Topic: Land Cover Change (LCC) and Extreme Events in the Context of Climate Change
Dates: July 16 (Tuesday) – July 19 (Friday), 2024
Hosted by CIHEAM Chania Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania
Venue location: The workshop will be held at the Conference Center of CIHEAM, Chania, Greece
Focus: Land Cover Change (LCC) and Extreme Events, in the context of climate change (e.g., water scarcity/floods, heat waves, droughts, flash floods, urban expansion and human health).
Meeting agenda
Preliminary meeting agenda
Registration form: participation is free of charge
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About SCERIN & MedRIN
The activities of both SCERIN and MedRIN aim to contribute to the work of the Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD) panel of the Global Terrestrial Observing System program for observations, modeling, and analysis to support sustainable development. Both, SCERIN and MedRIN belong to GOFC-GOLD Regional networks and contribute to advance the organization’s goals to improve the methods for monitoring the dynamics, stability and vulnerability of the major regional ecosystems for future effective sustainable management and preservation. The two networks include remote sensing (RS) scientists and professionals based in the SCERIN and MedRIN regions or with scientific interests in these regions. The networks strive to ensure continuity and collaboration between the scientists, professionals and existing RS networks in both European regions: South, Central, and East Europe (SCERIN) and Mediterranean (MedRIN).
SCERIN
focuses on the Danube watershed and western Black Sea coast, which
include the territories of
Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Moldova, Macedonia,
Poland,
Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, and other neighboring countries. The structure
of
SCERIN consists of five Focus Groups (FGs):
MEDRIN
shares developments and furthers Earth Observation (EO) scientific
collaborations in the Mediterranean region (Southern European, North African, and Middle East
(Levant)).
MEDRIN community members include those from Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Malta,
Spain,
Turkey and other Mediterranean nations, as well as crossover memberships with SCERIN nation-state
community members. A North African Regional Information Network (NARIN) is being established and
MEDRIN
will coordinate activities once fully established. The structure of MedRIN consists of priority
topics
of the region identified by the community, and include relevant land-cover / land-use change
aspects:
There have already been several separate/independent SCERIN and MedRIN workshops (http://scerin.eu), which were successful in organizing strong teams of network participants, including researchers, remote-sensing experts and professionals from the operational agencies, who agreed on a common set of network goals, networks structure and priority objectives. The RIN’s priorities were outlined and their needs for networking and capacity building initiatives were formulated. The workshops have focused on the specific LCLUC challenges in the different countries, and have initiated several regional collaborative activities.
There was also one highly successful Joint MedRIN and SCERIN-8 Capacity Building Workshop on EOS June 15-17, 2021 which focused on ‘Ecosystem health, drought, and wildfires in the context of climate change’, reviewed the priorities of the networks and outlined topics and activities of common interest for both SCERIN and MedRIN.