New Geomatics Techniques for Bees Monitoring: The Beems Project

Bees provide essential pollination services to natural ecosystems and agricultural crops. However, bee populations, both wild and farmed, are in decline around the world. To better manage and restore bee populations, long-term monitoring programs are needed. Direct monitoring of bees is expensive, time-consuming and requires a high level of expertise. Therefore, economic indicators for bee diversity and community composition are essential. The BEEMS Project, a project of Scientific and Technological Cooperation between Italy and Israel (Scientific Track 2019), aims to evaluate the cost-benefit ratio of new aerial Geomatics techniques compared to classical terrestrial methods to collect biotic and abiotic indicators of diversity bees and the composition of their communities. This work aims to present the project's progress, focusing on the Geomatics techniques applied to collect environmental data and produce spatial information useful for the work's progress.

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