Колдонуучу:Horizon Call

Dear Kadyr,

Here is a short summary of our plan for this Horizon call.

This is the call link:

HORIZON-CL6-2024-BIODIV-01-2: Digital for nature

References Hirizon Program [1] Files: 1. Mail from Miklos in mobi 2. Mail from Miklos in pdf

Our running title: The AI of Nature

We are aiming to create a proposal on Area A: "data harvesting, analysis and interoperability solutions... "

PLAN - in a nutshell (the call text indicates three topics to be covered)

A quote from the call: "A better monitoring (in terms of the number of species and habitats, more exhaustive territory coverage, more frequent in time, more accurate and cost-effective) of biodiversity in the EU by high-throughput methods (for example environmental DNA, sound/image/spectral analysis, lidar, usage of mobile platforms, space technologies, etc.), leading to a better implementation of the nature directives."

Our initiatives in this sub-topic: - AI-based species distribution modelling using satellite / orthophoto / lidar image processing: - Automatic camera image processing - For species distribution modelling and other monitoring purposes: - Automatic sound analysis... :

        Using freely available background data. Fine-tuning of monitors after fast processing. Reactive monitoring support, which tracks changes and thus can support planning.

A quote from the call: "A better understanding of the state of nature and of the drivers of biodiversity loss (linked to direct human activity, to climate change, etc…) and of the state of conservation of nature through a better usage of existing data, and through the bridging of data gaps in order to support the implementation of the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 and therefore to reverse biodiversity loss and to restore and protect ecosystems."

Our initiatives in this sub-topic:

- Data processing pipelines for existing databases / data sources to create a self maintained but coherent system to help people to process their data and share the processed results.

A quote from the call: "A more complete view of the state of nature and its evolution which is needed to support policy implementation and policy making, including the Member States’ reporting obligations, supporting the definition and implementation of prevention and restoration measures and the monitoring of the achievement of their objectives, the extension of protected areas, the monitoring of invasive alien species, and the implementation of Nature based solutions and the assessment of their performance."

Our initiatives in this sub-topic:

- Leveraging existing policy implementation support tools in OpenBioMaps, such as Natura2000 data management, writing N2000 target documents, monitoring and detecting data changes. Simplified overview of raw datasets: producing basic statistics and summaries. Feedback and opinion data management. Data mining/harversting from complex text documents. Development of new tools to integrate with other existing systems or to establish links between systems for the purposes described above. Development of tools to enable a consistent representation of States, Results and Plans (e.g. in a GIS environment or data query API)

Our novel and breakthrough idea: Instead of a new centralised service system, we plan to create a service network of individual nodes focused on data collection, analysis and interoperability.

The problem with centralised databases is that they are not flexible enough to keep track of local needs and are therefore too time and energy-consuming to use, making them not profitable for users.

Taking these problems into account, we propose a system that provides users with services that can be used in their daily practice and thus encourages users to use the system. It does this by being scalable at multiple levels and thus sufficiently flexible at the user level to serve individual needs, but also capable of creating coherent interoperable large scale structures.

Multi-layer scalability is addressed by creating a network of self-hosted nodes (individually maintained by different institutions) that form a new database layer at the highest level, thus providing the expected single access point for services, while retaining the ability to serve locally interested needs with local access points. It establishes a living link between the entire data management process from field data collection to data interpretation and delivery.

My vision is to create a global network of services, with nodes set up to serve local needs, support data collection and processing, and provide large-scale data flows on demand. In addition, they can also efficiently share monitoring and data analysis recipes to support intensive data use.

We are working on implementing this independently of this call for proposal! This is the OpenBioMaps project more or less.

A consortium is being formed with Hungary, Germany, Lithuania, Spain and potentially other countries: Software developers, biologists, agronomists, policy makers, conservationists.... I don't know at the moment how you could get involved, but if nothing else, as a stakeholder, we would first apply a data processing method to you and test its usability.

The deadline is 20, Februar 2024.

Best regards, Miklós