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Contents
Part I An Introduction to Remote Sensing Tools for Habitat
Mapping and Monitoring
Introducing the Book “The Roles of Remote Sensing
in Nature Conservation” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Ricardo Díaz-Delgado, Clive Hurford, and Richard Lucas
Towards a Mature Age of Remote Sensing for Natura 2000 Habitat
Conservation: Poor Method Transferability as a Prime Obstacle . . . . . . . . 11
Jeroen Vanden Borre, Toon Spanhove, and Birgen Haest
Pre-processing of Remotely Sensed Imagery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Peter Bunting
Long-Term Ecological Monitoring at the Landscape Scale for Nature
Conservation: The Example of Doñana Protected Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Ricardo Díaz-Delgado
Part II Habitat Case Studies
NILS – A Nationwide Inventory Program for Monitoring
the Conditions and Changes of the Swedish Landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anna Allard
Mapping Coastal Habitats in Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Gwawr Jones, Peter Bunting, and Clive Hurford
Integrated Monitoring for Biodiversity Using Remote Sensing:
From Local to Regional – A Case Study from Norfolk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Katie Medcalf, Jacqueline Parker, Gemma Bell, Paul Robinson,
Samuel Neal, Martin Horlock, and Johanna Breyer
Sub-pixel Mapping of Doñana Shrubland Species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Marcos Jiménez and Ricardo Díaz-Delgado