Measuring and modelling biodiversity from space

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 203-221

  Gillespie, Thomas W ^a   Foody, Giles M ^b   Rocchini, Duccio ^c   Giorgi, Ana Paula ^a   Saatchi, Sassan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Conservation planning; Diversity modelling; Remote sensing; Species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FUTURE PROSPECT; IKONOS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH WORK; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRACKING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 55249100510     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133308093606     Document Type: Article

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