Remote Sensing of Protected Lands

ISBN-13: 9781439841877 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 636 str.

Yegiao Wang; Yeqiao Wang

Opis

Providing a suite of remote sensing-based approaches for dealing with the inventory and monitoring of protected lands around the world, this book addresses contemporary issues in monitoring, conservation planning, and ecosystem forecasting. It presents the state of the art in satellite-based remote sensing and compares protected lands with unprotected areas to measure ecosystem and environmental changes under factors such as human-induced land cover change and climate change. Case studies are included that illustrate key concepts.

Spis treści

Remote Sensing of Protected Lands: An Overview. Remote Sensing of Changing Landscape of Protected Lands. Remote Sensing for Inventory, Mapping, and Conservation of Protected Lands and Waters. Remote Sensing for Inventory and Monitoring of Frontier Lands. Remote Sensing in Decision Support for Management of Protected Lands. Index.

O autorze

Dr. Yeqiao Wang is a professor at the Department of Natural Resources Science, University of Rhode Island. He has received several awards for his work, including the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President William J. Clinton in 2000. Dr. Wang’s specialties are terrestrial remote sensing and modeling in natural resources analysis and mapping. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, 70 abstracts and conference papers, and contributed more than 20 peer-reviewed book chapters. He also edited Remote Sensing of Coastal Environments (CRC Press 2009). Dr. Wang serves as the editor in chief for Encyclopedia of Natural Resources (Taylor & Francis), a three-volume set of Land, Air, and Water. Besides his professional publications in English, he has also authored and edited several science books in Chinese.

For more information, see Dr. Wang’s web site at the University of Rhode Island.