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Remote Sensing in Landscape Ecology: Experiences and Perspectives in a European Context

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That the relationship between remote sensing and landscape ecology is significant is due in large part to the strong spatial component within landscape ecology. However it is nevertheless necessary to have frequent overview of the interface between remote sensing and landscape ecology, particularly in the light of developments in the types of image data and techniques. The use of remote sensing within European landscape ecology provides a rich range of examples of the interface, including application of some of the latest types of image data. This paper is an overview of the interface that remote sensing has with European landscape ecology, with seven examples of the application of image data in European landscape ecology and examination of associated landscape classification issues. These examples are discussed in terms of the trends and the different roles for image data in landscape ecology that they illustrate, and in particular their classificatory and informational implications. It is suggested that with regard to classification there is a need for re-examination of the roles of image data.

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  1. Department of Wildlife Ecology and Biodiversity, National Environmental Research Institute, Kaloe, Grenaavej 14, DK-8410, Roende, Denmark

    Geoff Groom

  2. Centre for Geo-Information, Alterra – Green World Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    C. A. Mücher

  3. Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Unit for Ecological Geography, University of Stockholm, Sweden

    Margareta Ihse

  4. Institute of Ecology and Conservation Biology, University of Vienna, Austria

    Thomas Wrbka

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Groom, G., Mücher, C.A., Ihse, M. et al. Remote Sensing in Landscape Ecology: Experiences and Perspectives in a European Context. Landscape Ecol 21, 391–408 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-004-4212-1

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