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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

  • Program: "Modelling and Scenarios of Biodiversity" flagship program, Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité

  • Project acronym: ESNET (submitted)

  • Project title: Ecosystem services networks futures for the Grenoble region

  • Duration: 2012 - 2014

  • Coordinator: Sandra Lavorel (LECA)

  • Other partners: LECA (UJF/CNRS), STEEP(INRIA/LJK) , EDDEN (UPMF/CNRS), CEMAGREF Grenoble, PACTE (UJF/CNRS), ERIC (Lyon 2/CNRS)

  • Abstract: Ecosystem services are underpinned by fundamental ecological properties and processes interacting with society, both through human dependence on these services, and the use and management of ecosystems. Our hypothesis is that ecosystem services can thus be modelled as networks of interacting ecological and societal processes, at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Our interdisciplinary research team proposes to explore this network hypothesis by assessing alternative futures of ecosystem services under combined scenarios of land-use and climate change for the Grenoble urban area in the French Alps. We will capitalize on existing statistical and mechanistic methods to build and integrate models of the relevant ecosystem services and land-use change. Our assessment will benefit from our detailed understanding of how biodiversity and different ecosystem services are interconnected. Trade-offs and synergies will be quantified by a specifically designed spatial multi-criteria analysis. Besides the urban area, we will focus on two case study sub-systems: the intensively farmed valley upstream of the city and a mixed landscape of forests and grasslands in a mountain range south of the city. As beneficiaries of ecosystem services, local and regional stakeholders will be involved in formulating the project working hypotheses and scenarios. These scenarios will build on current urban planning exercises by public authorities and research teams, and downscaling of land-use and climate change projections. We will engage stakeholders in the comparison of scenarios and the assessment of trade-offs in order to foster a dialog on development pathways and mitigation options.

In other respects, we are also strongly connected to the AETIC project. Initially we were not members of this project. But we follow it very closely and we already build on it via our collaboration with EDDEN laboratory and IDDRI. In particular our project of modeling and implementing transport-land use-energy integrated model for the city of Grenoble uses the data and analysis which are generating in the context of AETIC project.

  • Program: ANR project (Ville durable)

  • Project acronym: AETIC

  • Project title: Approche Economique Territoriale Intégrée pour le Climat

  • Duration: 2010 - 2013

  • Coordinator: Patrick Criqui (EDDEN)

  • Partners: UMR EDDEN, company ENERDATA Conseil, VEOLIA Environnement, CSTB (Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment), IDDRI (Sciences Politiques Paris), UMR PACTE.

  • Abstract: AETIC project aims to achieve three objectives: 1) to provide economic tools which allow to calculate and integrate costs and quantities useful for the territorial climate policy (PCL–"Plan Climat Local" ). 2) to provide an analysis of the PCL of Grenoble metropolitan area. 3) to define a consistent and innovative methodology for the definition of the PCL.

A project related to previous activities in computer vision of project members:

  • Program: ANR CONTINT

  • Project acronym: ROM

  • Project title: Realtime Onset Matchmoving

  • Duration: 2008 – 2011

  • Coordinator: Duran Duboi SA

  • Other partners: VORTEX (IRI Toulouse, France)

  • Abstract: This industrial R&D project concerns the generation of special effects for movie or other film productions. In particular, the goal is to provide tools for successful onset matchmoving, that is the estimation of camera trajectories during acquisition, with immediate pre-visualization of special effects superimposed on acquired sequences. Besides this real-time aspect of matchmoving, the project also addresses the problem of preparing a shooting, by analyzing if matchmoving with natural features is possible and if not, by instrumenting the scene with artificial markers in appropriate positions.