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Monitoring the conservation status of natural habitats is an essential aspect of effective conservation management. Not only data on habitat occurrence are needed, but also detailed information on the structural and functional characteristics of the habitat patches is crucial for an adequate conservation status assessment. Classification of hyperspectral remote sensing images performs well in discriminating...
The implementation of the Habitats Directive (Hab-Dir) in 1992 has been a major step towards a more harmonized approach to nature conservation in the European Union (EU). Member states granted legal protection to habitats and species listed by the HabDir, and designated areas of high nature value as Natura 2000 sites. But legal designation and protection is not enough: sites need to be managed appropriately,...
This article presents a method for acquiring habitat maps, intended for monitoring and evaluating the conservation status of heathland vegetation, starting from thematic land cover maps. The procedure is a modified kernel-based reclassification technique, that fits into a complete habitat quality assessment framework. Part one of the procedure shifts a small square kernel over the land cover map and...
Natura 2000, an EU-wide network of nature protection areas, has as main objective the achievement or maintenance of a favorable conservation status of habitats protected by the EU Habitats directives. Within this framework, this study examines a strategy to characterize the status of heathland vegetation from airborne hyperspectral AHS data in the Kalmthoutse Heide, Flanders, Belgium. A hierarchical...
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