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Nathalie Pettorelli - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Satellite Remote Sensing and the Management of Natural Resources - Satellite Remote Sensing in the policy sphere
Satellite Remote Sensing and the Management of Natural Resources, 2019Co-Authors: Nathalie PettorelliAbstract:This chapter focuses on the interface between Satellite Remote Sensing and policy relevant to the management of natural resources, looking at ways for this technology to support decision making at the national to international scale. First, it briefly introduces (1) the main international conventions that are relevant to the management of natural resources and that could easily benefit from an increased consideration for Satellite Remote Sensing technology, and (2) the main platforms facilitating the integration of Satellite Remote Sensing data at the convention level. Second, it introduces the most popular conceptual frameworks that are being considered to help coordinate and structure natural resource monitoring efforts worldwide, namely the essential biodiversity variables framework, the biodiversity indicators framework, the ecosystem services framework, and the natural capital accounting framework. The final part highlights current challenges and lists a series of possible ways forward.
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Satellite Remote Sensing and the Management of Natural Resources - Satellite Remote Sensing and anthropogenic pressures on biodiversity
Satellite Remote Sensing and the Management of Natural Resources, 2019Co-Authors: Nathalie PettorelliAbstract:This chapter explores how Satellite Remote Sensing can be employed to monitor a wide range of anthropogenic pressures which affect species and ecosystems, in both terrestrial and marine systems. First, it reviews the literature on the use of Satellite data to monitor deforestation and forest degradation. It then explores how these data can be used to monitor fragmentation, which is another form of habitat degradation that can represent an important threat to the preservation of biological diversity. This is followed by a review of the use of Satellite Remote Sensing information to monitor urbanisation, night-time light pollution, oil exploration and exploitation, mineral extraction activities, oil spills and run-off, and illegal fishing. The chapter concludes by discussing opportunities for Satellite Remote Sensing to monitor and predict the impact of climate change on biodiversity.
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Satellite Remote Sensing and the Management of Natural Resources - Satellite Remote Sensing to support agriculture and forestry
Satellite Remote Sensing and the Management of Natural Resources, 2019Co-Authors: Nathalie PettorelliAbstract:This chapter presents a comprehensive overview of how Satellite data can be used to support agriculture and forestry. The first two parts explore how Satellite imagery can be used to monitor forests and crops, looking at opportunities to track changes in parameters such as tree height, tree ring width, and tree mortality from space, and reviewing how Satellite data can be used for crop phenology and crop disease monitoring, as well as for crop yield measurements and predictions. The next sections focus on Satellite Remote Sensing as a way to improve practices, discussing how Satellite Remote Sensing technology can provide information on soil properties and inform management through the assessment of plant physiological status. The chapter concludes by discussing the role of Satellite Remote Sensing in the context of precision farming and sustainable land use, and its possible contribution toward developing management practices at the field level to maximise economic output and to reduce adverse impact on the environment.
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Satellite Remote Sensing and the Management of Natural Resources
2019Co-Authors: Nathalie PettorelliAbstract:This book intends to familiarise prospective users in the environmental community with Satellite Remote Sensing technology and its applications, introducing terminology and principles behind Satellite Remote Sensing data and analyses. It provides a detailed overview of the possible applications of Satellite data in natural resource management, demonstrating how ecological knowledge and Satellite-based information can be effectively combined to address a wide array of current natural resource management needs. Topics considered include the use of Satellite data to monitor the various dimensions of biodiversity; the use of this technology to track pressures on biodiversity such as invasive species, pollution, and illegal fishing; the utility of Satellite Remote Sensing to inform the management of protected areas, translocation, and habitat restoration; and the contribution of Satellite Remote Sensing towards the monitoring of ecosystem services and wellbeing. The intended audience is ecologists and environmental scientists; the book is targeted as a handbook and is therefore also suitable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in the biological and ecological sciences, as well as policy makers and specialists in the fields of conservation biology, biodiversity monitoring, and natural resource management. The book assumes no prior technical knowledge of Satellite Remote Sensing systems and products. It is written so as to generate interest in the ecological, environmental management, and Remote Sensing communities, highlighting issues associated with the emergence of truly synergistic approaches between these disciplines.
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Satellite Remote Sensing and the Management of Natural Resources - Satellite Remote Sensing and the management of wild species and habitats
Satellite Remote Sensing and the Management of Natural Resources, 2019Co-Authors: Nathalie PettorelliAbstract:This chapter discusses how Satellite Remote Sensing may support efforts to re-establish functional ecosystems worldwide, by exploring how this technology can support the implementation of various actions linked to this specific environmental management goal. The first part of this chapter explores how Satellite information can be used to inform translocation programmes: for example, by helping to identify suitable habitats where individuals can be moved. The second section discusses Satellite imagery in the context of site selection for restoration projects and the monitoring of restoration target. The third section of this chapter focuses on the identification of corridors using Satellite Remote Sensing techniques.
Randall V Martin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Satellite Remote Sensing of surface air quality
Atmospheric Environment, 2008Co-Authors: Randall V MartinAbstract:Satellite Remote Sensing of air quality has evolved dramatically over the last decade. Global observations are now available for a wide range of species including aerosols, tropospheric O3, tropospheric NO2, CO, HCHO, and SO2. Capabilities for Satellite Remote Sensing of these species in the boundary layer are reviewed for current instruments, along with physical processes affecting their accuracy and precision. Applications of Satellite observations are discussed for case studies of specific events, for estimates of surface concentrations, and to improve emission inventories of trace gases and aerosols. Aerosol Remote Sensing at visible wavelengths exhibits high sensitivity to boundary layer concentrations. Although atmo- spheric scattering and surface emission of thermal radiation generally reduce instrument sensitivity to trace gases near the surface, a strong boundary layer signal in NO2 arises from its large boundary layer concentrations relative to the free troposphere. Recommendations are presented including (1) additional dedicated validation activities, especially for tropospheric NO2 and HCHO; (2) improved characterization of geophysical fields that affect Remote Sensing of trace gases and aerosols; (3) continued development of comprehensive assimilation and inversion capabilities to relate Satellite observations to emissions and surface concentrations; (4) development of Satellite instruments and algorithms to achieve higher spatial resolution to resolve urban scales, facilitate validation, and reduce cloud contamination that increases Remote Sensing error; and (5) support for the next generate of Satellite instrumentation designed for air quality applications.
F M Danson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Satellite Remote Sensing of forest resources three decades of research development
Progress in Physical Geography, 2005Co-Authors: Doreen S Boyd, F M DansonAbstract:Three decades have passed since the launch of the first international Satellite sensor programme designed for monitoring Earth’s resources. Over this period, forest resources have come under increasing pressure, thus their management and use should be underpinned by information on their properties at a number of levels. This paper provides a comprehensive review of how Satellite Remote Sensing has been used in forest resource assessment since the launch of the first Earth resources Satellite sensor (ERTS) in 1972. The use of Remote Sensing in forest resource assessment provides three levels of information; namely (1) the spatial extent of forest cover, which can be used to assess the spatial dynamics of forest cover; (2) forest type and (3) biophysical and biochemical properties of forests. The assessment of forest information over time enables the comprehensive monitoring of forest resources. This paper provides a comprehensive review of how Satellite Remote Sensing has been used to date and, building on...
Doreen S Boyd - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Satellite Remote Sensing of forest resources three decades of research development
Progress in Physical Geography, 2005Co-Authors: Doreen S Boyd, F M DansonAbstract:Three decades have passed since the launch of the first international Satellite sensor programme designed for monitoring Earth’s resources. Over this period, forest resources have come under increasing pressure, thus their management and use should be underpinned by information on their properties at a number of levels. This paper provides a comprehensive review of how Satellite Remote Sensing has been used in forest resource assessment since the launch of the first Earth resources Satellite sensor (ERTS) in 1972. The use of Remote Sensing in forest resource assessment provides three levels of information; namely (1) the spatial extent of forest cover, which can be used to assess the spatial dynamics of forest cover; (2) forest type and (3) biophysical and biochemical properties of forests. The assessment of forest information over time enables the comprehensive monitoring of forest resources. This paper provides a comprehensive review of how Satellite Remote Sensing has been used to date and, building on...
M. Wegmann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Special feature: improving biodiversity monitoring using Satellite Remote Sensing
2018Co-Authors: Sandra Luque, Nathalie Pettorelli, P. Vihervaara, M. WegmannAbstract:The preservation of biodiversity has become a major challenge for sustainable development at national, European (Natura 2000 and Habitats Directive) and international levels (Convention on Biological Diversity, 2011-2020). To address the current conservation needs, there is a need to operationalise methods to assess the distribution of natural resources while integrating information on habitat condition; inform conservation planning and support the assessment of ecosystem services. Increased access to Satellite imagery and new developments in data analyses can support progress towards biodiversity conservation targets by stepping up monitoring processes at various spatial and temporal scales. Satellite Remote Sensing is however no panacea, and little can be achieved without a robust understanding of the socio‐ecological system considered. We aim to demonstrate how the coupling of Satellite Remote Sensing data with ground observations and adequate modelling can provide tangible operational solutions towards a better understanding and management of natural systems.
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Improving biodiversity monitoring using Satellite Remote Sensing to provide solutions towards the 2020 conservation targets
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2018Co-Authors: Sandra Luque, Nathalie Pettorelli, P. Vihervaara, M. WegmannAbstract:This is an introduction to the issue: Special feature: improving biodiversity monitoring using Satellite Remote Sensing. The preservation of biodiversity has become a major challenge for sustainable development at national, European (Natura 2000 and Habitats Directive) and international levels (Convention on Biological Diversity, 2011-2020). To address the current conservation needs, there is a need to operationalise methods to assess the distribution of natural resources while integrating information on habitat condition; inform conservation planning and support the assessment of ecosystem services. Increased access to Satellite imagery and new developments in data analyses can support progress towards biodiversity conservation targets by stepping up monitoring processes at various spatial and temporal scales. Satellite Remote Sensing is however no panacea, and little can be achieved without a robust understanding of the socio‐ecological system considered. We aim to demonstrate how the coupling of Satellite Remote Sensing data with ground observations and adequate modelling can provide tangible operational solutions towards a better understanding and management of natural systems.
