Remote sensing for ecology and conservation: a handbook of techniques/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York:
Oxford University Press,
c2010
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| Series: | Techniques in ecology and conservation series (Oxford University Press)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Why ecologists and conservation biologists use remote sensing
- When to use remote sensing
- Working with images
- Measuring and monitoring land cover, land use, and vegetation characteristics
- Terrain and soils
- Marine and coastal environments
- Wetlands
- estuaries, inland wetlands, and freshwater lakes
- Atmosphere and climate
- Disturbances : fires and floods
- Landscape fragmentation
- Human interfaces and urban change
- Protected area design and monitoring
- Integrating field data
- Linking remote sensing and modeling
- Global conservation
- Appendix 1: The electromagnetic spectrum
- Appendix 2: Image-processing software
- Appendix 3: Open source software
- Appendix 4: Satellites and sensors
- Appendix 5: Visual interpretation
- Appendix 6: Systems for observing climate and atmospheric phenomena.