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Bulletin of the LifeWatch Wallonia-Brussels project available online

This first issue of the bulletin summarizes three land surface dynamics during the year 2013 in Europe: the snow, the vegetation phenology and the fires extent.
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All this information can be downloaded freely from the web portal www.uclouvain.be/lifewatch. This data is regularly updated.

LifeWatch Wallonia-Brussels is one of the Belgian contributions to the European Research Infrastructure Consortium for biodiversity and ecosystem research (LifeWatch). It is funded by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.

The bulletin is available through www.lifewatch.be/remote-sensing.

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