Biodiversity Study by Remote Sensing
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2016) | Viewed by 7627
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biodiversity estimate; computational ecology; ecological informatics; remote sensing; spatial ecology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Quantifying biodiversity is a challenging task, overall considering impervious areas. In some cases, field sampling might need an efficient way to be planned. In this view, remote sensing is a valuable tool for efficiently planning field sampling for biodiversity data gathering.
Additionally, remote sensing represents a powerful tool for predicting biodiversity spots and species community turnover, based on a number of different sensors/images at different spatial and spectral resolutions.
The aim of this Special Issue is to focus on theoretical and empirical research to face biodiversity-related issues, based on remote sensing data.
We encourage researchers to send their manuscript on the following topics:
- the theory behind the use of remote sensing for biodiversity study
- macroecology and remote sensing
- remote sensing for the improvement of the efficiency of sampling design
- empirical evidence on the relationship between field and remote sensing information on biodiversity
- species distribution modeling
- species invasions, tracked by remote sensing and remotely sensed variables
Dr. Duccio Rocchini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biodiversity
- macroecology
- remote sensing
- species distribution modeling
- sensors
- spatial resolution
- spectral resolution
- statistics
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