Nina Obiar – GEO BON

MBON news and prototype tools for SDG14

I. NASA Announced the winning proposals in support of the GEO Work Programme. MBON received support for 2 activities with…

November 6, 2017

The GlobDiversity project has started

This European Space Agency (ESA) funded project supports the efforts of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform…

November 1, 2017

RUS: A New Expert Service for Sentinel Data Users

The Research and User Support (RUS) opened on 25 September, 2017 with the aim to promote the uptake of Copernicus…

November 1, 2017

Invitation to submit biodiversity related papers to a regular IGARSS 2018 session

The IGARSS 2018 conference will be held in Valencia Spain from 22 Jul – 27 Jul 2018 See https://www.igarss2018.org/Default.asp for details and…

October 16, 2017

GEO BON represented in an OPPLA webinar on ecosystem services in international policies

The webinar consisted of two presentations on results from the OPERAs project. The first presentation was from Marianne Kettunen and…

September 22, 2017

GEO BON Implementation Plan 2017-2020

The GEO BON Management Committee is very happy to inform you that the Implementation Plan of GEO BON for 2017-2020…

August 23, 2017

CForBio annual report 2016

The 2016 annual report for CForBio – the Chinese Forest Biodiversity Monitoring Network can be downloaded now as PDF.

August 22, 2017

Identify Anything, Anywhere, Instantly (Well, Almost) With the Newest iNaturalist Release

A new version of the California Academy of Sciences’ iNaturalist app uses artificial intelligence to offer immediate identifications for photos of any…

August 16, 2017

New paper on building EBVs of species distribution and abundance at a global scale

As an outcome of the first two workshops organized by the EU-funded Horizon 2020 project GLOBIS-B (“GLOBal Infrastructures for Supporting…

August 15, 2017

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