Applications of Remote Sensing to Alien Invasive Plant Studies

By Cho‐ying Huang, Gregory P. Asner. Italian National Conference on Sensors, 2009

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Biological invasions can affect ecosystems across a wide spectrum of bioclimatic conditions. Therefore, it is often important to systematically monitor the spread of species over a broad region. Remote sensing has been an important tool for large-scale ecological studies in the past three decades, but it was not commonly used to study alien invasive plants until the mid 1990s. We synthesize previous research efforts on remote sensing of invasive plants from spatial, temporal and spectral perspectives. We also highlight a recently developed state-of-the-art image fusion technique that integrates passive and active energies concurrently collected by an imaging spectrometer and a scanning-waveform light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system, respectively. This approach provides a means to detect the structure and functional properties of invasive plants of different canopy levels. Finally, we summarize regional studies of biological invasions using remote sensing, discuss the limitations of remote sensing approaches, and highlight current research needs and future directions.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecological Modeling

1. Petr Pyšek
2. D. Richardson
3. Jan Pergl
4. P. Hulme
5. S. Bacher
6. John R. U. Wilson
7. Jane A. Catford
8. I. Kühn

In Ecology

1. Petr Pyšek
2. D. Richardson
3. John R. U. Wilson
4. Jan Pergl
5. P. Hulme
6. S. Bacher
7. I. Kühn
8. T. Blackburn

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Petr Pyšek
2. D. Richardson
3. Jan Pergl
4. John R. U. Wilson
5. P. Hulme
6. I. Kühn
7. Jane A. Catford
8. S. Bacher

Citations in the corpus

• Will remote sensing shape the next generation of species distribution models? (2015, background): “As demonstrated below, these limitations can be overcome in certain cases by using remotely derived species occurrence records.”
• Potential of remote sensing to predict species invasions (2015, background): “Table 1 represents a summary of the use of different remote sensing sensors and data analysis to solve ecological issues related to species invasion, while readers are referred to Underwood et al. (2007) and Huang and Asner (2009) for a description of case studies comparing different sensor types.”
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