EDAFOS (ESA-PECS): EDAFOS project titled “Development and testing of desertification risk and pressures mapping and assessment tool” aims to develop test and validate a Geographical Information System (GIS) based platform to assess and map desertification and land degradation risk. The development of the EDAFOS platform will be based on the evolution of the DeWIS and Medalus methods and will have an open architecture to allow the seamless expansion and deployment of the Tool at large geospatial scales. The platform will apply state of art methods and tools for the processing of satellite data and products and ground-based measurements for the preparation of risk maps as well as pressure response analysis. The EDAFOS Platform will also support National Competent Authorities in the implementation of the desertification directive and the development of desertification and land degradation management and mitigation plans.
Consortium:
ATLANTiS (Coordinator)
ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence, Cyprus
DEPARTMENT of ENVIRONMENT
Acknowledgements:
EDAFOS project funded by ESA (CY5_10), “Development and testing of desertification risk and pressures mapping and Assessment tool”.
