Challenges and opportunities in harnessing satellite remote-sensing for biodiversity monitoring

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 30, Issue , 2015, Pages 207-214

  Mairota, Paola ^a   Cafarelli, Barbara ^b   Didham, Raphael K ^c,d   Lovergine, Francesco P ^e   Lucas, Richard M ^f   Nagendra, Harini ^g   Rocchini, Duccio ^h   Tarantino, Cristina ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^g AZIM PREMJI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^h RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Context dependence; Expert knowledge; Habitat quality; Imagery correction and registration; Space time scales; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMONITORING; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CORRECTION; EXPERT SYSTEM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT QUALITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84948713231     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2015.08.006     Document Type: Article

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