The monitoring of environment changes in ecosystems at risk will be supervised by the High Resolution Environmental Change Horizontal Integration Team of which the specific objectives are:

1. To provide support to EDEN partners and advice on land-cover and land-use characteristics of relevance to diseases under study, i.e. habitat type, habitat fragmentation, processes leading to fragmentation and to the improvement (diminution) of habitat quality for vector-borne disease transmission.

• Remote sensing standardisation training course.
• Provision of processed imagery to the remote sensing data archive.
• Maps with representative selected high resolution field sites for each Sub Project.
• Preliminary high resolution image analysis for each selected site.

2. To provide a conceptual framework for the study of the impact of land-cover and land-use and their changes on epidemiological processes and identify key factors of risk and indicators for monitoring.

• Specific conceptual models and metadata for each Sub Project.

3. To develop agent-based models of habitat changes relevant to the introduction, establishment and spread of diseases in Europe (Work conducted through the PhD program).