Conservation Remote Sensing Now and in the Future

Moving Forward
• Data
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Looking forward to next Landsat mission
Better access to low cost medium and high resolution imagery
Products, not just raw data
• Applications
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Need to develop conservation specific applications
Rapid and repeatable land cover monitoring – measuring effectiveness
Better predictive models
Carbon monitoring
Degradation
• Capacity
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Need to develop capacity for basic RS
Hope to develop on-line course
• Better communications with RS researchers in
government, private and academic institutions