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Coordination and Development of Infomation from Image data in Nordic Landscape Level Monitoring
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| NordLaM Symposia and Meetings |
| NordLaM Symposium, Fuglsø Centre Mols (DK), October 1999 |
| organised by Geoff Groom, NERI |
In October 1999 the NordLaM symposium, organised by NERI and financed by the
Nordic Council of Ministers and NERI was held at Fuglsø in Denmark. This workshop, with
over 60 participants (Group Photo)
and 24 presentations (Presentations List)
examined many of the major terrestrial landscape, environment and biodiversity
programmes currently operating or planned for the Nordic area. Programmes for monitoring forests,
open agriculatural landscapes, cultural landscapes, rare habitats and
biodiversity, using archive data, field survey and remote sensing were all
represented. A number of Europe-wide initiatives were also presented.
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participants the workshop was an invaluable opportunity to examine the
breadth of Nordic monitoring activities and meet and discuss ideas with many of
the leading persons in this work.
From the workshop it emerged that terrestrial monitoring programmes were
proceeding at different paces and in different ways in the various Nordic
countries.
It was also clear that there were a number of major monitoring issues
that currently represent challenges for coordination and development of Nordic and
wider international terrestrial monitoring activities. These include:
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how to make correspondence between the class sets used by
different monitoring programmes |
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the respective roles for the landscape level and the habitat level
approaches to monitoring |
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the role for the broad approach to landscape monitoring, including the
cultural landscape and the driving forces of landscape change |
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the integration of information from sample-based and census-based
monitoring |
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the appropriate roles for Earth Observation data in monitoring |
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the monitoring requirements for investigation of the relationships of
specific species diversity to landscape character |
The Nordic Council of Ministers TemaNord Series publication "Strategic Landscape Monitoring
for the Nordic Countries" (TN-2001:523, published May2001 includes papers based upon many of the presentations made
at this Symposium.
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