CREM · Coral Reefscape Ecology and Mapping
7РП — „Хора“ (Действия „Мария Кюри“)
- Период
- 2010-11-01 → 2013-10-31
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 75 000 €
- Участници
- 1
- Схема
- MC-IRG
Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.
Накратко на български
Коралните рифове се картографират чрез сателитни снимки с много висока разделителна способност, за да се проследи разнообразието им и движението на големи скали. Тези данни помагат за по-доброто разбиране и опазване на екосистемите на рифовете.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
Periodic Report Summary 1 - CREM (Coral Reefscape Ecology and Mapping)
During its two years, the CREM project resulted in two publications in peer-reviewed journals dealing with the bathymetry, coral reef diversity mapping using very high resolution satellite imagery and three publications in peer-reviewed proceedings tackling on the novel satellite and statistical by-products developed to study coral reef ecosystems. The CREM project was promoted by two oral presentations dealing with the interest of very high resolution satellite imagery to detect boulders transported by high-energy events and the innovative spaceborne proxy for mapping coral cover, as well as two poster presentations related to the novel satellite and statistical by-products developed to study coral reef ecosystems. Due to its originality, the CREM project enabled the fellow to give four seminars showing the key points of the coral reef remote sensing in French Polynesia, USA and France. Regarding a teaching aspect, two lectures identifying the interest of the remote sensing to study coral reef ecosystems were transmitted to primary and secondary school teachers in French Polynesia. In terms of the research career development, the fellow both fructified his scientific and teaching experiences. He indeed gained publications and bolstered his networking when disseminating the CREM results in conferences in Vancouver (Canada) and Cairns (Australia). On the other hand, he enjoyed explaining to a wide variety of audience (including a supervised Master 2) the importance to use remote sensing to address burning issues related to coral reef conservation. Underpinned by outcomes tied to the fellow's research and teaching, the reintegration of the fellow holds certain promise.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
Tropical coral reefs shelter a high rate of marine biodiversity and provide a sizeable amount of ecological services. These ecosystems of interest face tremendous and pervasive challenges from human demography skyrockets and inherent development pressures, as well as climate change and associated sea level rise. Prospects of coral reefs conservation, critically inevitable, will achieve through the growth of understanding their ecological mechanisms. The spatial distribution of coral reef plays a key role in ecological processes, including biodiversity structure, variability, connectivity and resilience. The current expansion and pluridisciplinarity of remote sensing technology fosters us to use it as the optimal tool (time- and cost-effective) to reliably and frequently monitoring reefscape features (geomorphic, oceanographic and ecological) across local and regional scales.The goals of this project are to:-couple multiscale and multiplatform remotely-sensed products, such as high-resolution spaceborne and airborne passive images and airborne bathymetric LiDAR active imagery, in order to define an on-line systematic classification scheme of tropical coral reef ecosystems based upon both structural and functional benthic mapping draped over 3D habitat;-develop concepts and methods of the coral reefscape ecology, in order to (i) describe and quantify relationships between the structural complexity of these habitats and ecological characteristics of associated bentho-pelagic communities, such as the diversity, the mobility and the dispersion, and (ii) establish and temporally monitor a coral reef health index related to spectral and spatial proxies;-predict the habitat suitability of species of interest (endangered or indicator taxa), of communities of interest, and to classify reefscape features by protection rank (facilitating the marine spatial planning), in modelling relationships between biotic and environmental variables, through remotely-sensed proxies.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · ParisКоординаторФранция
Връзки
Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз