remote sensing + ecology
Jan 1, 2026
2025 was a year of firsts and change, 2026 is a year of opportunity and development
Dec 24, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Its greatest value comes not from the data themselves, but from how we choose to use them.
Dec 23, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Prediction is powerful—but extrapolation carries ecological risk that must be made explicit.
Dec 22, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. The magic happens when field and remote sensing data are used together.
Dec 21, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Patterns are easy to map; understanding the processes behind them requires ecological integration.
Dec 20, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Pixels and maps simplify reality, these simplifications can mislead if we don’t think about them critically.
Dec 19, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Maps feel definitive, but uncertainty is intrinsic to all remote sensing products and interpreting it is part of ecological inference.
Dec 18, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Misleading results arise not from bad data, but from observing ecological processes at the wrong scale.
Dec 17, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Remote sensing lets ecologists see ecosystems across space and time—but what we see, and what it means, depends critically on scale.
Dec 16, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists.Today’s focus is on how ecosystems recover after disturbance, and how we can track regeneration and succession from afar.
Dec 15, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Today’s focus is on detecting and characterizing disturbance.
Dec 14, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Today’s focus is on seeing ecological stress before ecosystems visibly fail.
Dec 13, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Today’s focus is on how 3D habitat structure shapes ecological patterns.
Dec 12, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Today’s focus is on how remote sensing data power modern species distribution models.
Dec 11, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Today’s focus is on phenology! From earlier spring green-ups to drought-driven browning, remote sensing can be used to capture important shifts.
Dec 10, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Today’s focus is on canopy cover, which regulates light, temperature, moisture, habitat connectivity, and more.
Dec 9, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Today’s focus is on photogrammetry, it's lidar-like but estimated from spectral data.
Dec 8, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Today we’re finally talking about spectral bands themselves and the different ecological signalsthat they contain.
Dec 7, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Today we explore how DEMs help ecologists map the surface gradients that guide species, water, and energy
Dec 6, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Today we look at how multi-temporal remote sensing data reveal long-term trends and changes that single images can’t capture
Dec 5, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Today we're covering LULC, those deceptively simple maps that underpin habitat modelling, global change assessments, and more.
Dec 4, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Today we are introducing hyperspectral data, which captures super fine spectral information.
Dec 3, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Today’s focus is on lidar and how it can save you a lot of time from collecting 3D data in the field.
Dec 2, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for ecologists. Today’s focus is on vegetation indices like NDVI (and friends!) which can be used to translate spectral reflectance into ecological information.
Dec 1, 2025
Here’s what remote sensing can do for you as an ecologist.
Nov 21, 2025
High-resolution UAV imagery can transform ecological time series. Choice of image matching algorithm influences radiometric and geometric consistency, affecting change detection and ecological inte...
Nov 7, 2025
Ecological time series allow us to detect, model, and understand change in ecosystems through time. This post outlines key approaches and workflows for analyzing these data, from trend detection to...
Oct 17, 2025
Dendrometers provide information about the inner dynamics of trees, capturing growth, water use, and stress in real time. This makes them a useful tool for linking tree-level processes with remote ...
Oct 10, 2025
Forests are complex dynamic systems and remote sensing allows us to observe and understand forests and change across scales simultaneously — from tree-level to global changes.
Oct 3, 2025
A quick hello, what you can expect from this blog, and why remote sensing and ecology go together.