Opportunities for the application of advanced remotely-sensed data in ecological studies of terrestrial animal movement

Movement Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Neumann, Wiebke ^a,b   Martinuzzi, Sebastian ^a   Estes, Anna B ^a,c   Pidgeon, Anna M ^a   Dettki, Holger ^b   Ericsson, Göran ^b   Radeloff, Volker C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal movement databases; Animal trajectories; Landsat; LiDAR; MODIS; Movement patterns; Remote sensing; Satellite products; Trade off resolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018265189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20513933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40462-015-0036-7     Document Type: Article

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