Characterizing Biodiversity in Urban Areas Using Remote Sensing

Urban Remote Sensing: Monitoring, Synthesis and Modeling in the Urban Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 287-304

  Hedblom, Marcus ^a   Mörtberg, Ulla ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biodiversity characterization in urban areas using remote sensing; Capturing biodiversity information through remote sensor, direct and indirect approaches; Fauna and flora, diversity in cities neglected research areas, natural environments or environments used for human production, as forests or rural areas; Flora and fauna along urban gradients studies of urban areas, biodiversity changes from city center to surrounding countryside; New developments, retrieving biodiversity related information from remote sensor data; NILS Urban, hierarchical level remote sensing and field inventories; Urban ecology, and its goal uncovering factors, regulating success or failure of species in inhabited areas; Urban green areas, acting as habitats importance of flora and fauna within cities, beneficial to humankind; Urbanization, and major effects on biodiversity cities, as leading centers of policy and innovation; Urbanization, together with agriculture threat to biodiversity worldwide

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; RURAL AREAS; URBAN PLANNING;

CITY CENTERS; FIELD INVENTORIES; INHABITED AREAS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; REMOTE SENSORS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN GREEN AREA; URBANIZATION, TOGETHER WITH AGRICULTURE - THREAT TO BIODIVERSITY WORLDWIDE;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84886145967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470979563.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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