Monitoring changes in the mountain environment

Faced with the colonisation of moorland to the detriment of Alpine meadows, the Orion project has used satellite imagery to develop a detailed map (10 m) of natural habitats as well as fauna and flora indicators, including grazing area.

Replicable and scalable, the method is particularly well suited to managers of these areas, which are undergoing major changes to protect the environment as well as pastoral and tourist activities. It also offers very interesting prospects for understanding and preserving the ecosystems that emerge when glaciers retreat.

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Monitoring terrestrial ecological changes

Developed as part of the EO4MP project, the Terrestrial Ecology Data service is an on-demand service developed as part of the SCO EO4MP project and operated by the THEIA infrastructure. The service provides advanced indicators of ecosystem properties from high-resolution Sentinel-2 time series. The results can be viewed in the form of interactive graphs, with the possibility of comparing images from different years or superimposing indices to observe changes in vegetation or other parameters.

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