Satellite Remote Sensing and the Management of Natural Resources

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. <p/>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. <p/><em>Satellite Remote Sensing and the Management of Natural Resources</em> 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. <p/>