TY - JOUR
T1 - Linking remote sensing and geodiversity and their traits relevant to biodiversity-Part I
T2 - Soil characteristics
AU - Lausch, Angela
AU - Baade, Jussi
AU - Bannehr, Lutz
AU - Borg, Erik
AU - Bumberger, Jan
AU - Chabrilliat, Sabine
AU - Dietrich, Peter
AU - Gerighausen, Heike
AU - Glässer, Cornelia
AU - Hacker, Jorg M.
AU - Haase, Dagmar
AU - Jagdhuber, Thomas
AU - Jany, Sven
AU - Jung, András
AU - Karnieli, Arnon
AU - Kraemer, Roland
AU - Makki, Mohsen
AU - Mielke, Christian
AU - Möller, Markus
AU - Mollenhauer, Hannes
AU - Montzka, Carsten
AU - Pause, Marion
AU - Rogass, Christian
AU - Rozenstein, Offer
AU - Schmullius, Christiane
AU - Schrodt, Franziska
AU - Schrön, Martin
AU - Schulz, Karsten
AU - Schütze, Claudia
AU - Schweitzer, Christian
AU - Selsam, Peter
AU - Skidmore, Andrew K.
AU - Spengler, Daniel
AU - Thiel, Christian
AU - Truckenbrodt, Sina C.
AU - Vohland, Michael
AU - Wagner, Robert
AU - Weber, Ute
AU - Werban, Ulrike
AU - Wollschläger, Ute
AU - Zacharias, Steffen
AU - Schaepman, Michael E.
N1 - Funding Information:
We particularly thank the researchers for the Hyperspectral Equipment of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ and TERENO funded by the Helmholtz Association and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This work was supported by funding from the Helmholtz Association in the framework of MOSES (Modular Observation Solutions for Earth Systems). At the same time we truly appreciate the support that we received from the project 'GEOEssential-Essential Variables workflows for resource efficiency and environmental management'. The authors also thank the reviewers for their very valuable comments and recommendations. The authors gratefully acknowledge the German Helmholtz Association for support of the activities. This study (Soil Moisture retrival-Figure 7c-e) was conducted under the funding of the HGF Alliance HA-310 'Remote Sensing and Earth System Dynamics'. UM is grateful to the Helmholtz funded virtual institute DESERVE. Airborne Research Australia is substantially supported by the Hackett Foundation, Adelaide. One of the ARA ECO-Dimonas was donated by the late Dr. Don and Joyce Schultz of Glen Osmond, South Australia. This research received no external funding.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by the authors.
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - In the face of rapid global change it is imperative to preserve geodiversity for the overall conservation of biodiversity. Geodiversity is important for understanding complex biogeochemical and physical processes and is directly and indirectly linked to biodiversity on all scales of ecosystem organization. Despite the great importance of geodiversity, there is a lack of suitable monitoring methods. Compared to conventional in-situ techniques, remote sensing (RS) techniques provide a pathway towards cost-effective, increasingly more available, comprehensive, and repeatable, as well as standardized monitoring of continuous geodiversity on the local to global scale. This paper gives an overview of the state-of-the-art approaches for monitoring soil characteristics and soil moisture with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and air- and spaceborne remote sensing techniques. Initially, the definitions for geodiversity along with its five essential characteristics are provided, with an explanation for the latter. Then, the approaches of spectral traits (ST) and spectral trait variations (STV) to record geodiversity using RS are defined. LiDAR (light detection and ranging), thermal and microwave sensors, multispectral, and hyperspectral RS technologies to monitor soil characteristics and soil moisture are also presented. Furthermore, the paper discusses current and future satellite-borne sensors and missions as well as existing data products. Due to the prospects and limitations of the characteristics of different RS sensors, only specific geotraits and geodiversity characteristics can be recorded. The paper provides an overview of those geotraits.
AB - In the face of rapid global change it is imperative to preserve geodiversity for the overall conservation of biodiversity. Geodiversity is important for understanding complex biogeochemical and physical processes and is directly and indirectly linked to biodiversity on all scales of ecosystem organization. Despite the great importance of geodiversity, there is a lack of suitable monitoring methods. Compared to conventional in-situ techniques, remote sensing (RS) techniques provide a pathway towards cost-effective, increasingly more available, comprehensive, and repeatable, as well as standardized monitoring of continuous geodiversity on the local to global scale. This paper gives an overview of the state-of-the-art approaches for monitoring soil characteristics and soil moisture with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and air- and spaceborne remote sensing techniques. Initially, the definitions for geodiversity along with its five essential characteristics are provided, with an explanation for the latter. Then, the approaches of spectral traits (ST) and spectral trait variations (STV) to record geodiversity using RS are defined. LiDAR (light detection and ranging), thermal and microwave sensors, multispectral, and hyperspectral RS technologies to monitor soil characteristics and soil moisture are also presented. Furthermore, the paper discusses current and future satellite-borne sensors and missions as well as existing data products. Due to the prospects and limitations of the characteristics of different RS sensors, only specific geotraits and geodiversity characteristics can be recorded. The paper provides an overview of those geotraits.
KW - Abiotic diversity
KW - Abiotic spectral traits
KW - Earth observation
KW - Geodiversity
KW - Geotraits
KW - Land surface temperature
KW - Remote sensing
KW - Soil characteristic
KW - Soil moisture
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U2 - 10.3390/rs11202356
DO - 10.3390/rs11202356
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85074212229
SN - 2072-4292
VL - 11
JO - Remote Sensing
JF - Remote Sensing
IS - 20
M1 - 2356
ER -