The aim of the ‘Cartographie nationale des milieux humides‘ project is to create a dataset to locate wetlands throughout mainland France and characterise their natural, semi-natural and man-made habitats. These maps are produced using artificial intelligence and are based on freely available data, remote sensing data and in situ observations. This dataset is intended for use by researchers of course but also public policy-makers and the general public, with particular emphasis on society.
This dataset is proposed by a multi-disciplinary group from several institutions: University of Rennes 2, the French National Natural History Museum (MNHN), Institut Agro Rennes-Angers, the Tour du Valat Foundation, the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).