连接地球观测与生态保护：PEOPLE-ECCO平台助力NGO监测生态系统
在全球生态保护与修复行动中，非政府组织（NGO）扮演着关键角色。然而，实践导向的保护团体面临一个主要障碍：如何在大范围地理区域内评估其管理活动的实际影响。传统的监测方法依赖劳动密集的地面调查，难以规模化持续开展。虽然Copernicus Sentinel-2等卫星地球观测数据提供了大范围覆盖和长期时间序列，但有效利用这些数据需要复杂的领域知识、空间数据处理能力和专业的数据处理技能。 为此，欧洲空间局（ESA）在其EO4Society计划下资助了PEOPLE-ECCO项目（通过地球观测解决方案、能力建设和协同设计增强生态系统保护）。该项目由特文特大学（ITC）牵头，联合52°North、Hatfield Consultants和DHI Consulting等技术及领域合作伙伴，以及来自四大洲的六家关键NGO“早期采用者”，共同致力于弥合空间基础设施与地面物种保护之间的差距。
项目通过动手实践的生活实验室（如BioSpace25会议）和针对性的区域协同设计研讨会（如吉隆坡和普罗夫迪夫），让非技术利益相关者与技术开发人员直接合作，共同设计系统需求、优化工作流程并塑造用户界面。作为软件架构和平台工程负责人，52°North设计、实现并部署了技术基础。
团队开发了开源的PEOPLE-ECCO平台，以满足GIS专业人员、领域专家和公众利益相关者的需求。该平台的核心挑战在于：如何构建一个可访问的云原生Web平台，将复杂的卫星地球观测数据转化为直观的环境指标和可操作的度量，供非技术保护专家使用。
PEOPLE-ECCO项目展示了开源软件、云原生标准和协同设计如何释放卫星数据在生态系统保护中的潜力。通过结合openEO云处理、Docker化的CWL工作流和直观的Web平台，该项目为NGO提供了一套现代且可扩展的工具集，支持生态系统的监测、修复和保护。所有平台组件、算法和演示输出均在PEOPLE-ECCO下开发，并开源免费向更广泛的社区开放。
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原文摘要
Connecting Earth Observation and Ecosystem Protection
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are key actors in the conservation and restoration of ecosystems worldwide. However, practice-oriented conservation groups face a major hurdle: . Traditional monitoring methods rely on labor-intensive on-the-ground surveys, which are difficult to sustain at scale. While satellite Earth Observation (EO) data, such as Copernicus Sentinel-2, offer wide-scale coverage and long-term time series, using them effectively requires complex domain knowledge, spatial data handling, and specialized data processing skills.evaluating the real-world impact of their management activities over large geographic areas This week’s challenge is: How can we build an accessible, cloud-native web platform that transforms complex satellite Earth Observation data into intuitive environmental indicators and actionable metrics for non-technical conservation experts? To bridge the gap between space infrastructure and ground-level species conservation, the European Space Agency (ESA) funded the (Enhancing Ecosystems Conservation through Earth Observation Solutions, Capacity Development and Co-design) project under its . Led by the , the consortium brings together technical and domain partners – , , and – alongside six key NGO “Early Adopters” across four continents:PEOPLE-ECCOEO4Society programUniversity of Twente (ITC)52°NorthHatfield ConsultantsDHI Consulting Through hands-on (such as at ) and targeted regional co-design workshops (e.g., in Kuala Lumpur and Plovdiv), these non-technical stakeholders worked directly alongside the technical developers to co-design the system requirements, refine workflows, and shape the user interfaces.Living LabsBioSpace25 conference As the software architecture and platform engineering lead, 52°North designed, implemented and deployed the technical foundation. We also developed the open-source to address the needs of GIS professionals, domain specialists, and public stakeholders:PEOPLE-ECCO Platform The PEOPLE-ECCO pro