Author Ian Paynter describes how a new wave of terrestrial lidar scanners, optimized for rapid scanning and portability, enable and improve observations of structure across a range of important ecosystems. Here at the School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts Boston, we study the environment by scanning it with lasers. Our laser scanning instruments utilize light detection … Continue reading Observing ecosystems with lightweight, rapid-scanning terrestrial lidar scanners
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation is a new open access journal, addressing the interdisciplinary field that links different aspects of remote sensing (the use of different imaging and sensing technologies) and the field of ecology and conservation. It is publishing its papers in Open Access, so the papers are free to download and share. … Continue reading Call for Papers in a special issue on citizen science
Camera trapping is a highly useful tool for estimating animal abundance for wildlife management and conservation. Following our previous blog post we continue to explore camera trapping methods. Here, Tim Hofmeester presents a recent paper about estimating the effective detection distance of camera traps, published in journal Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. An increasing number … Continue reading A simple method for estimating the effective detection distance of camera traps
Camera traps are a useful tool for detecting wildlife, but it is important to have a sound understanding of how they operate. Dustin Welbourne, author of a recent paper, published in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, sheds light on how these fantastic tools work and addresses some common misconceptions appearing in the literature. Camera traps … Continue reading Passive infrared triggered camera traps: Detecting wildlife, but not as you know it
New camera trap technology reveals new insight into animal movement. Movement ecology is flourishing, fuelled by improvements in the technology used to track animal positions – ever smaller telemetry devices, better power management, high-frequency GPS data logging, satellite communication and so on. Thanks to this technological bonanza, great strides are being made in our understanding … Continue reading Wildlife speed cameras!
A recent paper in the journal explains how remote sensing is being used to identify IBAs, sites of international significance for the conservation of birds (and other taxa), that are at greatest risk of deforestation. The Challenge For years, conservationists have been calling out for an easy-to-use method of monitoring land-cover change across sites of … Continue reading Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs), Conservation and Cloud Forests
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