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

Part I:  An Introduction to Remote Sensing Tools for Habitat Mapping and Monitoring
1.  Introducing the Book "The Roles of Remote Sensing in Nature Conservation"
2. Towards a Mature Age of Remote Sensing for Natura 2000 Habitat Conservation: Poor method transferability as a prime obstacle
3.  Pre-processing of Remotely Sensed Imagery
4.  Long-term Ecological Monitoring at Landscape Scale for Nature Conservation: The example of Doñana protected area
Part II:  Habitat Case Studies
5. NILS - A Nationwide Inventory Program for Monitoring the Conditions and Changes  of the Swedish Landscape
6. Mapping Coastal Habitats in Wales
7. Integrated Monitoring for Biodiversity Using Remote Sensing: From local to regional
8.  Sub-pixel Mapping of Doñana Shrubland Species
Part III Species-driven Remote Sensing and New Technologies Studies
9. Mapping the Distribution of Understorey Rhododendron ponticum Using Low-tech Multispectral UAV Derived Imagery
10. The Potential of UAV Derived Image Features for Discriminating Savannah Tree Species
11. A Toolbox for Remotely Monitoring Large Carnivores in Sweden
12. Coupling Field Sampling with Earth Observation Increases Understanding of Tiger Movement and Behaviour
13. Improving the Accuracy of Bird Counts Using Manual and Automated Counts in ImageJ: An Open-Source Image Processing Program
14. Using UAVs to Map Aquatic Bird Colonies
Part IV Looking Ahead Through Current Research Projects and Expected Advances
15. The Integrated Land Cover and Change Classifications
16. Expected Advances In a Rapidly Developing Work Area