Michel Bechtold^1,2, Gabrielle De Lannoy¹, Rolf H Reichle³, Dirk Roose², Nicole Balliston⁴, Iuliia Burdun⁵, Kevin Devito⁶, Mateusz Grygoruk⁷, Juliya Kurbatova⁸, Tariq M Munir⁹ and Evgeny A. Zarov¹⁰, (1)KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Heverlee, Belgium, (2)KU Leuven, Department of Computer Science, Heverlee, Belgium, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Waterloo, Wetlands Hydrology Research Group, Waterloo, Canada, (5)University of Tartu, Department of Geography, Tartu, Estonia, (6)University of Alberta, Biological Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (7)Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, mazowieckie, Poland, (8)A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, (9)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (10)Yugra state university, UNESCO chair Environmental dynamic and global climate changes, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia