SERENA EJPSOIL IE WEXFORD SOIL SEALING

<p>The internal EJP SOIL project SERENA contributed to the evaluation of soil multifunctionality aiming at providing assessment tools for land planning and soil policies at different scales. By co-working with relevant stakeholders, the project provided co-developed indicators and associated cookbooks to assess and map them, to report both on soil degradation, soil-based ecosystem services and their bundles, under actual conditions and for climate and land-use changes, at the regional, national, and European scales.</p> <p><span>We conducted an analysis using the Level 1 version of the soil-sealing cookbook on Sentinel 2 tiles 29UPU and 29UPT, with a reference year of 2019. For this analysis, we used National Orthophotos and Google Satellite images to confirm/deny potential changes in soil sealing identified by cookbook methodology. The 2018 Copernicus Land Monitoring Service High Resolution Layer Imperviousness served as the baseline for soil sealing.</span></p>