How to integrate remotely sensed data and biodiversity for ecosystem assessments at landscape scale

Vihervaara, Petteri; Mononen, Laura; Auvinen, Ari-Pekka; Virkkala, Raimo; Lü, Yihe; Pippuri, Inka; Packalén, Petteri; Valbuena, Rubén; Valkama, Jari

doi:10.1007/s10980-014-0137-5

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“…Essential limitations were also that the data were only available for research purposes and had not been systematically collected. The lack of comprehensive spatial data on species is a common problem (Vihervaara et al 2015). One option to overcome this constraint is habitat suitability modeling, which is increasingly used to locate potential habitats of threatened or rare species (e.g., López-López et al 2007, Aizpura et al 2015.…”

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A method for assessing ecological values to reconcile multiple land use needs

Kangas¹,

Tolvanen²,

Tarvainen³

et al. 2016

E&S

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ABSTRACT. We present a new method for ecologically sustainable land use planning within multiple land use schemes. Our aims were (1) to develop a method that can be used to locate important areas based on their ecological values; (2) to evaluate the quality, quantity, availability, and usability of existing ecological data sets; and (3) to demonstrate the use of the method in Eastern Finland, where there are requirements for the simultaneous development of nature conservation, tourism, and recreation. We compiled all available ecological data sets from the study area, complemented the missing data using habitat suitability modeling, calculated the total ecological score (TES) for each 1 ha grid cell in the study area, and finally, demonstrated the use of TES in assessing the success of nature conservation in covering ecologically valuable areas and locating ecologically sustainable areas for tourism and recreational infrastructure. The method operated quite well at the level required for regional and local scale planning. The quality, quantity, availability, and usability of existing data sets were generally high, and they could be further complemented by modeling. There are still constraints that limit the use of the method in practical land use planning. However, as increasing data become available and open access, and modeling tools improve, the usability and applicability of the method will increase.

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Section: Methods and Data Evaluationmentioning

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A method for assessing ecological values to reconcile multiple land use needs

Kangas¹,

Tolvanen²,

Tarvainen³

et al. 2016

E&S

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“…Second, geoscene-segmentation scale refers to the heterogeneities of segmented geoscenes, while the scale of image tile directly measures their sizes (Figure 22d-f) [30,56]. In practice, multiscale geoscenes are more suitable than multiresolution image tiles for analyzing UFZs at multiple scales [57][58][59]. For example, if we want to investigate UFZs at a fine granularity, a small geoscene-segmentation scale will be used.…”

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Multiscale Geoscene Segmentation for Extracting Urban Functional Zones from VHR Satellite Images

Zhang

Wang

et al. 2018

Remote Sensing

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Urban functional zones, such as commercial, residential, and industrial zones, are basic units of urban planning, and play an important role in monitoring urbanization. However, historical functional-zone maps are rarely available for cities in developing countries, as traditional urban investigations focus on geographic objects rather than functional zones. Recent studies have sought to extract functional zones automatically from very-high-resolution (VHR) satellite images, and they mainly concentrate on classification techniques, but ignore zone segmentation which delineates functional-zone boundaries and is fundamental to functional-zone analysis. To resolve the issue, this study presents a novel segmentation method, geoscene segmentation, which can identify functional zones at multiple scales by aggregating diverse urban objects considering their features and spatial patterns. In experiments, we applied this method to three Chinese cities-Beijing, Putian, and Zhuhai-and generated detailed functional-zone maps with diverse functional categories. These experimental results indicate our method effectively delineates urban functional zones with VHR imagery; different categories of functional zones extracted by using different scale parameters; and spatial patterns that are more important than the features of individual objects in extracting functional zones. Accordingly, the presented multiscale geoscene segmentation method is important for urban-functional-zone analysis, and can provide valuable data for city planners.

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“…The use of modern monitoring techniques for enhancing implementation of the Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBV) concept in ecosystem assessments (e.g. for CBD and IPBES) has been recently suggested (Skidmore et al, 2015;Vihervaara et al, 2015).…”

Section: Key Datasetsmentioning

confidence: 99%