NordLaM

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NordLaM
ordic
andscape
onitoring
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NordLaM is a project of the
The Nordic Council of Ministers (NMR) Environment
Monitoring Data (NMD) working group
for the development of the use of image data in
Nordic landscape level terrestrial monitoring
(http//nordlam.dmu.dk)
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NordLaM Participation Nordic operational and
quasi-operational, national and regional,
landscape level monitoring and related programmes

- landscape / broad habitat monitoring e.g. 3Q,
SLÖ, small biotope monitoring programme
(DK) Danish terrestrial monitoring programme
(2004)
- national forest inventories Sweden, Finland,
Norway, Denmark
- land cover / land use monitoring
infrastructure projects e.g. Area Information
System (DK), SLICES (FI), Swedish Land Cover
Mapping
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NordLaM is a response to

• interest from the NMD for remote sensing
  projects

• requirements for application of remote sensing
  in ecology

• importance of large area monitoring of landscape

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NordLaM goals
For the participants to increase coordination
of Nordic use of images in landscape level
monitoring by involvement of remote sensing
specialists non-specialists in examination of
relevant remote sensing issues
For the Nordic Council of Ministers - to
strengthen trans-Nordic aspects of environmental
monitoring - to provide input towards future
policy and science programmes
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some working definitions
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Is NordLaM a remote sensing project ?
These remote sensing issues are seen as
particularly important within the field of
landscape level monitoring.
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NordLaM activities
increased coordination and method development
through
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NordLaM project history
1999 - recognition of the need for increased
Nordic co-ordination of the use of image data in
monitoring activities
- NordLaM workshop - getting to know the scope of
Nordic landscape level monitoring wider
European activities
2000 - TemaNord report of the current Nordic
landscape level monitoring programmes and related
activities
- identification of a set of working topics -
Themes - initial coordination and methods
investigation
2001 - a programme of discussions, small
workshops, methods demonstrations, creation of a
web-site, thematic reports
2003 - final report NMR publication of status
guidance for use of image data in Nordic
landscape level monitoring
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This NordLaM workshop
Image Data Indicators
one of the seven topics
To examine the ways in which information from
image data contributes to and interacts with the
requirements for outputs of landscape level
monitoring expressed in terms of environmental
and ecological indicators.
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NordLaM
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andscape
thank you http//nordlam.dmu.dk
onitoring