What do conservation practitioners want from remote sensing?

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Authors Rhys Green 1 , r.green@zoo.cam.ac.uk Graeme Buchanan 2 , graeme.buchanan@rspb.org.uk Rosamunde Almond 3 , r.almond@jbs.cam.ac.uk 1 Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge 2 RSPB 3 Cambridge Conservation Initiative On behalf of the project champions group: Mike Adam (United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre) Claire Fitzgerald (United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre) Ian May (BirdLife International) Ruth Swetnam (Staffordshire University) The Remote Sensing for Biodiversity Conservation project was funded by the CCI Conservation Futures Shared Challenges Programme Front page photo credit: Landsat TM images (NASA Landsat Program, 1990) around Important Bird Areas (IBAs) ET047, ET048 and ET054 in Ethiopia 1
Contents Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 3 Part 1: Requirements of conservation users of remote sensing ...................................................... 5 1.1 Habitat extent, distribution and inventory ................................................................................. 5 1.2 Change in habitat extent and distribution ................................................................................. 6 1.3 Habitat structure and features .................................................................................................. 6 1.4 Effectiveness of protected areas and other land management interventions ............................ 7 1.5 Drivers of habitat loss, degradation and overexploitation of natural resources ......................... 7 1.6 Impacts of climatic change on biodiversity ............................................................................... 9 1.7 Ecosystem services ................................................................................................................. 9 1.8 Remote sensing based alert systems for timely detection of damage to key sites ................... 9 Part 2: General concerns about the applicability of remote sensing to conservation .................. 11 2.1 Multi-temporal and real time analyses ................................................................................... 11 2.2 Data verification ..................................................................................................................... 11 2.3 Access to and promotion of data sets .................................................................................... 12 2.4 Information on data sets ........................................................................................................ 12 2.5 Capacity needs ...................................................................................................................... 12 Annex ................................................................................................................................................. 14 Background to the user needs workshops ...................................................................................... 14 The Shared Challenges Programme (May 2008 to June 2012) ........................................................ 14 Remote sensing for biodiversity conservation................................................................................... 14 Notes from the User Needs Workshops in each CCI Partner organisation ................................... 15 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB): 18 January 2010 ................................................. 15 UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC): Monday 1st February 2010 ............ 18 BirdLife International, 11 th February 2010 ......................................................................................... 20 Fauna & Flora International (FFI), 15 th February 2010 ...................................................................... 22 British Trust for Ornithology (BTO): Monday 1st February 2010 ....................................................... 25 2
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