Remote Sensing of Tropical Dry Forests in the Americas (eBook, ePUB)

Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Redaktion: Sanchez-Azofeifa, Arturo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This second edition focuses on Tropical Dry Forests (TDF) in the Americas and provides a comprehensive overview of new studies conducted in the last decade, giving new insights into the most endangered ecosystem in the tropics. Written by experts in remote sensing, ecosystem services, and ecology, the book concentrates on four thematic areas such as LiDAR remote sensing, remote sensing and ecology, quantification of ecosystem services, and TDF ecology. The case studies presented in this edition provide information on how emerging technologies can be applied to analyze biophysical properties and the status of TDFs across different regions in Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, and Bolivia.

Features

• Includes all new content and does not replace the previous edition.
• Offers insight into the application of airborne and terrestrial laser scanning in tropical dry forests.
• Discusses ecology, remote sensing, hydrological modelling and ecosystem services.
• Includes novel information to build additional comparisons with peer-reviewed datasets.
• Highlights scientific achievements from different countries with tropical dry forests.
• Enables readers to comprehend and apply further comparative studies within the same ecosystem.

This is an excellent book for professionals, academics, and students in the fields of Remote Sensing, Hydrology, and Environmental Science, as well as for Geographers, Ecologists, and individuals involved in the management of tropical dry forests.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040390429
• Artikelnr.: 74390727

Autorenporträt

Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa is a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta and serves as the director of the University's Centre for Earth Observation Sciences (CEOS). His research combines remote sensing with ground-based wireless sensor networks to enhance environmental monitoring and climate change assessment in tropical dry forests. Dr. Sanchez-Azofeifa has received numerous accolades, including a Fulbright Fellowship, the Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship from Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment, the Canadian Forest Service Merit Award, and the Sir McMaster Fellowship from Australia's Commonwealth Science and Research Innovation Organization (CSIRO). Furthermore, he has been a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich, Germany, and he holds an adjunct professor position at the University of Helsinki, Finland. At the University of Alberta, he has been honoured with the Faculty of Science Research Award for Outstanding Contributions, the McCalla Research Professorship, and the Faculty of Science Research Fellowship, among many other distinctions. Dr. Sanchez-Azofeifa has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles and authored three books, significantly advancing the fields of environmental science and remote sensing, particularly in relation to tropical dry forests throughout the Americas.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: LiDAR Remote Sensing. 1. Review of LiDAR Technology in Tropical
Dry Forests. 2. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in Tropical
Dry Forests. 3. Emergent Trees in Tropical Dry Forests Using Airborne Laser
Scanning. 4. Aboveground Biomass and Biomass Change Estimates of Tropical
Dry Forest Using Aerial and Terrestrial LiDAR. 5. Entropy in Tropical Dry
Ecosystems. Section 2: Remote Sensing Ecology. 6. Applications of Remote
Sensing in Tropical Dry Forests to Predict Biodiversity. 7. Successional
Variation in Spectral and Biophysical Leaf Traits in Two Latin American
Tropical Dry Forests. 8. Comparing Ground-based and Remote Sensing Methods
to Assess Phenological Patterns along a Successional Gradient in a Tropical
Dry Forest. 9. Deep Learning with Synergized Airborne LiDAR and
Hyperspectral Data for Mapping Tropical Dry Forest Successional Stages. 10.
Intra- and Interannual Variation in Tree Deciduousness in a Tropical Dry
Forest in Yucatán, México: Effects of Successional Age and Topography. 11.
Resilience of Tropical Dry Forests Management Systems in the Yucatan
Peninsula. 12. Identifying Priority Zones for Reforestation in the Montane
Dry Forests of Bolivia with Machine Learning, Remote Sensing and GIS
Methods. Section 3: Ecosystem Services. 13. Environmental Drought Approach
to Understanding Droughts in Tropical Dry Forests: A Review. 14. Assessing
Water Ecosystem Services in the Conservation Area of Guanacaste, Costa
Rica: A Hydrological Modeling Approach Integrating Land Use and Ecosystem
Dynamics. 15. Quantifying Water Provisioning Services at the Guanacaste
Conservation Area, Costa Rica. Section 4: Ecology. 16. Additive
Partitioning of Phyllostomid Bat Diversity in Seasonally Dry Tropical
Forests in Minas Gerais State, Southeastern Brazil. 17. Nutrient Deposition
Dynamics along a Dry Forest Chronosequence in the Brazilian Semi-Arid
Region. 18. Unravelling the factors influencing floristic composition:
Insights from a local-scale study in Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests.