Assessing Changes to Regional Habitats

Closed

ARCH partners will share information and jointly develop methods to assess the condition of habitats and species, improve the way in which they are mapped and use innovative techniques to secure their long term monitoring and conservation. Although habitats differ, partners have benefitted from a long-term shared desire to achieve these objectives, and to be able to offer a system for gathering, mapping, analyzing and using biodiversity information to scientists, planners and decision-makers in the 2 Seas area. The project will therefore ensure that base biological data on the extent and distribution of key habitats meets national and European objectives in terms of biodiversity protection in its area. It will firstly assess the extent and condition of biodiversity across Kent and Nord-Pas de Calais and then develop a geographical information system for habitat & biodiversity data use by land planners, and a ‘Planning Footprint Software’ tool, both of which will be developed jointly through working groups and crossborder seminars. They will also explore the use of further techniques for long-term monitoring, such as satellite generated imagery.

Medium