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Remote Sensing Applications for Monitoring Terrestrial Protected Areas: Progress in the Last Decade

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  • Lijun Mao

    (College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
    College of Criminal Science and Technology, Nanjing Forest Police College, Nanjing 210023, China)

  • Mingshi Li

    (College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
    Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China)

  • Wenjuan Shen

    (College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China)

Abstract

Terrestrial protected areas (PAs) play an essential role in maintaining biodiversity and ecological processes worldwide, and the monitoring of PAs is a useful tool in assessing the effectiveness of PA management. Advanced remote sensing technologies have been increasingly used for mapping and monitoring the dynamics of PAs. We review the advances in remote sensing-based approaches for monitoring terrestrial PAs in the last decade and identify four types of studies in this field: land use & land cover and vegetation community classification, vegetation structure quantification, natural disturbance monitoring, and land use & land cover and vegetation dynamic analysis. We systematically discuss the satellite data and methods used for monitoring PAs for the four research objectives. Moreover, we summarize the approaches used in the different types of studies. The following suggestions are provided for future studies: (1) development of remote sensing frameworks for local PA monitoring worldwide; (2) comprehensive utilization of multisource remote sensing data; (3) improving methods to investigate the details of PA dynamics; (4) discovering the driving forces and providing measures for PA management. Overall, the integration of remote sensing data and advanced processing methods can support PA management and decision-making procedures.

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  • Lijun Mao & Mingshi Li & Wenjuan Shen, 2020. "Remote Sensing Applications for Monitoring Terrestrial Protected Areas: Progress in the Last Decade," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(12), pages 1-27, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:12:p:5016-:d:373622
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