The Earth Obsevation Data Ecosystem Monitoring (Eodesm) System

Through the EU FP7 Horizon 2020 ECOPOTENTIAL project, a novel and innovative approach to classification has been developed, which is termed the Earth Observation Data for Ecosystem Monitoring (EODESM), and has been built on concepts behind an implementation of the Earth Observation Data for Habitat Monitoring (EODHaM) system generated as part of the EU FP7 BIOSOS project, applied to Very High Resolution (VHR) Worldview data. The EODESM system facilitates routine classification of land covers according to the Food and Agricultural Organisations Land Cover Classification System (FAOLCCS), translates these to other taxonomies (including General Habitat Classifications; GHCs) and facilitates routine detection of change and the generation of maps indicating the causes and consequences of such change.