MAP.INVADER
Invasive alien plants mapping over national extents using an automated and multi-scale remote sensing framework
National wide monitoring of invasive alien plants, with high temporal frequency and resolution, is still not available in many European countries; disabling the planning of many mitigation measures. A multi-scale remote sensing framework, designed and evaluated with end-users feedback, is proposed to map acacia dealbata over continental Portugal. This will contribute to improve monitoring capabilities which in turn will help in the planning and evaluation of any mitigation measures.
MAP.INVADER main objective is to propose an A.dealbata national mapping framework to generate yearly national maps over the period of the project (2026-2028) for continental Portugal. The operationalization of this research is central with MAP.INVADER. This is aimed at making the developed research to be integrated into a framework which is able not only to address these research problems but at the same time be useful for several Portuguese institutions which deal with invasive alien plants. To this regard, MAP.INVADER is counting with the support of several Portuguese institutes: Portuguese Institute for Nature and Conservation (ICNF), Portuguese Directorate-General for the Territory (DGT) and Intermunicipal Community of Coimbra’s Region (CIM-RC); to guide the operationalization of the overall framework to match end-users needs.
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Operation no. 14727, COMPETE2030-FEDER 00922900
Call for SR&TD Projects in all Scientific Domains 2023