16/01/2009 Delivery of final report
The public final report of the DIVERSITY project has been delivered to ESA. The report summarises the objective and results of the project.
15/12/2008 ESA and GeoVille sign contract change notice
ESA and GeoVille signed a contract change note (CCN) to extend the DIVERSITY project for one particular service. The service on "changes in dry and sub-humid lands" was considered to be very successful by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). One of the objectives of the CBD is to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at global, regional and national level as a contribution to poverty alleviation and to the benefit of all life on Earth". Monitoring the progress towards the 2010 target requires assessing the change in the rate of biodiversity loss. The DIVERSITY project has successfully demonstrated how existing global land cover data can be used to assess changes in the composition of one particular ecosystem - dry and sub-humid lands.
The objective of the DIVERSITY 2010 project is to support the CDB by contributing to the development of CBD headline indicators by assessing changes in the extent of different ecosystems or their connectivity / fragmentation. DIVERSITY 2010 will do so by developing a consistent approach for an assessment of changes in selected ecosystems (forests, croplands, grasslands) based on existing global land cover databases.
19/09/2008 DIVERSITY final user workshop took place in Honduras
The DIVERSITY final user workshop took place on the 18 and 19 September 2008 at Zamarano University close to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, by invitation of CCAD (the inter-governmental Commission for Environment of Central America) and the University of Zamorano. It was attended by official delegates of all 7 nations within Central America. A total number of 25 participants attended the workshop, including representatives of NGOs and the inter-governmental organization CATHALAC.
Link to the press release of the Honduras newspaper La Tribuna (in Spanish).
Summary of the workshop is available in the internal section.
05/06/2008 Newsletter No. 7 DIVERSITY at the COP9 in Bonn
The DIVERSIY project was presented by Mario Hernandez from UNESCO at the ESA side event (26 May 2008) during the UN's Convention on Biological Diveresity Conference of the Parties from 19 to 30 May 2008 in Bonn. To know more about the ESA event and the COP9 meeting please take a look to our newsletter and the information directly provided by ESA.
05/12/2007 Acceptance Test Review Meeting successfully completed in Innsbruck
On Friday 30/11/2007 the DIVERSITY project partners met with ESA and user representatives to discuss project progress and user feedback on the prototypes provided to the user organisations in October 2007. Feedback was positive and written statements will be provided by mid December to allow ESA to decide about the start of phase 2 of the DIVERSTY project.
05/11/2007 - Newsletter No. 6 “Official Invitation to Acceptance Test Review Meeting”
A newsletter has been sent to the users as an official invitation to the Acceptance Test Review Meeting to be held at GeoVille offices in Innsbruck, Austria at 30 November 2007.
16/10/2007 - Newsletter No. 5 “DIVERSITY’s Prototypes”
A newsletter has been sent to the users summarizing information on all prototype products derived within DIVERSITY.
24/07/2007 - Newsletter No. 4 “DIVERSITY’s First Results”
A newsletter has been sent to the users, consortium partners and all other interested people summarizing DIVERSITY’s first results
22/04/2007 - 2nd User Meeting held
The 2nd user meeting has been held in Costa Rica from 18 – 20 April, 2007. The objective of this meeting was to report on the status of the project and to train on product/service related ground truth data collection.
Day 1 of the meeting has been used for information on the status of the project discussed for each product and service, separately. Day 2 and Day 3 comprised field trips for training on ground truth data collection – coral reefs, mangrove forests and inland vegetation at the pacific coast have been visited.
03/04/2007 - Newsletter No. 3 “Official Invitation to 2nd User Meeting”
A newsletter has been sent to the users as an official invitation to the 2nd User Meeting to be held in Costa Rica from 18 – 20 April, 2007.
16/12/2006 - 1st User Meeting held
The 1st user meeting has been held at Esrin, Italy from 12 – 13 December, 2006. The objective of this meeting was to introduce the project, the project consortium and its expertise and the approaches for the products and services to be implemented.
24/11/2006 - Newsletter No. 2 “Official Invitation to 1st User Meeting”
A newsletter has been sent to the users as an official invitation to the 1st User Meeting to be held in Esrin, Italy from 12 – 13 December, 2006.
04/11/2006 - Newsletter No. 1 “Project Introduction”
A newsletter has been sent to the users in order to introduce the project
