured method for the production of land cover change matrices from the interpretation of aerial photographs.

Work Package 3000. Production of land cover change products.
Coordinator: GIM
The main specific objective of WP3000 will be to interpret the aerial photographs and to produce land cover change matrices for the remaining Natura2000 sites and their surrounding landscape followed by a thorough assessment of the results.

Work Package 4000. Linking land cover change to pressures on biodiversity.
Coordinator: ALTERRA
The overall aim of WP4000 is to develop a quantitative and spatially referenced product showing the main pressures on biodiversity (intensification, abandonment, afforestation, urbanisation), with distinct objectives:

• The development of a GIS framework and a method for spatial stratification that will support and facilitate the data integration.

• The development of improved pan-European land cover change (1990-2000 and beyond) products from Earth observation.

• The development of a method for integrating socio-economic data with measures of land cover change to quantify pressures (intensification, abandonment, afforestation and urbanisation) on biodiversity.

• The development of a method for linking the quantitative and spatially referenced data describing intensification, abandonment, afforestation and urbanisation to changes in biodiversity by means of a semi-quantitative pressure-state model.

• The development of methods which will acquire measures of error and assess the propagation of error through the entire sequence of data manipulation


Work Package 5000. Assessing problems.
Coordinator: CEH Monks Wood
The specific objective of WP5000 will be to collect feedback from partners regarding problems (technical, scientific, all aspects of data accessibility, data quality, organisational, legal and institutional hurdles) encountered at each stage of the development and production process.

Work Package 6000. Demonstration and dissemination.
Coordinator: CREAF
WP6000 will ensure the distribution of the generated final and intermediate products and corresponding documentation to relevant EU users, national users, the research community and the private sector, beyond the lifetime of the project.

Work Package 7000. Backdating CORINE 1990 using 1950’ies aerial photos.
Coordinator: GISAT
The overall aim of WP7000 is to produce landcover change matrices for a large sample of Natura 2000 sites by backdating CORINE 1990 using aerial photographs of the 1950’ies.

Work Package 8000: Review workplan for Phase-II.
Coordinator: CEH Monks Wood
The workplan for phase-II (WP4000) will be reviewed based on the experiences from Phase-I. A detailed assessment of the potential of high- and medium-resolution satellites adequate for the purpose of assessing land cover change in and outside Natura2000 sites including a cost-benefit analysis will be carried out.

 
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