Cristiana Mandru

GEO BON Genetic Composition Working Group engages CBD with Indicators publication, a Policy Brief, webinars

Co leads of the Genetic Composition Working Group, Sean Hoban and Maggie Hunter led 31 authors from 18 countries on…

October 14, 2020

A pipeline for standardising and integrating alien species data

There has been enormous progress over the last half decade in the collation and publication of global datasets on alien…

October 14, 2020

New book published “Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis – Remote Sensing and GIS with Open Source software”

The new textbook “An Introduction to Spatial Data analysis – Remote Sensing and GIS with Open Source software” is published…

October 13, 2020

Monitoring Ecosystem Services: From global to local

Last July 8, the Ecosystem Services Working Group session took place within the framework of the GEO BON All Hands…

October 13, 2020

French EBV operationalization pilot, Biodiversity indicators computation on the European Open Science Cloud

At GEO BON OSC 2020 conference, Coline Royaux, french museum of natural history, presented “Galaxy for Ecology: An open source…

October 13, 2020

Launch of the new H2020 project EuropaBON: An EU-wide framework for monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem services

EuropaBON (Europa Biodiversity Observation Network: integrating data streams to support policy), a new project funded under the European Union’s Horizon…

October 13, 2020

Open call for the nomination of the GEO BON co-chair

GEO BON is now opening a nomination process for its co-chair that will serve a mandate of at least 3…

August 31, 2020

GlobDiversity Newsletter Issue 5

GlobDiversity engineered retrieval algorithms for three remote sensing-based variables relevant for biodiversity monitoring. They are Fragmentation, Land Surface Phenology and…

August 31, 2020

AmeriGEOSS is inviting you to register to the virtual 2020 Americas Symposium (Sept.7-9)

The AmeriGEO Co-Chairs are pleased to announce that the detailed agenda is now available for the 2020 America’s Symposium. Please find…

August 31, 2020

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