TY - BOOK AU - Horning, Ned AU - Robinson, Julie A. AU - Sterling, Eleanor J. AU - Turner, Woody AU - Spector, Sasha TI - Remote sensing for ecology and conservation: a handbook of techniques SN - 9780199219957 U1 - 621.3678 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Nature conservation--Remote sensing KW - Remote sensing N1 - Introduction: Why ecologists and conservation biologists use remote sensing -- When to use remote sensing -- Working with images -- Measuring and monitoring land cover, land use, and vegetation characteristics -- Terrain and soils -- Marine and coastal environments -- Wetlands--estuaries, inland wetlands, and freshwater lakes -- Atmosphere and climate -- Disturbances : fires and floods -- Landscape fragmentation -- Human interfaces and urban change -- Protected area design and monitoring -- Integrating field data -- Linking remote sensing and modeling -- Global conservation -- Appendix 1: The electromagnetic spectrum -- Appendix 2: Image-processing software -- Appendix 3: Open source software -- Appendix 4: Satellites and sensors -- Appendix 5: Visual interpretation -- Appendix 6: Systems for observing climate and atmospheric phenomena ER -