Biodiversa+ Habitat Pilot: Technical Supplement to Czech Report

This repository contains scripts and workflows developed for the Biodiversa+ Habitat pilot. It serves as a technical supplement to the Biodiversa+ Habitat Pilot Czech Report (January 2026), documenting Remote Sensing methods for monitoring wetland and grassland ecosystems in the Czechia.

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Ownership & Attribution

Ownership: All scripts and methodologies are the property of the Habitat pilot project team.

• Algorithms: Inundation mapping based on Jussila et al. (2024) and Lefebvre et al. (2019).
• Data: Sentinel-2 imagery and EU Grassland Watch (EUGW) products.
• Project Role: Technical implementation, local optimization, and validation (Třeboňsko PLA and Milovice-Mladá).

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Subtasks Overview

1. Inundation mapping

Implementation and testing of binary decision trees for flooded area detection using Sentinel-2 data.

• Platform: Google Earth Engine (JavaScript API).

2. Indicators for Habitat condition monitoring

Extension of static inundation mapping into a dynamic monitoring pipeline for long-term trends.

• Platform: R (utilizing openEO).

3. EU Grassland Watch

Validation of Land Cover (LC) and GrasslandType (GT) components (EUNIS 2021 Level 2).

• Platform: R and Jupyter Notebooks.

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Contacts

For technical questions regarding the implementation and workflows, please contact:

• Vít Ježek – @jezekvi-github-link
• Jakub Rataj – @zbubster-github-link