Nature Communications (Oct 2019)
Radar vision in the mapping of forest biodiversity from space
- Soyeon Bae,
- Shaun R. Levick,
- Lea Heidrich,
- Paul Magdon,
- Benjamin F. Leutner,
- Stephan Wöllauer,
- Alla Serebryanyk,
- Thomas Nauss,
- Peter Krzystek,
- Martin M. Gossner,
- Peter Schall,
- Christoph Heibl,
- Claus Bässler,
- Inken Doerfler,
- Ernst-Detlef Schulze,
- Franz-Sebastian Krah,
- Heike Culmsee,
- Kirsten Jung,
- Marco Heurich,
- Markus Fischer,
- Sebastian Seibold,
- Simon Thorn,
- Tobias Gerlach,
- Torsten Hothorn,
- Wolfgang W. Weisser,
- Jörg Müller
Affiliations
- Soyeon Bae
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg
- Shaun R. Levick
- CSIRO Land and Water, PMB 44
- Lea Heidrich
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg
- Paul Magdon
- Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen
- Benjamin F. Leutner
- German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), Earth Observation Center (EOC), German Aerospace Center (DLR)
- Stephan Wöllauer
- Faculty of Geography, Philipps-University Marburg
- Alla Serebryanyk
- Department of Geoinformatics, Munich University of Applied Sciences
- Thomas Nauss
- Faculty of Geography, Philipps-University Marburg
- Peter Krzystek
- Department of Geoinformatics, Munich University of Applied Sciences
- Martin M. Gossner
- Forest Entomology, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
- Peter Schall
- Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen
- Christoph Heibl
- Bavarian Forest National Park
- Claus Bässler
- Bavarian Forest National Park
- Inken Doerfler
- Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technical University of Munich
- Ernst-Detlef Schulze
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
- Franz-Sebastian Krah
- Bavarian Forest National Park
- Heike Culmsee
- DBU Natural Heritage, German Federal Foundation for the Environment
- Kirsten Jung
- Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University Ulm
- Marco Heurich
- Bavarian Forest National Park
- Markus Fischer
- Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern
- Sebastian Seibold
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg
- Simon Thorn
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg
- Tobias Gerlach
- UNESCO-Biosphere Reserve Rhön
- Torsten Hothorn
- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich
- Wolfgang W. Weisser
- Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technical University of Munich
- Jörg Müller
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12737-x
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Satellite-borne radar systems are promising tools to obtain spatial habitat data with complete geographic coverage. Here the authors show that freely available Sentinel-1 radar data perform as well as standard airborne laser scanning data for mapping biodiversity of 12 taxa across temperate forests in Germany.
