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The InCoNaDa project addresses the issues related to food and natural resources. Assessment and monitoring of natural resources require detailed and geospatial information on the land cover (LC), land use (LU) and changes. LCLU information is essential for a broad range of users and applications. It is also essential for various reporting obligations, i.e. counting greenhouse gas emissions and removal from LULUCF, climate mitigation, greening of CAP, Biodiversity Conservation, Urban Agenda and plans for the upcoming Energy Union. The main goal of InCoNaDa is to improve the user uptake of LCLU information derived from the integration of Copernicus Land Monitoring service (CLMS) and national databases. This will be achieved through a) practical verification of the EAGLE concept based on interlinking LCLU information and other landscape characteristics (CH) available at the country level into one model called “linked data”, b) development of the web-based application enabling to query the enhanced LCLU database as well as to integrate and extract statistics from the CLMS adjusted to user needs, c) assessment of usefulness of enhanced LCLU database, web application and CLMS products for decision makers, reporting obligations in natural resources monitoring, urban and spatial planning, agricultural management and reporting GHG emissions and removals from LULUCF in Poland and Norway. The ambition of InCoNaDa is to exchange knowledge, experience and competency in order to improve the capabilities among domain experts in both countries. We also sincerely believe that Poland and Norway, through this project, together can assist the European Environment Agency and the Copernicus program in their continuous efforts to ensure that CLMS is an important contribution to national and local users through downstream services.Summary of project results
The main goal of the project was to improve the user uptake of land cover (LC) and land use (LU) information derived from the integration of Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) and national databases.
During the research, a methodology for land cover classification and land cover change detection based on Sentinel-2 satellite data from the study areas in Poland and Norway was developed. A web application was created to integrate land cover, land use and land characteristics data from CLMS and national databases for Poland. The needs of spatial and urban planning in terms of LCLU geospatial information were also investigated and the potential of CLMS products for monitoring the condition of agricultural landscapes in Poland and Norway (wetlands and changes in these ecosystems) as well as for reporting greenhouse gas emissions and removals in the land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector was analysed.
The outcomes of the project were presented at the national and international conferences, seminars and published in scientific articles. The results of the analysis of CLMS products in a form of study cases were shared with the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the CLMS data providers.
The results of this project increased awareness of the availability, accuracy and potential of Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) products in different domains. A set of case studies conducted within the project showed how and whether the data can support the needs of spatial planning, monitoring of agriculture and the environment as well as reporting emissions and removals from the LULUCF sector. The InCoNaDa application developed within the project helps facilitate users’ assimilation of information on land cover, land use and land characteristics in Poland.
Summary of bilateral results
The Polish-Norwegian collaboration lead to the improved knowledge and understanding of the needs for the accurate and reliable data on land cover, land use and land characteristics and challenges related to the user uptake of the Copernicus products.