The Roles of Remote Sensing in Nature Conservation: A Practical Guide and Case Studies

Front Matter ....Pages i-xii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Introducing the Book “The Roles of Remote Sensing in Nature Conservation”  (Ricardo Díaz-Delgado, Clive Hurford, Richard Lucas)....Pages 3-10
 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)....Pages 11-37
 Pre-processing of Remotely Sensed Imagery  (Peter Bunting)....Pages 39-63
 Long-Term Ecological Monitoring at the Landscape Scale for Nature Conservation: The Example of Doñana Protected Area  (Ricardo Díaz-Delgado)....Pages 65-76
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 NILS – A Nationwide Inventory Program for Monitoring the Conditions and Changes of the Swedish Landscape  (Anna Allard)....Pages 79-90
 Mapping Coastal Habitats in Wales  (Gwawr Jones, Peter Bunting, Clive Hurford)....Pages 91-120
 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 et al.)....Pages 121-139
 Sub-pixel Mapping of Doñana Shrubland Species  (Marcos Jiménez, Ricardo Díaz-Delgado)....Pages 141-163
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 Mapping the Distribution of Understorey Rhododendron Ponticum Using Low-Tech Multispectral UAV Derived Imagery  (Abigail Sanders)....Pages 167-181
 The Potential of UAV Derived Image Features for Discriminating Savannah Tree Species  (J. Oldeland, A. Große-Stoltenberg, L. Naftal, B. J. Strohbach)....Pages 183-201
 A Toolbox for Remotely Monitoring Large Carnivores in Sweden  (Michael Schneider, Holger Dettki)....Pages 203-222
 Coupling Field Sampling with Earth Observation Increases Understanding of Tiger Movement and Behaviour  (Sonali Ghosh, Richard Lucas)....Pages 223-247
 Improving the Accuracy of Bird Counts Using Manual and Automated Counts in ImageJ: An Open-Source Image Processing Program  (Clive Hurford)....Pages 249-276
 Using UAVs to Map Aquatic Bird Colonies  (Ricardo Díaz-Delgado, Manuel Mañez, Antonio Martínez, David Canal, Miguel Ferrer, David Aragonés)....Pages 277-291
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 Integrated Land Cover and Change Classifications  (Richard Lucas, Anthea Mitchell)....Pages 295-308
 Expected Advances in a Rapidly Developing Work Area  (Richard Lucas, Ricardo Díaz-Delgado, Clive Hurford)....Pages 309-318