1. Mapping Ecosystem Services - The ESM App and the New MapNat
Jörg Priess
OpenNESS-CANA Minisymposium, Analandia,

2. Why Map & Measure Ecosystem Services ?
Contribute to maintain & restore ecosystems providing essential services (ESS), on which livelihoods and human wellbeing are based.
Increase knowledge about ESS provision (supply) and their use (demand).
Information about ESS use needed for:
ESS-related research (scientific community)
Decision support (policy & planning)
Environmental information & education (citizens, teachers, scientists)

3. ESS-concept beyond Science
ESS increasingly applied in policy, legislation, planning
Aichi targets on ecosystem services (agreed at COP10, Nagoya, 10/2010)
Strategic goal D:
Enhance the benefits to all from biodiversity and ecosystem services
Target 14:
By 2020, ecosystems that provide essential services, including services related to water, and contribute to health, livelihoods and well-being, are restored and safeguarded, taking into account the needs of women, indigenous and local communities, and the poor and vulnerable
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – IPBES Governments have agreed on four main functions of IPBES:
knowledge generation,
assessments of knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem services (regional, sub-regional, global and thematic),
policy support by identifying policy-relevant tools and methodologies and
capacity building to improve the science-policy interface.

4. Concepts and Tools for Mapping & Measuring ESS
Sources:
CCI and BirdLife International (2011) Measuring and monitoring ecosystem services at the site scale. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Conservation Initiative and BirdLife International.

5. Mapping and Reporting ES
Key objectives of the ESM App
Direct mapping of the use (= flow) of ecosystem services = demand perspective  optionally potential supply perspective
Focus on cultural services
Tool making use of everyday personal devices and their technical features, namely smartphones / tablets
Applicable in citizen science and research

6. Mapping and Reporting ES
Interested citizens and/or scientists mapping ES
Locate ES via GPS user feedback: visualisation
Submit / retrieve
Results
Users
Science - Decision makers - Public

7. Classification of ES – adapted from CICES v4.3
ESM-App: all ecosystem services
Provisioning – regulating - cultural
Source:Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services CICES v 4.3 modified & expanded (URL: )

8. Classification of ES – adapted from CICES v4.3
MapNat-App: Selected ecosystem services
Focus on cultural ESS & dis-services Selected provisioning & regulating ESS
Source:Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services CICES v 4.3 modified & expanded (URL: )

9. Current Version of the ESM-App1 2 3
Current Version of the ESM-App

10. Current Version of the ESM-App1 2 3
Map ES:
select land use & ES  rank  submit

11. Current Version of the ESM-App1 2 3
Map ES:
select land use & ES  rank  submit
„Self“ flag
Current Version of the ESM-App
User benefits:
locate interesting ES, check own mapping

12. Current Version of the ESM-App1 2 3
Map ES:
select land use & ES  rank  submit
Provide additional information,
Export mapped ES, report bugs / App-crash
User benefits:
locate interesting ES, check own mapping
„Self“ flag
Current Version of the ESM-App

13. MapNat: New and Improved Features
All of them recommended / requested by test-users of ESM-App
New Help Screens
Optional/permantent
Startscreen
New ICON
Short Intro to MapNat
New Ecosystem Service List
NEW colors to group ES
Focus on cultural ES, to ensure demand perspective
NEW dis-services included
New Mapping Options
GPS plus free points- areas-lines on the map

14. MapNat: New and Improved Features 2
All of them recommended / requested by test-users of ESM-App
New Additional Options
New transport to ESS use
Old Land use type or Ecosystem of ESS use
NEW questions valuation & frequency of visit
NEW free comment
New Summary Page
NEW review all selections
NEW add a photo
New Settings Options
New option to register
Old register home location
Old download and options
Old crash report to developer

15. Wrap Up – Current & Potential Uses of ESM App
Users ESM App ESS information
Provide limited user feedback
Generate new knowledge via mapping (and valuing) ESS
Provide information supporting ESS-science and -education

16. Obrigado para prestar atenção
place, date
Obrigado para
prestar atenção
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© J. Priess

17. Retrieval of results
Via WEB GUI from the server or via export of own records from smartphone

18. ESM App - Technical Information
Smartphone
Android operating system (2.X; better 4.X)
4 MB free space
GPS
internet access
adaptable lists for ESS and ecosystems
Webserver
URL: ess-mapping.org
SQL Database
Data retrieval GUI
Language management
ToDos
WebGis
Quality control of data
data evaluation methods
links to other ES-related databases
Communication
Structured packages for 1 - n ESS
Online OR offline
Lan, wLan, bluetooth
Independent of languages

19. Wrap Up – Current & Potential Uses of ESM App
Suggestions of ESM-App test-users for additional functionalities of next version:
Simplify app structure and terminology
More options to map ESS (areas, tracks)
Options to submit comments and images
Valuation of ESS
Questions & answers
Environmental quiz
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