Satellite remote sensing, biodiversity research and conservation of the future

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1643, 2014, Pages

  Pettorelli, Nathalie ^a   Safi, Kamran ^b,c   Turner, Woody ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Data accessibility; Data sharing; Integrative approaches; Multi disciplinary work

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CAPACITY BUILDING; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNCHRONY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84898440940     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0190     Document Type: Article

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