Projects

BIOPAMA : BIOPAMA stands for Biodiversity and  Protected Areas (PAs) Management in the ACP regions. The objective of this project managed by the JRC and the IUCN  is to enhance existing institutions and networks by building their capacity to strengthen policy and to implement well informed decisions on biodiversity conservation and protected areas management, and access and benefit sharing. While the IUCN will focus on capacity building, the JRC will provide the technical and scientific assistance to set up regional observatories for the 3 regions, observatories that will be largely derived from the DOPA. Some information can be found on the web site of the IUCN

BIOPAMA is supported by a European Development Fund from DG DevCo - Europeaid

UncertWeb: DOPA uses various datasets acquired from a wide range of biodiversity stakeholders worldwide and from remote sensing information. The current model of e-Habitat, DOPA’s core modeling service suffers however from the absence of any means to capture and document the various sources of uncertainties that are associated to the habitat data. Coupled with climate change web services, the propagation of the uncertainties between habitat - climate change data and models is likely to generate impact assessments of little value. It is the purpose of the Workpackage 4 of the UncertWeb project (funded through the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission) to implement the developed uncertainty framework to describe and quantify uncertainties in the habitat models as well as to document uncertainty in impact assessments of climate change when coupling e-Habitat with a climate change model service. More information

UncertWEB is funded by the 7th Framework Program

EuroGEOSS : a European approach to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). EuroGEOSS is a large scale integrated project in the 7th Framework programme of the European Commission. It is part of the thematic area: "ENV.2008.4.1.1.1: European environment Earth observation system supporting INSPIRE and compatible with GEOSS". The project will build an initial operating capacity for a European Environment Earth Observation System in the three strategic areas of Drought, Forestry and Biodiversity. It will then undertake the research necessary to develop this further into an advanced operating capacity that provides access not just to data but also to analytical models made understandable and useable by scientists from different disciplinary domains. DOPA will be the core element of the Biodiversity operating capacity. More information

EuroGEOSS is funded by the 7th Framework Program