Investigating the Remote Sensing of Biodiversity
Project lead: Jessica Mitchell
SAL is developing new techniques to directly map environmentally diverse locations on the ground using laser scanning and image spectroscopy from airborne platforms (). Specifically, we are developing methods for measuring biodiversity indicators using National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) field and Airborne Observatory Platform datasets collected at seven sites along a latitudinal gradient in US temperate, broadleaf, and mixed forests. The mapping products will be integrated with broader scale environmental variables for predictive hotspot modeling and testing controls on macroscale patterns. See some preliminary findings in this poster presented by Di Yang at the 2019 AGU Fall Meeting.
A for calculating biodiversity metrics fro NEON field data is available. Stay tuned for a second tutorial on relating field and airborne biodiversity data.
Another aspect of this project is hosting two workshops in conjunction with faculty. Participants in have summarized their findings in a poster entitled Research Outreach: Leveraging NEON Data to Investigate Remote Sensing of Biodiversity Variables presented at the annual MSB PI meeting in Boulder, CO, May 2019.
NEON sites in the eastern United States.
