ACAPI

ACAPI proposes to begin its construction for the Iberian Peninsula with appropriate geoservices (following international standards) that allow users to interact with such information. However, an e-laboratory on global change only could be useful when provided with coherent cartographic series of land cover, climate and socioeconomic layers. These coverages must be generated in a Big Data context (high spatio-temporal resolution), incorporating methodological improvements (coherent radiometric correction between various sensors that provide us with data, more intelligent classification methods, cross-use of satellite and climate information, etc.) but also raising important questions that can be answered in a rigorous way thanks to this enormous data bank. In this sense, and to be useful for the definition of future environmental policies, ACAPI conceives a model based on State variables that serve as a basis for Change variables on which we can define new metrics (speeds and accelerations of change) that help to Value the impacts of global change.