Project Advisory Board - European Space Agency (ESA) EO for Wetland Inventories (EO4WI) project
Committee Name
Project Advisory Board - European Space Agency (ESA) EO for Wetland Inventories (EO4WI) project
Committee Type
EXTERNAL
Date
N/A
Description
The objective of the EO4WI project is to develop scalable and cost-effective EO solutions to automatically identify, delineate, classify and characterise the spatial extent of wetlands ecosystems (i.e., wetland spatial extent disaggregated by wetland types), and their changes, and derive indicators on wetland extent and changes, at different spatial aggregation levels (e.g., by administrative units and river basins). The goals are to enable large-scale automatic mapping of wetland ecosystem types, to empower countries with EO-based solutions to produce their national wetland inventories, and to collaborate with international actors to support the production of regional, continental or global wetland maps, which can be proposed as default data to countries that have limited capacities to implement their national wetland inventories.