Land surface temperature trends as indicator of land use changes in wetlands Javier Muro, Adrian Strauch, Sascha Heinemann, Stefanie Steinbach, Frank Thonfeld, Björn Waske, Bernd Diekkrüger Abstract The impacts of agricultural expansion on wetlands are diverse and complex. Land surface…
Towards the end of 2017, the SWOS team invited a selection of users to review the initial version of the SWOS portal. The aim of the user review was to engage key users in the development of the portal in order to…
A broad consortium of authors including from the SWOS, GEO-Wetlands and ECOPOTENTIAL projects have published a new paper: Mapping Mediterranean Wetlands With Remote Sensing: A Good-Looking Map Is Not Always a Good Map Christian Perennou, Anis Guelmami, Marc Paganini, Petra…
The 3rd edition of the Mediterranean Water Forum was held on January 22nd – 24th 2018 in Cairo, Egypt gathering the Mediterranean Water Community to discuss and debate on priority topics linked with the Thematic Framework of the 8th World…
Dubai Municipality, Environment Department-Natural Resources Conservation Section, in collaboration with Tour du Valat and the Horizon-2020 SWOS project (Satellite-based Wetland Observation Service), organised a workshop on wetlands monitoring between 5-9th of November 2017. Around 60 experts in wetland management and…
Tour du Valat, EMWIS and Wetlands International jointly organised a 3 days training session in Rabat Morocco from 22 to 24 May 2017. The purpose was to train French speaking users coming mainly from Maghreb and West African countries in…
As part of the SWOS capacity building activities, the two partners Tour du Valat and ETC-UMA jointly organised the first training for users from West-Balkan countries. A total number of 10 users from 4 countries gathered in Podgorica (Montenegro) at…
The Sebou River basin is one of the largest river basins in Morocco covering about 40 000 km2 (6% of national territory), 6 million inhabitants, 25% of the national groundwater reserve and 30% of the national surface water. Oued Sebou is…
Wetlands are a source of essential ecosystems services to humanity and are a major contributor to human well-being all over the world. Wetland conservation therefore plays a significant role in a number of important goals set out by international conventions…