Full-coverage mapping and updating of habitat characteristics for regional biodiversity monitoring and integrated landscape management

阿尔伯塔人口和自然资源型经济的持续增长和发展，导致了对有效土地管理和生态管理战略的强烈需求。阿尔伯塔政府为满足这一需求于2008年通过的《土地使用框架》旨在促进地方合作管理，使产业、社区和政府共同努力，改进土地使用决策，使其符合区域规划准则，并降低目前生物多样性丧失的速度。 因此，阿尔伯塔迫切需要建立和维护一个共享的资料库，其中载有关于上述代理人运作的景观状况的高质量地方一级信息。然而，迄今为止还没有这样的储存库。为了填补这一空白，我们将在地理信息系统（GIS）中进行现代遥感技术和数据集利用的研究，目标是创建一个最新的本地栖息地信息库，可以通过互联网提供给土地管理者和决策者。一旦完成，该项目将展示一个战略，提供当地的栖息地状况，这将有助于我们确定的原因，观察到的变化，在阿尔伯塔的生物多样性。此外，这项研究将帮助我们预测未来的生物多样性条件，可能会导致不同的管理方案。我们的工作旨在使整个阿尔伯塔的工业、政府和非政府组织受益，并为其他省和国家的监测方案提供一个实际的例子。

The continuing growth and development of Alberta's population and natural resource-based economy has resulted in a strong need for effective land management and ecological stewardship strategies. The Land-use Framework (LuF), adopted by the Government of Alberta in 2008 to address this need, is designed to promote collaborative local management, whereby industry, communities, and governments work together to achieve improved land-use decision-making that meets regional planning guidelines, and reduce the current rate of biodiversity loss. As a result there is a pressing need in Alberta to create and maintain a shared repository with high-quality local-level information on the status of the landscapes in which the above agents operate. However, to date no such repository exists. To fill this gap, we will conduct research on the exploitation of modern remote sensing technologies and data sets within a Geographic Information System (GIS), with the goal of creating a repository of up-to-date local habitat information that can be made available to land managers and decision-makers through the internet. Once complete, this project will demonstrate a strategy for providing local information on habitat status, which will help us identify the causes that underlie observed changes in biodiversity in Alberta. In addition, this research will help us predict future biodiversity conditions that may result from different management scenarios. Our work is designed to benefit industrial, government, and non-governmental organizations throughout Alberta, and provide a practical example for other provincial and national monitoring programs.