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Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity
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This Open Access volume aims to methodologically improve our understanding of biodiversity by linking disciplines that incorporate remote sensing, and uniting data and perspectives in the fields of biology, landscape ecology, and geography. The book provides a framework for how biodiversity can be detected and evaluated—focusing particularly on plants—using proximal and remotely sensed hyperspectral data and other tools such as LiDAR. The volume, whose chapters bring together a large cross-section of the biodiversity community engaged in these methods, attempts to establish a common language across disciplines for understanding and implementing remote sensing of biodiversity across scales. The first part of the book offers a potential basis for remote detection of biodiversity. An overview of the nature of biodiversity is described, along with ways for determining traits of plant biodiversity through spectral analyses across spatial scales and linking spectral data to the tree of life. The second part details what can be detected spectrally and remotely. Specific instrumentation and technologies are described, as well as the technical challenges of detection and data synthesis, collection and processing. The third part discusses spatial resolution and integration across scales and ends with a vision for developing a global biodiversity monitoring system. Topics include spectral and functional variation across habitats and biomes, biodiversity variables for global scale assessment, and the prospects and pitfalls in remote sensing of biodiversity at the global scale.
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Keywords
- Applied ecology
- Biodiversity
- Biology, Life Sciences
- Botany & plant sciences
- Community assembly
- Detection of disease and decline in forests
- Ecological science, the Biosphere
- Ecosystems
- environmental monitoring
- Environmental science, engineering & technology
- Geographical information systems & remote sensing
- Geographical information systems (GIS) & remote sensing
- Geography
- Hyperspectral field data collection and processing
- Leaf optical properties
- Life sciences: general issues
- Mathematics & science
- Micro and macroscopic structure of leaves
- Monitoring/Environmental Analysis
- Ocean and aquatic biodiversity
- open access
- Plant Ecology
- plant science
- Plant Sciences
- Remote detection of biodiversity
- Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry
- Retrieving functional traits from spectra
- Spatial resolution and integration across scales
- Spectral diversity
- Technology, engineering, agriculture
- The environment