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A workflow for Sustainable Development Goals indicators assessment based on high-resolution satellite data

International Journal of Digital Earth, 2020
For evaluating the progresses towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a global indicator framework was developed by the UN Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals Indicators.
Nataliia Kussul, Mykola Lavreniuk, Andrii Kolotii, Sergii Skakun, Olena Rakoid, Leonid Shumilo   +5 more
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Essential Variables for Environmental Monitoring: What Are the Possible Contributions of Earth Observation Data Cubes?

Data, 2020
Environmental sustainability is nowadays a major global issue that requires efficient and effective responses from governments. Essential variables (EV) have emerged in different scientific communities as a means to characterize and follow environmental ...
Gregory Giuliani, Elvire Egger, Julie Italiano, Charlotte Poussin, Jean-Philippe Richard, Bruno Chatenoux   +5 more
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An expert-based reference list of variables for characterizing and monitoring social-ecological systems

Ecology and Society, 2020
The social-ecological system (SES) approach is fundamental for addressing global change challenges and to developing sustainability science. Over the last two decades, much progress has been made in translating this approach from theory to practice ...
Manuel Pacheco-Romero, Domingo Alcaraz-Segura, María Vallejos, Javier Cabello   +3 more
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Essential Biodiversity Variables

Science, 2013
A global system of harmonized observations is needed to inform scientists and policy-makers.
Pereira, H. M., Ferrier, S., Walters, M., Geller, G.N., Jongman, R.H.G., Scholes, Robert J., Bruford, M.W., Brummitt, N., Butchart, S.H.M., Cardoso, A.C., Coops, Nicholas C., Dulloo, M. Ehsan, Faith, D.P., Freyhof, J., Gregory, R. D., Heip, C., Höft, R., Hurtt, G., Jetz, W., Karp, D., McGeoch, M. A., Obura, D., Onoda, Y., Pettorelli, N., Reyers, B., Sayre, R., Scharlemann, J.P.W., Stuart, S. N., Turak, E., Walpole, M., Wegmann, M.   +30 more
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A goal-based approach to the identification of essential transformation variables in support of the implementation of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development

International Journal of Digital Earth, 2020
The United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development sets seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030. Earth observation are needed that can support the development and validation of transformation policies to make ...
Hans-Peter Plag, Shelley-Ann Jules-Plag
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Earth observations for sustainable development goals monitoring based on essential variables and driver-pressure-state-impact-response indicators

International Journal of Digital Earth, 2020
In recent years, researchers of different communities have increased their efforts in formalizing a set of measurements regularly collected for analysing changes in Drivers, States, Impacts and Responses of a given discipline.
Joan Masó, Ivette Serral, Cristina Domingo-Marimon, Alaitz Zabala   +3 more
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Modeling current and future species distribution of breeding birds as regional essential biodiversity variables (SD EBVs): A bird perspective in Swiss Alps

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021
Changes in distribution and abundance of species affect the entirety of biodiversity and monitoring these changes is critical for the efficient conservation of integrity and functions of species population.
Nasrin Amini Tehrani, Babak Naimi, Michel Jaboyedoff   +2 more
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Ecosystem Services in a Protected Mountain Range of Portugal: Satellite-Based Products for State and Trend Analysis

Remote Sensing, 2018
Mountains are facing strong environmental pressures, which may jeopardize the supply of various ecosystem services. For sustainable land management, ecosystem services and their supporting functions should thus be evaluated and monitored.
Claudia Carvalho-Santos, António T. Monteiro, Salvador Arenas-Castro, Felix Greifeneder, Bruno Marcos, Ana Paula Portela, João Pradinho Honrado   +6 more
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Embedded Temporal Convolutional Networks for Essential Climate Variables Forecasting

Sensors, 2022
Forecasting the values of essential climate variables like land surface temperature and soil moisture can play a paramount role in understanding and predicting the impact of climate change.
Maria Myrto Villia, Grigorios Tsagkatakis, Mahta Moghaddam, Panagiotis Tsakalides   +3 more
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A methodology to uncertainty quantification of essential ocean variables

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
The goal of this study is to provide a universally applicable procedure for a systematic evaluation of in situ measured data from single sensors regarding quantifying the uncertainty of the measurement results.
Christoph Waldmann, Philipp Fischer, Steffen Seitz, Manuela Köllner, Jens-Georg Fischer, Markus Bergenthal, Holger Brix, Stefan Weinreben, Robert Huber   +8 more
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