Artificial nighttime lighting from streetlights and other sources has a broad range of biological effects. Understanding the spatial and temporal levels and patterns of this lighting is a key step in determining the severity of adverse effects on different ecosystems, vegetation, and habitat types. Few such analyses have been conducted, particularly for regions with high biodiversity, including...

The impact of different surface vegetations on long-term surface temperature change is estimated by subtracting reanalysis trends in monthly surface temperature anomalies from observation trends over the last four decades. This is done using two reanalyses, namely, the 40-yr ECMWF (ERA-40) and NCEP– NCAR I (NNR), and two observation datasets, namely, Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and Global Hist...

Multi-temporal and multi-sensor satellite information can supply valuable information about vegetation species, especially in the context of biodiversity. Main focus of the presented project CARE-X is the development of a remote sensing technology for the European monitoring of NATURA 2000 areas. For this type of monitoring, information about the structure and composition of the existing vegeta...

Wildfire can be a catastrophic event in some situations; it could also be beneficial in other situations. This depends on how the land is being used, and what sort of vegetation is present. Because rangelands often have different types of vegetation on them, burning is likely to have some effect on the interrelation between plant types. It is clear that if the vegetation is removed by fire, the...

The Florida Everglades is the largest subtropical wetland system in the United States and, as with subtropical and tropical wetlands elsewhere, has been threatened by severe environmental stresses. It is very important to monitor such wetlands to inform management on the status of these fragile ecosystems. This study aims to examine the applicability of TerraSAR-X quadruple polarimetric (quad-p...

Agricultural landscapes can be characterized as a mosaic of habitat patches interspersed with hostile matrix, or as a gradient of patches ranging from suitable to unsuitable for different species. Arthropods moving through these landscapes encounter a range of edges, with different permeability. Patches of native vegetation in these landscapes may support natural enemies of crop pests by provid...

A new method for the satellite remote sensing of different types of vegetation and ocean colour is presented. In contrast to existing algorithms relying on the strong change of the reflectivity in the red and near infrared spectral region, our method analyses weak narrow-band (few nm) reflectance structures (i.e. “fingerprint” structures) of vegetation in the red spectral range. It is based on ...