Author: Yaryna Misyk
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ALFAwetlands Living Lab in Spain
ALFAwetlands contains 9 Living Labs in 10 European countries. One of them, comprising 4 sites, is located in Spain and is managed by the University of Barcelona. Tordera: relict flooded forests in the Mediterranean Basin Roureda de Tordera is a forested area (35 ha) located in the lowlands of the La Tordera River. The uniqueness…
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Leveraging satellite data for wetland monitoring
CREAF has provided ecological and remote sensing expertise to the ALFAwetlands project, applying techniques that improved the spatial knowledge of the wetlands in the project’s Living Labs. In Work Package 1, CREAF developed algorithms to map land cover in Living Labs using Sentinel-2 data and generated 30-year land cover change maps with Landsat data. In…
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Meet CREAF: ALFAwetlands partner from Catalonia
CREAF provides expertise in ecology and remote sensing for important tasks in the ALFAwetlands project. About CREAF CREAF (Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre) is a public research center based in Catalonia. CREAF is dedicated to terrestrial ecology, territorial analysis and global change. CREAF’s mission is to generate knowledge to understand nature, identify potential threats,…
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Meet the University of Barcelona team
The University of Barcelona, a public institution, is renowned for its commitment to quality education, groundbreaking research, and active engagement with society. Founded in 1450, it now fosters a vibrant community of nearly 100,000 members. Researchers participating in the ALFAwetlands project, belong to the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, and Environmental Sciences. And they bring…