21 January 2012

CSER Remote Sensing Toolkit

The aim of the toolkit is to show managers, scientists and technicians working in marine, terrestrial and atmospheric environments how images collected from satellites and aircraft (remote sensing) can be used to map and monitor environmental features or processes and their change over time.

Marine remote sensing toolkit
Marine environments encompass a broad range of environments; however, this toolkit focuses on coastal/inshore and oceanic/offshore water bodies, seagrass and coral reefs, and mangroves.
 
The following diagram shows the spectral signatures of benthic bottom types using different sensor types.

Terrestrial remote sensing toolkit
The “terrestrial” encompass a broad range of environments; this toolkit focuses on a range of generic land cover types, which are found across all ecosystems.


Atmospheric remote sensing toolkit
Atmospheric environments encompass the envelope of air surrounding the Earth, including its interfaces and interactions with the Earth's solid or liquid surface.


The toolkit provides a selection of worked examples and industry contacts for the procedures necessary to map Marine, terrestrial and atmospheric ecosystem properties from remote sensing. The following listing presents examples of typical users:  
  • Natural resource managers/policy makers - Can I use remotely sensed data (or a product derived from this) to map and monitor a terrestrial ecosystem health indicator in the range of environmental conditions experienced in the terrestrial environment I am responsible for?  
  • Natural resource scientists/technicians - Which indicators of terrestrial ecosystem health can I accurately map and monitor in my terrestrial environment using commercially available remote sensing data and what are the basic resources, personnel and time required to do this?  
  • Spatial information professionals - How can I use remote sensing to accurately map and monitor in my terrestrial environment using commercially available remote sensing data and what are the basic resources, personnel and time required to do this? 
  • Students - How can remotely sensed data be used to map and monitor terrestrial ecosystem health indicator(s) in the range of environmental conditions typically experienced in the terrestrial environment? 
  • General public - What type of information can be accurately mapped and monitored from remotely sensed data of terrestrial environments?


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