Remote Sensing and GIS for Ecologists (eBook)

lt;p>Martin Wegmann has a PhD in remote sensing focusing on time-series analysis on land cover change and fragmentation in Africa. He is an assistant professor at the Global Change Ecology Msc program at the University of Würzburg, Germany and runs courses in remote sensing analysis for biodiversity and conservation.

Benjamin Leutner is a research assistant at the department of remote sensing at the University of Würzburg. He has extensive experience in geo-spatial analysis of remote sensing data using Open Source software. 

Stefan Dech is director of the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) since 1998, and current spokesman of the Earth Observation Center (EOC) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Since 2001 he has held the Chair for Remote Sensing at the Institute of Geography and Geology of the University of Würzburg. 

Introduction

1 Spatial Data and Software

2 Introduction to Remote Sensing and GIS

3 Where to Obtain Spatial Data?

4 Spatial Data Analysis for Ecologists: First Steps

5 Pre-Processing Remote Sensing Data

6 Field Data for Remote Sensing Data Analysis

7 From Spectral to Ecological Information

8 Land Cover or Image Classification Approaches

9 Land Cover Change or Change Detection

10 Continuous Land Cover Information

11 Time Series Analysis

12 Spatial Land Cover Pattern Analysis

13 Modelling Species Distributions

14 Introduction to the added value of Animal Movement Analysis and Remote Sensing

Outlook and Acknowledgements

Index