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The Ramsar Convention addresses the importance of developing and intensifying internationally coordinated actions for the conservation and wise use of wetlands. Achieving the main objectives of the Ramsar convention , which is to maintain the ecological character of wetlands and the ecosystem services they provide, requires having access to global, up-to-date and reliable information to complete national inventories and the ability to perform adequate monitoring activities, carry out assessments and put appropriate management and restoration plans in practice. In recent years, the use of satellite earth observations (EO) with innovative geo-spatial analyses has turned out to be a key tool and unique source of information for the Ramsar Convention (Mackay et al. 2009).
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Paganini, M. (2016). GlobWetland: ESA Earth Observation Project Series to Support Ramsar Convention. In: Finlayson, C., et al. The Wetland Book. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6172-8_311-3
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