The overall objective of Globwetland II is to facilitate the integration of remote sensing techniques into the conservation and management of wetlands. The project is intended to serve the needs of many wetland conservation practitioners from the wetlands managers up to the stakeholders of the Ramsar Convention.
The project team will apply three major instruments to achieve the ambitious objectives of GlobWetland II:
The active involvement of the user group into the project activities is a key issue in the project. It is absolutely crucial to meet the requirements of the user, to get ancillary and validation data and to support the dissemination and sustainability of the installed service.
The project is expected to bring an important breakthrough for the establishment of op-erational EO-based services that can support the inventory, mapping, monitoring and as-sessment of wetlands ecosystem.
The outcome of the project will provide recommendation, provide quantifiable service capacity indicators and will analyse the necessary conditions and prerequisites for a full integration of the GW-II system into user practices.
The flexible, transferable and user driven approach of GlobWetland II build the foundation for a wide scale deployment of a Global Wetlands Observing System within the Ramsar community.