Download or read book Implementation of Remote Sensing for Ecosystem Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Implementation of Remote Sensing for Ecosystem Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Management written by Jerry D. Greer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Implementing a Comprehensive Long term Remote Sensing Program to Meet Ecosystem Management Information Needs written by Henry M. Lachowski and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Remote Sensing and GIS in Ecosystem Management written by V. Alaric Sample and published by . This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Particularly about forests in the USA.

Download or read book Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing Applications for Ecosystem Management written by Frank D'Erchia and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Guidebook for Integrated Ecological Assessments written by Mark E. Jensen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich set of protocols for the process of assessing the ecological make-up of the land so as to guide environmental decision-making.

Download or read book Sourcebook on Remote Sensing and Biodiversity Indicators written by Holly Strand and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This sourcebook is intended to assist environmental managers and others who work with indicators in pursuing appropriate methods for indicator testing and production, and to offer some guidance to those responsible for the interpretation of indicators and implementation of decisions based on them. Upon reading this document, technical advisers, environmental policy makers, and remote sensing lab directors and project managers should be able to identify specific, relevant uses of remote sensing data for biodiversity monitoring and indicator development related to the CBD." --p. 8.

Download or read book Earth Observation of Ecosystem Services written by Domingo Alcaraz-Segura and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A balanced review of differing approaches based on remote sensing tools and methods to assess and monitor biodiversity, carbon and water cycles, and the energy balance of terrestrial ecosystem. Earth Observation of Ecosystem Services highlights the advantages Earth observation technologies offer for quantifying and monitoring multiple ecosystem functions and services. It provides a multidisciplinary reference that expressly covers the use of remote sensing for quantifying and monitoring multiple ecosystem services. Rather than exhaustively cover all possible ecosystem services, this book takes a global look at the most relevant remote sensing approaches to estimate key ecosystem services from satellite data. Structured in four main sections, it covers carbon cycle, biodiversity, water cycle, and energy balance. Each section contains a review of conceptual and empirical methods, techniques, and case studies linking remotely sensed data to the biophysical variables and ecosystem functions associated with key ecosystem services. The book identifies relevant issues and challenges of assessment, presents cutting-edge sensing techniques, uses globally implemented tools to quantify ecosystem functions, and presents examples of successful monitoring programs. Covering recent developments undertaken on the global and national stage from Earth observation satellite data, it includes valuable lessons and recommendations and novel ways to improve current global monitoring systems. The book delineates the use of Earth observation data so that it can be used to quantify, map, value, and manage the valuable goods and services that ecosystems provide to societies around the world.

Download or read book Remote Sensing for Tropical Ecosystem Management written by Uchū Kaihatsu Jigyōdan (Japan) and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the seminar was to: create awareness of the usefulness of remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) techniques in monitoring and managing the natural resources in tropical environments; and to give hands on training in the basics of image processing and GIS techniques for junior level practitioners from various local government agencies working in natural resource management and environment monitoring.

Download or read book Sustainable Ecological Systems written by W. Wallace Covington and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This conference brought together scientists and managers from federal, state, and local agencies, along with private-sector interests, to examine key concepts involving sustainable ecological systems, and ways in which to apply these concepts to ecosystem management. Session topics were: ecological consequences of land and water use changes, biology of rare and declining species and habitats, conservation biology and restoration ecology, developing and applying ecological theory to management of ecological systems and forest health, and sustainable ecosystems to respond to human needs. A plenary session established the philosophical and historical contexts for ecosystem management."--Title page verso.

Download or read book Mapping Tomorrow s Resources written by Allan Falconer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Operationalization of Remote Sensing Solutions for Sustainable Forest Management written by Gintautas Mozgeris and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great potential of remote sensing technologies for operational use in sustainable forest management is addressed in this book, which is the reprint of papers published in the Remote Sensing Special Issue “Operationalization of Remote Sensing Solutions for Sustainable Forest Management”. The studies come from three continents and cover multiple remote sensing systems (including terrestrial mobile laser scanning, unmanned aerial vehicles, airborne laser scanning, and satellite data acquisition) and a diversity of data processing algorithms, with a focus on machine learning approaches. The focus of the studies ranges from identification and characterization of individual trees to deriving national- or even continental-level forest attributes and maps. There are studies carefully describing exercises on the case study level, and there are also studies introducing new methodologies for transdisciplinary remote sensing applications. Even though most of the authors look forward to continuing their research, nearly all studies introduced are ready for operational use or have already been implemented in practical forestry.

Download or read book An Examination of the Potential and Limitations of Optical Remote Sensing in Monitoring Submerged Aquatic Vegetation written by Gillian Rowan and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aquatic vegetation is a critical component of freshwater ecosystems, providing habitat for small fish and invertebrates, stabilizing sediments, altering flow regimes, and improving water quality. Vegetation communities are, however, facing new and escalating pressures due to climate change and increased human disturbances. Monitoring and managing these ecosystems are therefore vital if the services aquatic plants afford are to be maintained. Remote sensing has been suggested as a preferred method to monitor these habitats, but the technology hasn't yet seen extensive implementation particularly to submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) in the freshwater context. The goal of this thesis is to facilitate the application of remote sensing techniques to SAV monitoring through both information transfer and filling in foundational knowledge gaps in the field. A systematic literature review was conducted of previous work in SAV monitoring using remote sensing, which was synthesized with relevant general principles of remote sensing, to create a resource for ecosystem managers and ecological researchers unfamiliar with the discipline. This resource provides an overview of all aspects of a typical optical remote sensing workflow, concentrating on applications to SAV monitoring, to instruct non-specialists in whether and how to adopt remote sensing as a research method. The majority of previous work focused on coastal systems and primarily on determining community extent. While these applications did produce moderate to good results, the narrow scope of the data precludes many critical ecosystem management and research questions from being answered. For this reason, original research was undertaken to implement optical remote sensing techniques to a larger range of targets in a non-ideal (i.e., freshwater) environment. This work assessed the spectral separability of targets under laboratory conditions at various grouping levels (i.e., species to kingdom, vegetation/non-vegetation), under multiple sampling conditions, and modelled across spectral resolutions. In situ imagery was additionally analyzed to compare the expected modelled accuracy to what is possible under field conditions. Samples from thirteen species of SAV were collected across two seasons and were found to be spectrally separable (leave-one-out nearest neighbour criterion of 0.8 to 1 depending on grouping) during the peak of the growing season. Spectral separability depended directly on the spectral resolution and number of bands of the sensor chosen. Airborne hyperspectral imagery was effective with individual class recall of up to 100%, and overall recalls of 88% and 94% when detecting vegetation types and between vegetation or non-vegetation, respectively. Image analysis was limited to targets of canopy-forming or carpeting vegetation and large unvegetated patches due to the ~ 1 m spatial resolution. The targets present in this freshwater ecosystem would be conducive to mapping and monitoring using remote sensing techniques, however, imagery of the spatial and spectral resolution required for such applications is expensive and not widely available. Development of targeted and sufficiently high-spatial resolution sensors aboard space-borne platforms should therefore be prioritized if aquatic vegetation is to be effectively monitored at the regional to global scales"--

Download or read book Satellite Remote Sensing and the Management of Natural Resources written by Nathalie Pettorelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to anticipate the impacts of global environmental changes on natural resources is fundamental to designing appropriate and optimised adaptation and mitigation strategies. However, this requires the scientific community to have access to reliable, large-scale information on spatio-temporal changes in the distribution of abiotic conditions and on the distribution, structure, composition, and functioning of ecosystems. Satellite remote sensing can provide access to some of this fundamental data by offering repeatable, standardised, and verifiable information that is directly relevant to the monitoring and management of our natural capital. This book demonstrates how ecological knowledge and satellite-based information can be effectively combined to address a wide array of current natural resource management needs. By focusing on concrete applied examples in both the marine and terrestrial realms, it will help pave the way for developing enhanced levels of collaboration between the ecological and remote sensing communities, as well as shaping their future research directions. Satellite Remote Sensing and the Management of Natural Resources is primarily aimed at ecologists and remote sensing specialists, as well as policy makers and practitioners in the fields of conservation biology, biodiversity monitoring, and natural resource management.

Download or read book REMOTE SENSING FOR TROPICAL ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHT REGIONAL written by SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA "UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC (THE PACIFIC.) and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Remote Sensing written by J D Greer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1996-09-30 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: