What can Earth Observation (EO) actually tell you about the state of an ecosystem and the impact of your conservation work?
Join this course, the second created with the ESA funded PEOPLE-ECCO Project, to move from EO foundations into application. Building on the principles, data access, and processing skills from the first course, you will explore broad groups of classification algorithms and learn to select which of six Earth Observation conservation tools best fit your question. With expert lectures and interactive practice activities you will then put these tools to work for ecosystem characterization—detecting vegetation disturbance, tracking vegetation productivity trends, mapping submerged aquatic vegetation and coral reef habitat extent, and assessing aquatic habitat frequency and connectivity. Finally, you will learn to measure outcomes through habitat intactness rating and counterfactual impact assessment using the Before-After-Control-Impact (BACI) approach. Each unit is clearly related to specific learning outcomes, so that you can skip topics you already know and focus only on content relevant for your particular situation or learning goals.
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Learning outcomes
- Distinguish broad groups of classification algorithms
- Select which of the six Earth Observation conservation tools apply to your question
- Identify vegetation disturbance occurrence for ecosystem characterization
- Estimate submerged aquatic vegetation and coral reef habitat extent for ecosystem characterization
- Analyze vegetation productivity trend for ecosystem characterization
- Apply counterfactual impact assessment: Before-after-control-impact (BACI)
- Assess habitat Intactness rating
- Evaluate aquatic habitat frequency and connectivity
