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Ten ways remote sensing can contribute to conservation |
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| Authors: | Robert A. Rose Dirck Byler J. Ron Eastman Erica Fleishman Gary Geller Scott Goetz Liane Guild Healy Hamilton Matt Hansen Rachel Headley Jennifer Hewson Ned Horning Beth A. Kaplin Nadine Laporte Allison Leidner Peter Leimgruber Jeffrey Morisette John Musinsky Lilian Pintea Ana Prados Volker C. Radeloff Mary Rowen Sassan Saatchi Steve Schill Karyn Tabor Woody Turner Anthony Vodacek James Vogelmann Martin Wegmann David Wilkie Cara Wilson |
| Affiliation: | 1. Wildlife Conservation Society, Conservation Support, Bronx, NY, U.S.A.;2. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, International Affairs, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.;3. Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA, U.S.A.;4. John Muir Institute of the Environment, University of California, Davis, CA, U.S.A.;5. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.;6. The Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, U.S.A.;7. NASA Ames Research Center, MS 245–4, P.O. Box 1, Moffett Field, CA, U.S.A.;8. NatureServe, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.;9. Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, U.S.A.;10. (Former) Science Support, Landsat Project–U.S. Geological Survey, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Spearfish, SD, U.S.A.;11. Conservation International, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.;12. American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, U.S.A.;13. Department of Environmental Studies, Antioch University New England, U.S.A.;14. Universities Space Research Association, NASA Earth Science Division, Washington, U.S.A.;15. Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Conservation Ecology Center, Front Royal, VA, U.S.A.;16. U.S. Geological Survey, North Central Climate Science Center, U.S.A.;17. National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.;18. The Jane Goodall Institute, 1595 Spring Hill Road, VA 22182, U.S.A.;19. Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.;20. SILVIS Lab, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin‐Madison, Madison, WI, U.S.A.;21. U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.;22. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.;23. NASA Earth Science Division, U.S.A.;24. Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, U.S.A.;25. U.S. Geological Survey, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, SD, U.S.A.;26. Department of Remote Sensing, University of Wuerzburg, Germany;27. Environmental Research Division, NOAA/NMFS/SWFSC, Pacific Grove, CA, U.S.A. |
| Abstract: | In an effort to increase conservation effectiveness through the use of Earth observation technologies, a group of remote sensing scientists affiliated with government and academic institutions and conservation organizations identified 10 questions in conservation for which the potential to be answered would be greatly increased by use of remotely sensed data and analyses of those data. Our goals were to increase conservation practitioners’ use of remote sensing to support their work, increase collaboration between the conservation science and remote sensing communities, identify and develop new and innovative uses of remote sensing for advancing conservation science, provide guidance to space agencies on how future satellite missions can support conservation science, and generate support from the public and private sector in the use of remote sensing data to address the 10 conservation questions. We identified a broad initial list of questions on the basis of an email chain‐referral survey. We then used a workshop‐based iterative and collaborative approach to whittle the list down to these final questions (which represent 10 major themes in conservation): How can global Earth observation data be used to model species distributions and abundances? How can remote sensing improve the understanding of animal movements? How can remotely sensed ecosystem variables be used to understand, monitor, and predict ecosystem response and resilience to multiple stressors? How can remote sensing be used to monitor the effects of climate on ecosystems? How can near real‐time ecosystem monitoring catalyze threat reduction, governance and regulation compliance, and resource management decisions? How can remote sensing inform configuration of protected area networks at spatial extents relevant to populations of target species and ecosystem services? How can remote sensing‐derived products be used to value and monitor changes in ecosystem services? How can remote sensing be used to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of conservation efforts? How does the expansion and intensification of agriculture and aquaculture alter ecosystems and the services they provide? How can remote sensing be used to determine the degree to which ecosystems are being disturbed or degraded and the effects of these changes on species and ecosystem functions? |
| Keywords: | applied research biodiversity priority setting remote sensing biodiversidad investigació n aplicada marco de prioridad teledetecció n |