Visita de Justin Stevenston

Justin Steventon que es el desarollador del software Cybertracker visitará la EBD la próxima semana. Justin viene de Redmond, WA, EE.UU., invitado por el Equipo de Seguimiento  de Procesos Naturales. Estara en Sevilla del 8 al 12 de Febrero. Cualquier persona interesada contactar con él,  debe hablar con Hugues Lefranc, hugo@ebd.csic.es

Justin dará un seminario en la EBD el martes 9 de Febrero a la 1:00 pm con el Título:"Cybertracker: New Technologies for Long-Term Biodiversity Monitoring"

Resumen:

Climate change, pollution, habitat destruction and loss of biodiversity may have serious impacts on human welfare. To anticipate and prevent negative impacts will require ongoing long-term monitoring of all aspects of the environment.
Our vision is to enable people to be part of a worldwide environmental monitoring network. Our mission is to help you improve environmental monitoring by increasing the efficiency of data gathering and to improve observer reliability.
CyberTracker has created a software application which allows a broad range of users to capture rich and highly customized environmental data.

 En la pagina web: http://www.cybertracker.org/ podeis encontrar más información sobre este software.

Visita de Keith McCloy

Durante los días 16 y 17 de octubre el LAST recibe la visita de Keith McCloy, científico perteneciente al Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences de la Universidad de Aarhus en Dinamarca.

El día 17 impartirá un seminario sobre:

"Mapping changes in Vegetative Phenology from long time series of image data"
There is a lot of anecdotal evidence on changes in plant phenological dates, probably arising due to climate change. A number of workers have investigated whether changes in plant green matter can be detected in satellite image data. This presentation will show that this work is sub-optimal as it considers only a trend, whereas plant phenology can change in a variety of ways, most of which will give a trend if that is all one looks for. The presentation will discuss the development of these new indices and what they show is happening in Europe. Understanding the actual meaning of the indices is ongoing research.

Short Biography
Dr McCloy has been involved in Remote Sensing since 1974. He developed the first applied postgraduate remote sensing course to be conducted in Australia. He has been involved in numerous research projects in remote sensing involving the development of the mixture algorithm, the development of classification and estimation methods, implementation of various applications of remote sensing in agriculture and rangelands management. He is currently employed as a senior scientist in the University of Aarhus in Denmark where he focuses on the development of tools to analyse time series of image data to understand the dynamics of vegetation.

Visita de Susan Ustin

Susan Ustin, directora del CSTARS (Universidad de California, Davis) visitó el LAST-EBD la semana del 22 al 26 de Septiembre. Impartió un seminario titulado "Using imaging spectroscopy to map invasive aquatic and wetland plants in northern California", dentro del ciclo de seminarios de la Estación Biológica de Doñana"