Title
Identifying the top 10 conservation questions that can be informed by remote sensing
Author(s)
Rose, R. A.
Published
2014
Abstract
Remote sensing plays a vital role in helping the conservation community monitor threats to the planet’s ecological systems. With rapid advancements in remote sensing technology and increasing rates of ecosystem degradation, there is a need to both help the conservation community best use remote sensing to address the most critical environmental challenges and help the remote sensing community better understand what imagery and tools would most contribute to conservation activities. With support from NASA, the Wildlife Conservation Society organized a workshop that brought together 32 leaders from the conservation and remote sensing communities, representing the academic, government and NGO sectors, in order to address these needs. The goals of the workshop were to: identify the 10 highest priority conservation challenges that could be resolved using remote sensing technologies; renew relationships within the community to address these challenges; and outline a process to re-energize a conservation remote sensing working group. During the workshop, the 300+ challenges were narrowed down to the top ten. In addition, workshop participants outlined a plan to develop a conservation remote sensing working group. This session will review the process used to conjure the initial questions and distill the list to 10, present the results, and discuss the implications of making the list broadly available to the conservation, remote sensing and donor communities.

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