Technological advances in biodiversity monitoring: Applicability, opportunities and challenges

PJ Stephenson - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2020 - Elsevier
Evidence-based decision-making in natural resource management and conservation is
often constrained by lack of robust biodiversity data. Technology offers opportunities for …

Global observational needs and resources for marine biodiversity

G Canonico, PL Buttigieg, E Montes… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The diversity of life in the sea is critical to the health of ocean ecosystems that support living
resources and therefore essential to the economic, nutritional, recreational, and health …

Remote sensing of biodiversity: what to measure and monitor from space to species?

CS Reddy - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2021 - Springer
Global biodiversity monitoring systems through remote sensing can support consistent
assessment, monitoring, modelling and reporting on biodiversity which are key activities …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating spectral indices for water bodies extraction in western Tibetan Plateau

HW Khalid, RMZ Khalil, MA Qureshi - The Egyptian Journal of Remote …, 2021 - Elsevier
Waterbody extraction in the high-elevated region of the Tibetan Plateau from remote sensing
imagery is an efficient way to investigate and monitor water resources. The intrusion of …

[HTML][HTML] Leveraging TLS as a calibration and validation tool for MLS and ULS mapping of savanna structure and biomass at landscape-scales

SR Levick, T Whiteside, DA Loewensteiner, M Rudge… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Savanna ecosystems are challenging to map and monitor as their vegetation is highly
dynamic in space and time. Understanding the structural diversity and biomass distribution …

A methodology for mapping native and invasive vegetation coverage in archipelagos: An example from the Galápagos Islands

GF Rivas-Torres, FL Benítez, D Rueda… - Progress in …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This study develops a mixed, systematic, low-cost methodology to define and map native
vegetation and the spread of the most aggressive invasive species in islands biomes …

On the use of global DEMs in ecological modelling and the accuracy of new bare-earth DEMs

V Moudrý, V Lecours, K Gdulová, L Gábor, L Moudrá… - Ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
It is now widely acknowledged that the increasing availability of remotely sensed data
facilitates ecological modelling. Digital elevation models (DEMs) are arguably one of the …

Toward operational validation systems for global satellite-based terrestrial essential climate variables

B Bayat, F Camacho, J Nickeson, M Cosh… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Terrestrial Essential Climate Variables, known as terrestrial ECVs, are key sources
of information for both application-and scientific-oriented research. A large number of global …

Ecological equivalence assessment: The potential of genetic tools, remote sensing and metapopulation models to better apply the mitigation hierarchy

J Boileau, C Calvet, S Pioch, S Moulherat - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Within the framework of the mitigation hierarchy, biodiversity offsetting is the main tool
promoted to reach No Net Loss. One of the determining factors of offsetting success is the …

Earth observations for sustainable development goals monitoring based on essential variables and driver-pressure-state-impact-response indicators

J Masó, I Serral, C Domingo-Marimon… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, researchers of different communities have increased their efforts in
formalizing a set of measurements regularly collected for analysing changes in Drivers …