Helping nature parks adapt

In a Living Lab approach, ADOPT has worked with France's Regional Nature Parks (RNP) to co-develop indicators derived from satellite imagery that meet their needs. Each pilot RNP can access its own "INNOGIS" visualization interface via a shared website.

🟢 Free access

Automatic Mapping of Natural Terrestrial Habitats in the French Southern Territories

Implemented on Possession Island (Crozet Archipelago) as well as on St. Paul and Amsterdam Islands, and adaptable to other territories, Cartovege has developed:

• a rigorous method for defining and classifying habitats specific to the Austral Lands,
• a data processing pipeline for field data and multi-source imagery, capable of automatically generating a very high-resolution habitat map - including for unvisited areas - based on satellite imagery.

This work has led to the creation of a habitat guide for Crozet, freely available from Quae Publishing (here), and soon for Amsterdam Island.

🟢 Open-source processing pipeline here

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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An olive tree observatory, a bioindicator of climate change

SCOLive has set up an observatory to better understand the conditions under which olive tree diseases appear and to anticipate treatments. In doing so, it uses changes in the condition of trees as a marker of climate change.

As a community project, it relies on a mobile application that provides geolocated, time-stamped information. The whole system has great potential for geographical expansion.

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Seasonal Sargassum Monitoring

Faced with massive strandings of Sargassum seaweed on beaches from the Caribbean to West Africa, SeSam uses satellite water colour to locate the seaweed at sea and then, through modelling, predict its arrival on coastlines up to 3 months in advance. Since November 2025, SeSaM's real-time data has been integrated into CMEMS, the Copernicus Marine and Environmental Monitoring Service.

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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.

🟢 Free access via a THEIA account