The wealth of complementary data available from remote sensing missions can hugely aid
efforts towards accurately determining land use and quantifying subtle changes in land use …

Land cover classification of Landsat images is one of the most important applications
developed from Earth observation satellites. The last four decades were marked by different …

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

Societal, economic and scientific interests in knowing where biodiversity is, how it is faring
and what can be done to efficiently mitigate further biodiversity loss and the associated loss …

Hyperspectral data (Table 1) is acquired as continuous narrowbands (eg, each band with 1
to 10 nanometer or nm bandwidths) over a range of electromagnetic spectrum (eg, 400 …

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Spatial and temporal information on plant functional traits are lacking in ecology, which limits
our understanding of how plant communities and ecosystems are changing. This problem is …

When characterizing the processes that shape ecosystems, ecologists increasingly use the
unique perspective offered by repeat observations of remotely sensed imagery. However …

Appropriate integration of remote sensing technologies into ecosystem services concepts
and practices leads to potential practical benefits for the protection of biodiversity and the …

The advent of lidar has revolutionized the way we observe and measure vegetation structure
from the ground and from above and represents a major advance toward the quantification …