Spyros Christofilakos

German Aerospace Center (DLR) | DLR · Department: Photogrammetry and Image Analysis

Charismatic species drives decisions for the conservation of marine areas in the view of the coverage of the Natura 2000 sites in the European Union and other forms of Marine Protected Areas in Europe. However, when used solely, critical seascapes and habitats are systematically ignored and practically it can take decades to fulfill baseline needs...

Seagrasses offer multiple ecosystem services and play an important role in carbon-related climate change mitigation and adaptation. Their carbon sequestration and storage potential can support a variety of Multilateral Environmental Agreements like the Nationally Determined Contributions of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals....

Recent developments in remote sensing technology including cloud computing and globally available optical satellite archives have allowed access to vast volumes of data, computation and scalability for mapping seagrasses and their environment. , Yet, beyond the traditional accuracy assessment, there is a broader lack of knowledge and methods for th...

Seagrasses offer a wide range of ecosystem services, heralded as natural climate solutions, which are fundamental for sustaining the wellbeing and resilience of humans and the natural environment. These vegetated coastal foundation organisms are one of the world’s most productive ecosystems and play an important yet often overlooked and underassess...

The necessity of monitoring and expanding the existing Marine Protected Areas has led to vast and high-resolution map products which, even if they feature high accuracy, they lack information on the spatially explicit uncertainty of the habitat maps, a structural element in the agendas of policy makers and conservation managers for designation and...

Recent advances in remote sensing have enabled the global monitoring of Earth's biodiversity. These developments are providing global information on the extent, structure, function and services of different ecosystem types, and their benefits to the environment and humans. In contradiction with the advances, relevant uncertainty methods and informa...

Seagrasses provide globally significant yet underestimated ecosystem services to humans, economies and ecosystems, the so-called natural climate solutions. Climate change, eutrophication, coastal development and uneven protection levels are impacting the health and services of seagrasses. Contemporary approaches are needed to reverse this loss of o...

Blue carbon ecosystems like seagrasses, mangroves, and tidal flats provide globally significant yet vastly underestimated and impacted ecosystem services to humans, economies, sustainability, biodiversity and ecosystems, the so-called natural climate solutions (NCS). Accelerating climate change, biodiversity loss, eutrophication, coastal developmen...

Seagrasses are among the world’s most productive and biodiverse ecosystems, providing a plethora of additional ecosystem services like coastal protection and nursery grounds for fish, amongst other. These ecosystem services are central in national agendas yet countries lack the spatially explicit, high-confidence capacity and data to account and im...

Seagrasses are one of the world’s most productive ecosystems, playing an important role in climate change mitigation. They are vast natural carbon sinks which have important, yet largely overlooked and underestimated implications into national climate agendas like the Nationally Determined Contributions of the Paris Agreement. Precise knowledge of...