Satellite Remote Sensing for Conservation Action
Case Studies from Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems

Editors

Allison K. Leidner, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington DC
Allison K. Leidner is a conservation biologist and currently works at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, for the Earth Science Division. She leads activities within the Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Programs, which support the use of remote sensing for basic research and decision-support applications. She also coordinates a variety of climate assessment activities for NASA. Her former research program focused on the ecology and conservation of rare and endangered species. In 2014, she received a NASA Special Service Award for her efforts related to the development of the Third National Climate Assessment. She is contracted to NASA via ASRC Federal.

Graeme M. Buchanan, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), Edinburgh
Graeme M. Buchanan is a Principal Conservation Scientist at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (the UK BirdLife Partner). He has a background in field ecology and ornithology and he has been using remote sensing data for a wide variety of purposes to inform conservation decision making and prioritisations in the UK and globally for around fifteen years. He is on the British Ornithologist's Union Council, and is an editor for the journals Bird Conservation International and Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation.

Contributors

Graeme M. Buchanan, Allison K. Leidner, Andreas Brink, Cindy Schmidt, Zoltan Szantoi, Nicholas J. Murray, Samuel Jantz, Lilian Pintea, Janet Nackoney, Matthew Hansen, Ilaria Palumbo, Paula Escribano, Néstor Fernández, Mark Hebblewhite, Mark Hurley, Paul Lukacs, Josh Nowak, Helen Bailey, Elliott Hazen, Bruce Mate, Steven J. Bograd, Ladd Irvine, Daniel M. Palacios, Karin A. Forney, Evan Howell, Aimee Hoover, Lynn DeWitt, Jessica Wingfield, Monica DeAngelis, Karyn Tabor, Jennifer Hewson