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Coordination and Development of Infomation from Image data in Nordic Landscape Level Monitoring
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The scope for NordLaM can appear vast ... both 'remote sensing' and 'monitoring'
potentially cover a great range of issues and projects. It is important therefore to note
a number of significant ways in which the scope for NordLaM is defined: |
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the focus is upon monitoring of the terrestrial environment
and ecology, relating in particular to biodiversity and the related abiotic, cultural and social factors |
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the focus is towards strategic monitoring programmes - i.e.
those operational or quasi-operational programmes that form part of the
scientific infrastructure for the establishment of long-term monitoring datasets for measuring
changes and trends in land use, land cover, vegetation and biodiversity |
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particular interest is placed upon monitoring undertaken at a landscape
level - i.e. in terms of (a) those aspects of the environment and ecology that require understanding at the level of
landscapes and broad habitats and (b) monitoring that not restricted to the interests of a single sector |
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at the core of NordLaM is the focus upon the ways in which
image data from remote sensing are used in these types of monitoring activities -- remote sensing is relevant
for such monitoring for its abilities to derive cost-effective wide-area information (important given the vastness
of several Nordic countries) and to provide support to field sample-based monitoring |
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last, but not least, the focus is upon issues that are relevant to
the Nordic region - in terms of both the monitoring programmes undertaken within the Nordic countries
and the environmental and ecological characteristics found in this geographic region
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