Use of Landsat and SRTM Data to Detect Broad-Scale Biodiversity Patterns in Northwestern Amazonia 英文参考文献.docVIP

Remote Sens. 2012, 4, 2401-2418; doi:10.3390/rs4082401 OPEN ACCESS Remote Sensing ISSN 2072-4292 /journal/remotesensing Article Use of Landsat and SRTM Data to Detect Broad-Scale Biodiversity Patterns in Northwestern Amazonia Mark A. Higgins 1,*, Gregory P. Asner 1, Eneas Perez 2, Nydia Elespuru 2, Hanna Tuomisto 3, Kalle Ruokolainen 3 and Alfonso Alonso 4 1 Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; E-Mail: gpa@ 2 Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquitos, Peru; E-Mails: eneasperez@ (E.P.); nydia_valeria@ (N.E.) 3 Department of Biology, University of Turku, FI-20100 Turku, Finland; E-Mails: hanna.tuomisto@utu.fi (H.T.); kalle.ruokolainen@utu.fi (K.R.) 3 Center for Conservation Education and Sustainability, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC 20013, USA; E-Mail: alonsoa@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: higginsm@; Tel.: +1-650-462-1047; Fax: +1-650-462-5968. Received: 20 June 2012; in revised form: 10 August 2012 / Accepted: 10 August 2012 / Published: 15 August 2012 Abstract: Vegetation maps are the starting point for the design of protected areas and regional conservation plans. Accurate vegetation maps are missing for much of Amazonia, preventing the development of effective and compelling conservation strategies. Here we used a network of 160 inventories across northwestern Amazonia to evaluate the use of Landsat and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data to identify floristic and edaphic patterns in Amazonian forests. We first calculated the strength of the relationship between these remotely-sensed data, and edaphic and floristic patterns in these forests, and asked how sensitive these results are to image processing and enhancement. We additionally asked if SRTM data can be used to model patterns in plant