Remote sensing of ecology, biodiversity and conservation: A review from the perspective of remote sensing specialists

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 9647-9667

  Wang, Kai ^a   Franklin, Steven E ^b   Guo, Xulin ^a   Cattet, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity and conservation); Data fusion; EBC (ecology; Image classification; Integration of remote sensing (RS) and geographic information system (GIS); LIDAR; Remote sensing; Small satellite constellation; Thermal infrared

Indexed keywords

HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INSTRUMENTS AND TECHNIQUES; INVERSION ALGORITHM; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SMALL-SATELLITE; SPACEBORNE REMOTE SENSING; THERMAL INFRARED; VEGETATION INDEX;

BIODIVERSITY; DATA FUSION; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL RADAR;

REMOTE SENSING;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; REVIEW;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 78249275535     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s101109647     Document Type: Review

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