Since 1972, the Landsat program has been continually monitoring the Earth, to now provide
50 years of digital, multispectral, medium spatial resolution observations. Over this time …

Land use/land cover (LULC) is a fundamental concept of the Earth's system intimately
connected to many phases of the human and physical environment. Earth observation (EO) …

There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and
conservation but this is the first book to focus explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference …

Species distribution models (SDMs) are numerical tools that combine observations of
species occurrence or abundance with environmental estimates. They are used to gain …

Aim Habitat heterogeneity has long been recognized as a key landscape characteristic
determining biodiversity patterns. However, a lack of standardized, large‐scale, high …

This review highlights the latest developments associated with the use of the Normalized
Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in ecology. Over the last decade, the NDVI has proven …

Farmland abandonment restructures rural landscapes in many regions worldwide in
response to gradual industrialization and urbanization. In contrast, the political breakdown in …

Based on the results of an extensive literature research, we summarize the research
progress of remote sensing monitoring in terms of identifying mining area boundaries and …

Environmental heterogeneity is considered to be one of the main factors associated with
biodiversity given that areas with highly heterogeneous environments can host more …

Ecologists commonly collect data on vegetation structure, which is an important attribute for
characterizing habitat. However, measuring vegetation structure across large areas is …