ABSTRACT
Remotely sensed imagery has the potential to add to our understanding of wetlands within the wider landscape setting and to help ensure their preservation by providing natural resource managers with more accurate and timely information for decision making. Remotely sensed data can be used to create not only maps of wetland extent and distribution but also estimates of wetland function and ecosystem services. Being able to do so at a landscape scale allows scientists and managers to identify and assess the implications of gains and losses and also better understand spatial interactions among wetlands and between wetlands and other land cover types. Using multitemporal imagery to address dynamic conditions helps identify and characterize drivers of wetland change and their impact on wetland functions and services. The full scope and effect of these drivers can usually only be detected remotely as wetlands are often difcult to access on
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