Join us for an online webinar, hosted by EUROPARC Atlantic Isles, on Wednesday 21 February, 11.55am to 13.30pm.

The UK rapidly needs to increase its peatland restoration efforts to meet climate change and biodiversity targets. A major part of the solution lies in increasing financial resources, but another route is for restoration practitioners to embrace digital technologies to improve the efficiency of restoration. Using remote sensing data and custom-built GIS models/scripts, it is now possible to automatically map erosional peatland features, such as hagg edges, in seconds/minutes compared to days/weeks of manual work. Combining automated outputs with digital twins then allows for an immersive quality checking process and restoration interventions to be decided on from the desk rather than via labour-intensive field surveys.

The North Pennines National Landscape is the second largest of the 38 National Landscapes (previously known as Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, AONBs) in England and Wales, containing approximately 900 km2 of peatland which has been historically drained and degraded. The North Pennines National Landscape team has been successfully restoring these peatlands since 2006.

Please book using the link https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3839597293371806810