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Presentation of the
GlobWetland II
project
1 Background and Heritage ................................................................................................ 1

2 Objectives of the GlobWetland II project ....................................................................... 2
3 GlobWetland II partnership ............................................................................................. 3
4 GlobWetland II products .................................................................................................. 5
5 Long Term Sustainability ................................................................................................. 9
6 Project Consortium .......................................................................................................... 9
7 Challenges and long term Perspectives ......................................................................... 10
1 Background and Heritage

The overall objective of the Ramsar Convention is the conservation and wise use of wet-
lands by national actions and international cooperation as means to achieving sustainable
development. This complex and challenging task requires national, local and international
bodies involved in the implementation of the convention to rely on suitable geo-
information to better understand wetland areas, complete national inventories, perform
monitoring activities, carry out assessments and put in practice suitable management
plans based on up to date and reliable information.
Figure 1-1 Wetland Lake Ichkeul Tunisia (left), Land Cover map example GlobWetland I (right)
In the recent years, the use of satellite EO applications within innovative geo-spatial anal-
ysis has turned out to be a key tool and unique information source to support the environ-
mental community in different application domains, including wetlands conservation and
management. More specifically, existing and future EO technology can play an important
role in obtaining suitable information to support the mapping and inventory of wetlands as
a basis for management-oriented assessment and monitoring.
In this context, the European Space Agency in collaboration with the Ramsar Secretariat
launched in 2003 the GlobWetland I project in order to demonstrate the current capabili-
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ties of EO applications to support inventorying, monitoring, assessment of wetlands eco-

systems. The project was carried out from 2003 to 2008 in close collaboration with several
regional, national and local conservation authorities and wetland managers, involving 52
different wetlands across 21 countries on four continents. This large range of wetlands
conservations agencies and wetland sites provided an excellent test bed to assess the po-
tential of EO technology to be applied in different conditions.
The main conclusion of the GlobWetland I project was that EO technology can be a cost-
effective and very productive tool to support the Ramsar Convention. The technology is
now ready and mature enough for a wide uptake in a certain number of areas. The Scien-
tific and Technical Review Panel of the Ramsar Convention sees huge value for all Con-
tracting Parties involved in the implementation of the Convention at all scales from global
to regional, national and local scales and has strongly recommended the EO use within the
Community. The European Space Agency has therefore decided to continue supporting this
effort, in close collaboration with the Ramsar Secretariat and with its Scientific and Tech-
nical Review Panel. The first and major continuation of GlobWetland I is the GlobWetland
II project. The ongoing project GlobWetland II started in January 2010 and will be finished
in summer 2012 in order to present the outcome of the project at the next Ramsar confer-
ence of the Parties in Romania (COP11).
Figure 1-2 The RAMSAR wetland Azraq from space (1975 left, 2005 right) and from the ground (per-
manently flooded part middle)
The success of bringing EO applications within the Ramsar community depends on the ca-
pability of both the Earth Observation and the conservation communities to work together
in order to develop jointly cost-effective applications that respond at best to the require-
ments of the responsible conservation authorities.
2 Objectives of the GlobWetland II project

The overarching objective of the GlobWetland II project is to contribute to the set up of a
Global Wetlands Observing System (G-WOS) as per the strategy 1.2 of the Ramsar Strategic
Plan 2009-2015, Resolution X.1, recently adopted at the 10th meeting of the Conference
of the Parties (COP-10) of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, in Changwon, South Korea.
The GlobWetland II project aims principally at developing a G-WOS pilot information sys-
tem, also called the GlobWetland II information system.
The system includes maps and system software. The GW-II system software consist of 3
components, (1) a remote sensing component (2) a GIS component and (3) a Web-GIS
component
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The system software capability is being demonstrated through the production of a number
of wetlands related geo-information maps and indicators, over 200 wetland sites and sur-
rounding areas, which have been selected over the coastal catchment areas of the South-
ern and Eastern part of the Mediterranean basin, extending from Morocco to Syria (less
than 100 km from the coastline).
Figure 2-1 Location of wetlands - candidates for the Wetland Information Maps and Indicator (WIMI)
production in GlobWetland II (Source of the background image: Google Earth)
3 GlobWetland II partnership
The GlobWetland II project is developing the G-WOS pilot system in a regional context
through a close partnership with the RAMSAR secretariat, the MedWet Secretariat and its
Mediterranean Wetlands Observatory (MWO) hosted by the Tour du Valat (TdV), with the
Ramsar Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP), and in particular with the user or-
ganisations in the countries i.e. the Ramsar/MedWet National Focal Points (NFP) and
supporting conservation agencies of the countries.
The GlobWetland II project is intended to serve the needs of many wetlands conservation
practitioners from the wetlands managers up to the stakeholders of the Ramsar Conven-
tion. The targeted user communities of the project are the Ramsar Administrative Authori-
ties and National Focal Points of the subject countries and their supporting conservation
agencies, the MedWet partnership and its MWO, the international organisations member of
the Ramsar STRP, inter-governmental environmental organisations, international environ-
mental and conservation NPOs/NGOs, and partnerships of conservation organisations.
The Partner organisations are committed to provide the following contribution to the
GlobWetland II project:
° The Tour du Valat, as host of the MWO coordination unit, will act as the user fed-
erator of the project.
° The Ramsar STRP will ensure that the GlobWetland II project is in line with the ob-
jectives of the Ramsar Convention and the Global Wetland Observing System (G-
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WOS). The GW-II project will also respond to the specific needs of the Convention
to have some Ramsar Indicators of effectiveness.
° The European Environment Agency will bring its expertise in Land Use / Land Cover
mapping for the product "Inventory of Wetlands", one of the GW-II demonstration
products to be produced at 1:50,000 scale, and in the wetland classification of the
Corine Land Cover (CLC).
The User organisations, are contributing by undertaking a certain number of tasks:

° Advising the project team in the consolidation of the user requirements during the
initial phase of the project (e.g. definition of important wetland locations, legends
for the map production, change mapping and indicator calculation, software and
training requirements by answering questionnaires);
° Facilitating access to existing data (e.g. wetlands inventory, in-situ data on the se-
lected sites, field surveys) that may be useful for the project;
Figure 3-1 GlobWetland II User meetings (PreQAR Meeting in Jordan Nov. 2011 left, Workshop1 /
CDR at ESRIN, Italy Dec. 2010 right)
° Contributing to the validation of the wetland geo-information maps and indicators;

° Attending the training on the GlobWetland II Information System, should the sys-
tem be installed in their organisation, or in a partner agency, and testing the sys-
tem software;
° Performing an evaluation (assessment of the usability and quality) of the delivered
products (wetland geo-information maps and indicators) and software;
° Attending project workshops and meetings;
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The European Space Agency will provide

through GlobWetland II the partner and user
organisations with a free access to the project
documentation, to the final wetland geo-
information products (maps and indicators) and
to the GlobWetland II information software.
The partner and user organisations, on their
side, will be providing support to the project
tasks, in particular in access to ancillary and
validation data.
Figure 3-2 Partnership and user cooperation
4 GlobWetland II products
The GlobWetland II Maps and Indicators
The first objective of the GlobWetland II mapping activities is the production of Wetland
Information Maps and Indicators (WIMI) for 3 points in time (1975-76, 1990-91, 2005), tak-
ing full advantage of the time series of Landsat data (MSS, TM and ETM). The maps will be
produced at a geographical scale of 1:50.000.
Figure 4-1 Evolution of the Ichkeul lake from 1972, 1987 to 2000 using Landsat satellite images
3 types of geo-information maps will be produced at a scale of 1 : 50.000 and 4 types of

wetland indicators.
The Wetland Information Maps include:

° Land Use / Land Cover maps, including wetland typologies;
° Change detection maps for long-term change and trends analysis;
° Water cycle maps for the analysis of the annual variations of the water table.
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Figure 4-2 Land cover Land Use classification map Azraq, Change map Ichkeul, Water Cycle Regime
map Merja Zerga
The Land Use Land Cover (LULC) maps provide a detailed classification of all land parcels
within wetland sites. The LULC maps use a standardized classification scheme based on
the Corine Land Cover system (EC, 1993), which has been adapted to incorporate the Ram-
sar wetlands classification system. The thematic information provided in the LULC maps
follows a 5 level nomenclature where the fist level distinguishes between water, natural
areas and artificial surfaces and the most detailed levels include the single wetland typol-
ogies defined by the Ramsar Convention.
The Change Detection maps provide historical comparisons of the land use and the land
cover in wetlands and their surrounding areas between two reference dates. They provide
synoptic views of the main changes that occurred in the catchments’ areas due to natural
and anthropogenic factors. EO data archives, which include imagery acquired from the
70s, provide a unique source of information to assess the historical evolution of wetlands
worldwide. Change analysis allows also to identify threats affecting the wetlands and to
assess the impacts on the ecosystem over time.
Figure 4-3 The GW-II workflow, from satellite images … through image segmentation … to wetland
land cover classification (Sebkha d’Oran, Algeria)
The Water Cycle Regime (WCR) maps provide an overview of the annual variations of the
water table over the wetland sites. The WCR maps show the minimum and maximum wa-
ter extent of the water table, including permanent water bodies and seasonally inundated
vegetation. This product, when generated over a full hydrological year, provides wetland
managers with a unique monitoring capacity to characterise the water cycle of wetlands
and identify variations that may affect the overall ecosystem.
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The Wetland Indicators include:

° Change in wetland area (difference of the wetland surface between two periods)
° Inundation of the ecosystem (% of non-permanently and permanently flooded);
° Change due to agriculture and urbanization (total surface that has changed to ur-
ban / artificial classes between two periods / total surface that has changed to ag-
ricultural classes between two periods)
° Status and trends of wetland threats (urbanization and agriculture taken into ac-
count as threats, normalized value to ensure comparability)
A second objective of the GlobWetland II project is to analyse 5 of the 200 wetland sites
on a more detailed scale (1:5,000 scale). This requires the production of Land Use / Land
Cover maps with more complex and detailed wetland typologies. This will be done using
very high spatial resolution (VHR) optical images. These maps will be used principally to
analyse the status, drivers and pressures of the 5 wetland areas. A second usage of the
VHR optical images, and derived maps, is to be used as additional validation data sets for
the wetland related geo-information maps and indicators..
A third objective of GW-II is to contribute to help the Contracting Parties completing their
national wetland inventories and assessing the trends of wetlands inventories across 3
points in time (1975-76, 1990-91, 2005-2006). This wetland inventory will be experiment-
ed over a limited geographical area and only as a demonstration exercise to validate the
inventory methodology. The inventory will be based on annual time series of Landsat im-
ages.
Map production
° 200 Wetland Information Maps
and Indicators (WIMI) derived
from Landsat (acquisition
dates: 1975/76, 1990/91,
2005/06)
° Inventory and delineation
maps for different catchment
areas derived from Landsat
° Very High Resolution Maps
(VHR) for detailed mapping
and validation
° Radar (SAR) and Sentinel2 (S2)
demonstration
Figure 4-4 GlobWetland II maps
SAR satellites are able to deliver continuously cloud free satellite images. To demonstrate
the transferability of the developed methods to other frequently clouded areas in the
world the SAR adequacy for mapping water tables will be demonstrated on 5 wetlands se-
lected amongst the 200 wetlands that will be analysed at 1:50,000 scale and where “Land-
sat derived” water cycle maps will be produced.
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To demonstrate the transferability of the system also to future satellite systems, the ade-
quacy of the future Sentinel 2 satellite (to be launched at the end of 2013) will be demon-
strated.
The GlobWetland II system software
The GW-II system software consists of 3 components,

(1) a remote sensing component for tasks related to satellite image pre-processing,
Land Use / Land Cover classification, change detection, etc.
(2) GIS component e.g. for the indicator computation and
(3) a Web-GIS component for the distribution of the maps and information data that
have been produced during the project
All software tools for the map production and indicator calculation are integrated into an
ArcGIS GlobWetland Toolbox.
The ArcGIS integrated GlobWetland toolbox comprises a combination of available ArcGIS
functions and newly developed software tools like new pre-processing functions for radio-
metric adaptation and cloud detection, new functions for segmentation and segment
based supervised classification and new functions for change detection.
Figure 4-5 ArcGIS integrated GlobWetland II Toolbox
The GlobWetland II software toolbox is

• Easy to use;
• Cost effective;
• Fully embedded into the ArcGIS environment;
• Delivered with a tutorial on the concept and wide use of GW-II software toolbox
and products;
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• On-site installation with user training, capacity building support and technical as-
sistance;
5 Long Term Sustainability

The GlobWetland II project will be organised along the “Develop-Operate-Transfer” model
which can be summarised as follows:
° The project consortium is developing the GlobWetland II Information System on the

basis of the user requirements that have been consolidated during the first phase of
the project, in close collaboration with the partner and user organisations.
° The project consortium is operating the GlobWet-
land II Information System, producing a number of
pilot products (wetland geo-information maps and
indicators on wetland status and trends) on a 200
wetland sites that have been selected by the part-
ner and user organisations.
° The GlobWetland II Information System - and the
database including satellite images – will be trans-
ferred and installed in a number of hosting institu-
tions that have been designated by the Ram-
sar/MedWet National Focal Points. The installation
of the GlobWetland II software package at the
hosting organisations will include training and ca-
pacity building sessions.
°
The hosting institutions, on behalf of the Ram-
sar/MedWet National Focal Points, will operate the
GlobWetland II Information System and continue the work initiated during the Glob-
Wetland II project.
6 Project Consortium
The GW-II consortium is built around the following partners:
1. Jena-Optronik GmbH (Germany), Prime Contractor

2. KEYOBS (Belgium), Sub Contractor
3. DLR DFD (Germany), Sub Contractor
4. EKBY (Greece), Sub Contractor
5. TerraSphere (Netherlands), Sub Contractor
6. I-MAGE CONSULT (Belgium), Sub Contractor
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The multi-disciplinary, complementary project team is covering all fields of expertise to

conduct the work: experts in Land Use / Land Cover Mapping, in change detection, in wet-
lands ecosystems, in system development and in training. The technical and scientific
knowledge on the key and most challenging domains are very well covered.
Contact:
Kathrin Weise |JENOPTIK, Jena-Optronik GmbH, Pruessingsrarsse 41, 07747 Jena | Phone
+49 3641 200160 | Fax +49 3641 200220 | email kathrin.weise@jena-optronik.de
7 Challenges and long term Perspectives

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.
Figure 7-1 Wetland sunsets
The project team will apply three major instruments to achieve the ambitious objectives
of GlobWetland II:
° the active involvement of partner and user organisations,
° the delivery of the GlobWetland II software with all the maps and indicators pro-
duced during the project, together with the satellite imagery,
° and capacity building through the organisation of training sessions so as to allow
the continuation of the wetland mapping activities in an autonomous way by the
national focal points
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 oper-
ational EO-based services that can support the inventory, mapping, monitoring and as-
sessment of wetlands ecosystem.
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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.

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1 Background and Heritage ................................................................................................ 1

1 Background and Heritage

ties of EO applications to support inventorying, monitoring, assessment of wetlands eco-

2 Objectives of the GlobWetland II project

The User organisations, are contributing by undertaking a certain number of tasks:

° Contributing to the validation of the wetland geo-information maps and indicators;

The European Space Agency will provide

Figure 3-2 Partnership and user cooperation

3 types of geo-information maps will be produced at a scale of 1 : 50.000 and 4 types of

The Wetland Information Maps include:

The Wetland Indicators include:

Figure 4-4 GlobWetland II maps

The GlobWetland II system software

The GW-II system software consists of 3 components,

Figure 4-5 ArcGIS integrated GlobWetland II Toolbox

The GlobWetland II software toolbox is

5 Long Term Sustainability

° The project consortium is developing the GlobWetland II Information System on the

1. Jena-Optronik GmbH (Germany), Prime Contractor

The multi-disciplinary, complementary project team is covering all fields of expertise to

7 Challenges and long term Perspectives

Figure 7-1 Wetland sunsets

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