SeaForest LIFE: WORK IN PROGRESS...
ISPRA, one of the partners of the SeaForest LIFE project, is processing high resolution Pleiades multispectral satellite images, to update the distribution of Posidonia oceanica grasslands in the parks involved in the project: La Maddalena Archipelago National Park, Asinara National Park and the Cilento National Park, Vallo di Diano and Alburni. The Pleiades satellite images were previously corrected with the radiometric correction algorithm of the water column, using the Lyzenga 1978 method "depth-invariant index". The mapping of the P. oceanica meadows was carried out with the classification software object oriented Ecognition.
The updated data on the distribution of the Posidonian meadows were compared with the mapping of marine phanerogams financed by the Ministry of the Environment and dating back to 1999. Both mapping datasets will be used to estimate the production of Blue Carbon and Carbonsink using the Invest model "Natural Capital Project”.
Asinara National Park: Color orthophoto year 2000 (WMS service National cartographic portal)
Asinara National Park: Pleiades Multispectral Satellite image 2018 (PANDA ESA service - Copernicus)
Asinara National Park: updated cartography regarding Posidonia oceanica meadows distribution
The new brochure of SEAFOREST LIFE is online!
The new brochure of SEAFOREST LIFE is available online! If you wish to download it, you can find it here.
SEAFOREST LIFE @ Slow Fish in Genoa on May 10th!
SEAFOREST LIFE partecipated at the event Slow Fish in Genoa, on the 10th of May!
Slow Fish is an event completely dedicated to the sea, its economy and sustainable fishing. The theme of the 2019 edition was "The Sea: the common good". Many topics related to the environment and climate change have been presented, and it is here that the SEA FOREST project has been inserted, with a space in which we have told our commitment to the protection of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica and the fight against climate change in act.
First monitoring visit of the SEAFOREST LIFE!
The first monitoring visit of the SEAFOREST project with the LIFE monitor Mascha Stroobant was held in Pratovecchio-Stia (AR) today, at the headquarters of the coordinating beneficiary DREAm Italia, in order to verify the progress and impact of the SEAFOREST LIFE project!
Collection of Posidonia fruits beached in Sardinia!
The coordinator of the project SEAFOREST LIFE, DREAm Italia - Progetti europei, together with the researchers Ispra - Higher Institute for Protection and Research ..., collect the first beached fruits of Posidonia oceanica in a beach of Stintino (SS)! This exceptional stranding of the fruits, in this period and in such large quantities, due to the rough conditions of the sea and the strong winds, is however not a good sign: if the plants in the sea lose their fruit, it means that the blooms will not be so abundant . All this is the intangible effect of climate change underway ...
Here are the so-called "sea olives" ... or the fruits of the Posidonia oceanica seagrass! this is why it is not an alga: it has flowers and fruits, unlike the algae that have none of this.
