Research supported by the FP7-funded EU BON project has shown that satellite remote sensing (SRS) has proven to be one of the most cost-effective approaches to identify biodiversity hotspots and predict changes in species composition.
Published in the journal «Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation», the research examines the real potential of SRS, as well as the pitfalls that need to be avoided to achieve its full potential. The study takes the assessment of diversity in plant communities as a case study. Showing the difficulties to achieve high results by relying only on field data, the paper discusses the advantages of SRS methods.
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