Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management: Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management

damen, m. c. j.

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Title:: Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management

Sub title:: proceedings of the 7th international Symposium, Enschede, 25 - 29 August 1986

Year of publication:: 1986

Place of publication:: Rotterdam; Boston

Publisher of the original:: A. A. Balkema

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Language:: English

Additional Notes:: Volume 1-3 erschienen von 1986-1988

Editor:: Damen, M. C. J.

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Persistent identifier:: 856641294

Title:: Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management

Sub title:: proceedings of the 7th international Symposium, Enschede, 25 - 29 August 1986

Scope:: IX Seiten, Seiten 551-956

Year of publication:: 1986

Place of publication:: Rotterdam; Boston

Publisher of the original:: A,. A. Balkema

Identifier (digital):: 856641294

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Language:: English

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Editor:: Damen, M. C. J.

Editor:: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Commission of Photographic and Remote Sensing Data

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

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Title:: 7 Human settlements: Urban surveys, human settlement analysis and archaeology. Chairman: W. G. Collins, Co-chairman: B. C. Forster, Liaison: P. Hofstee

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Title:: The application of remote sensing to urban bird ecology. L. M. Baines & W. G. Collins

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795 Symposium on Remote Sensing for Resources Development and Environmental Management / Enschede / August 1986 The application of remote sensing to urban bird ecology L.M.Baines & W.G.Collins Remote Sensing Unit, University of Aston, Birmingham, UK P. Robins Operational Research, University of Aston, Birmingham, UK ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to assess the feasibility of a remote sensing system to determine the carrying capacity of urban habitats for certain species, in this instance, woodland birds. Investigations were carried out into the relationship between variables which can be identified from the air photographs and bird populations. The major variables examined were habitat area and habitat dispersion. Evidence of an relationship between the number of bird species and habitat area was found, but as yet the results are too inconclusive to allow predictions. 1 INTRODUCTION The value of green areas in the urban environment has been recognised by many offical bodies in recent years. "Everyday contact with the natural world is essential to a healthy physical, mental and spiritual existence". (Nature Conservancy Council, 1984). Increasingly statutory bodies and local authorities are aware of the role they play to ensure urban wildlife is considered in planning and land management decisions. Recently the now-extinct West Midlands County Council produced a valuable document "The Nature Conservation Strategy for the County of West Midlands" which stressed the need for the enhancement or creation of semi-natural open spaces to benefit urban wildlife and the residential population. This trend is not only evident in the UK, but throughout the 'developed world'. However semi-natural open space is only one of the competing land uses in the urban environment and therefore a compromise will always have to be made between the demand for green areas and the demand for development. As a consequence there is a need for a method to identify which areas are valuable ecologically and thus try, if possible, to steer development away from these to less valuable options. One method of allocating a value to urban open space is to identify the area's carrying capacity for a species of interest. The aim of this paper is to assess the feasibility of aerial photography to determine the bird carrying capacity of an urban woodland. If it is possible to predict bird population numbers from air photographs the population rate of change due to development can be determined. Aerial photographs have been used in a number of studies concerned with bird population prediction, (Skaley 1981, Lancaster and Rees 1979), however either the technique has been too complex or the photographs have been used merely as an addition to field data rather than as a data source in themselves. 2 THE STUDY AREA The Blackbrook Valley is situated in the heart of the industrial Black Country in the West Midlands. It is approximately 300 hectares of common land in a dense industrial and residential area. The heavy industry which once dominated this area has declined leaving high unemployment and dereliction. As a method to try and encourage industry back into the region, the northern section of the Blackbrook Valley was designated an Enterprise Zone in 1981. One of the attractions of an Enterprise Zone to industry is the lack of planning controls therefore industrial development has and is posing a threat to a valuable wildlife area. A local nature reserve has been established in the southern part of the valley - Saltswells Nature Reserve (41.2 hectares). This is comprised of a large area of mixed deciduous woodland planted at the end of the eighteenth century and an abandoned fireclay pit which has geological and ecological value. The anaylsis has concentrated on the nature reserve. 3 MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT The Nature Conservancy Council (N.C.C.) commissioned two sets of imagery of the study area. Large scale panchromatic, colour and colour infra-red photography (1:2500) was flown in the summers of 1981 and 1984 providing complete coverage of the area. Interpretation was carried out using an old Delft stereoscope and the colour infra-red photography. This emulsion was found to provide the greatest amount of detail for this particular project. A monoscopic zoom transferscope was used to transfer the information extracted from the air photographs on to a 1:2500 scale base map.

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