Radar vision in the mapping of forest biodiversity from space

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...

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Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12737-x