WP7 OBSERVATIONAL SURVEY DATA

This EU-funded project (as in EU terminology: work package 7) is a part of a Thematic Network EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION (ENBI)

Objectives

• Develop strategies and networks for common European standards analyzing and presenting biodiversity data that is based on observations, systematic sampling or surveys
• Definition of methodologies linking taxonomic, collection and specimen databases with the observational data (together with WP5 and WP6)
• Establish links with existing projects and programmes that analyze and promote the use of combined GIS and remote sensing for spatial biodiversity data analysis and presentation (WP10)
  

Description of work and methodology

• Design of common standards for building meta databases on existing and future biodiversity data sets created by systematic surveys, sampling or by using various observation methodologies
• Organize a network linking the major institutions, organizations and interest groups involved in management of observational data
• Analyze the applicability of various types of observational data as tools for environmental monitoring
• Explore means to create extensive multi-theme databases on biodiversity patterns at different areal scales

Deliverables

• D7.1 Network of organizations, institutions and specialized interest groups that hold, analyze and present spatial, observation-based biodiversity data
• D7.2a Planning document for data basing standards and recommendations for processing and making available observational biodiversity data
• D7.2b Manual for data basing and making available observational biodiversity data
• D7.3 Report of analysis of observational biodiversity information needs and products to support the European Biodiversity Strategy and parallel activities
• D7.4 Definition of methodologies linking taxonomic, collection and specimen databases with the observational data
• D7.5 Document that will demonstrate the applicability of combined GIS and remote sensing approach as a means for spatial biodiversity data analysis and presentation. The deliverable
  will be developed jointly with WP8 and WP10 using ArcInfo and other GIS platforms

Corresponding milestones

• M7.1 Reference list on IT needs for specimen and observation biodiversity data completed