TY - JOUR
T1 - Challenges and opportunities in harnessing satellite remote-sensing for biodiversity monitoring
AU - Mairota, Paola
AU - Cafarelli, Barbara
AU - Didham, Raphael K.
AU - Lovergine, Francesco P.
AU - Lucas, Richard M.
AU - Nagendra, Harini
AU - Rocchini, Duccio
AU - Tarantino, Cristina
N1 - cited By 7
PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - The ability of remote-sensing technologies to rapidly deliver data on habitat quantity (e.g., amount, configuration) and quality (e.g., structure, distribution of individual plant species, habitat types and/or communities, persistence) across a range of spatial resolutions and temporal frequencies is increasingly sought-after in conservation management. However, several problematic issues (e.g., imagery correction and registration, image interpretation, habitat type and quality definitions, assessment and monitoring procedures, uncertainties inherent in mapping, expert knowledge integration, scale selection, analysis of the interrelationships between habitat quality and landscape structure) challenge the effective and reliable use of such data and techniques. We discuss these issues, as a contribution to the development of a common language, framework and suite of research approaches among ecologists, remote-sensing experts and stakeholders (conservation managers) on the ground, and highlight recent theoretical and applied advances that provide opportunities for meeting these challenges. Reconciling differing stakeholder perspectives and needs will boost the timely provisioning of reliable information on the current and changing distribution of biodiversity to enable effective conservation management.
AB - The ability of remote-sensing technologies to rapidly deliver data on habitat quantity (e.g., amount, configuration) and quality (e.g., structure, distribution of individual plant species, habitat types and/or communities, persistence) across a range of spatial resolutions and temporal frequencies is increasingly sought-after in conservation management. However, several problematic issues (e.g., imagery correction and registration, image interpretation, habitat type and quality definitions, assessment and monitoring procedures, uncertainties inherent in mapping, expert knowledge integration, scale selection, analysis of the interrelationships between habitat quality and landscape structure) challenge the effective and reliable use of such data and techniques. We discuss these issues, as a contribution to the development of a common language, framework and suite of research approaches among ecologists, remote-sensing experts and stakeholders (conservation managers) on the ground, and highlight recent theoretical and applied advances that provide opportunities for meeting these challenges. Reconciling differing stakeholder perspectives and needs will boost the timely provisioning of reliable information on the current and changing distribution of biodiversity to enable effective conservation management.
KW - habitat quality
KW - imagery correction and registration
KW - expert knowledge
KW - uncertainties
KW - space-time scales
KW - context dependence
U2 - 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2015.08.006
DO - 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2015.08.006
M3 - Article
SN - 1878-0512
VL - 30
SP - 207
EP - 214
JO - Ecological Informatics
JF - Ecological Informatics
ER -