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VITO (Belgium)

VITO is the prime contractor of the project and responsible for General Project Management. 

VITO is a leading European independent research and technology organization in the areas of cleantech and sustainable development, elaborating solutions for the large societal challenges of today. VITO has more than 1300 employees and focuses on five research programs: sustainable chemistry, energy, health, materials management and land use. The Land Use research program develops products and services to better manage, predict and control our scarce natural resources.
The VITO Remote Sensing unit has renowned expertise on measuring and monitoring land use and several related aspects. It offers expertise, knowledge, data, services and solutions in EO and large-scale geospatial data processing to extract useful information from remote sensing. This is used for diverse applications such as agriculture, urbanization, vegetation, water & coast, climate, security and infrastructure.

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iDiv (Germany)

iDIV is core partner of the project and responsible for scientific soundness of the solution, as Principle Investigator (PI). 
The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) is a central research institution of Leipzig University. iDiv is an excellence center funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). With over 450 employees of 40 nationalities, iDiv leads state-of-the-art and integrative research on biodiversity sustainability. It tackles different facets of biodiversity, including species, genetic, and functional diversity, interactions between species and people, and ecosystem composition, change, and health.