The Roles of Remote Sensing in Nature Conservation

Part I. Part I

1. Introducing the Book “The Roles of Remote Sensing in Nature Conservation”
Ricardo Díaz-Delgado, Clive Hurford, Richard Lucas

2. Towards a Mature Age of Remote Sensing for Natura 2000 Habitat Conservation: Poor Method Transferability as a Prime Obstacle
Jeroen Vanden Borre, Toon Spanhove, Birgen Haest

3. Pre-processing of Remotely Sensed Imagery
Peter Bunting

4. Long-Term Ecological Monitoring at the Landscape Scale for Nature Conservation: The Example of Doñana Protected Area
Ricardo Díaz-Delgado

Part II. Part II

5. NILS – A Nationwide Inventory Program for Monitoring the Conditions and Changes of the Swedish Landscape
Anna Allard

6. Mapping Coastal Habitats in Wales
Gwawr Jones, Peter Bunting, Clive Hurford

7. Integrated Monitoring for Biodiversity Using Remote Sensing: From Local to Regional – A Case Study from Norfolk
Katie Medcalf, Jacqueline Parker, Gemma Bell, Paul Robinson, Samuel Neal, Martin Horlock, Johanna Breyer

8. Sub-pixel Mapping of Doñana Shrubland Species
Marcos Jiménez, Ricardo Díaz-Delgado

Part III. Part III

9. Mapping the Distribution of Understorey Rhododendron Ponticum Using Low-Tech Multispectral UAV Derived Imagery
Abigail Sanders

10. The Potential of UAV Derived Image Features for Discriminating Savannah Tree Species
J. Oldeland, A. Große-Stoltenberg, L. Naftal, B. J. Strohbach

11. A Toolbox for Remotely Monitoring Large Carnivores in Sweden
Michael Schneider, Holger Dettki

12. Coupling Field Sampling with Earth Observation Increases Understanding of Tiger Movement and Behaviour
Sonali Ghosh, Richard Lucas

13. Improving the Accuracy of Bird Counts Using Manual and Automated Counts in ImageJ: An Open-Source Image Processing Program
Clive Hurford

14. Using UAVs to Map Aquatic Bird Colonies
Ricardo Díaz-Delgado, Manuel Mañez, Antonio Martínez, David Canal, Miguel Ferrer, David Aragonés

Part IV. Part IV

15. Integrated Land Cover and Change Classifications
Richard Lucas, Anthea Mitchell

16. Expected Advances in a Rapidly Developing Work Area
Richard Lucas, Ricardo Díaz-Delgado, Clive Hurford

Keywords: Life Sciences, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Biodiversity