Mapping biodiversity at very-high resolution in Europe

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05231v1
• Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2025 16:15:52 GMT
• Title: Mapping biodiversity at very-high resolution in Europe
• Authors: César Leblanc, Lukas Picek, Benjamin Deneu, Pierre Bonnet, Maximilien Servajean, Rémi Palard, Alexis Joly,
• Abstract summary: This paper describes a cascading multimodal pipeline for high-resolution biodiversity mapping across Europe.<n>The proposed pipeline first predicts species compositions using a deep-SDM, a multimodal model trained on remote sensing, climate time series, and species occurrence data at 50x50m resolution.<n>These predictions are then used to generate biodiversity indicator maps and classify habitats with Pl@ntBERT.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper describes a cascading multimodal pipeline for high-resolution biodiversity mapping across Europe, integrating species distribution modeling, biodiversity indicators, and habitat classification. The proposed pipeline first predicts species compositions using a deep-SDM, a multimodal model trained on remote sensing, climate time series, and species occurrence data at 50x50m resolution. These predictions are then used to generate biodiversity indicator maps and classify habitats with Pl@ntBERT, a transformer-based LLM designed for species-to-habitat mapping. With this approach, continental-scale species distribution maps, biodiversity indicator maps, and habitat maps are produced, providing fine-grained ecological insights. Unlike traditional methods, this framework enables joint modeling of interspecies dependencies, bias-aware training with heterogeneous presence-absence data, and large-scale inference from multi-source remote sensing inputs.

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