Here's a discussion of cutting-edge remote sensing technologies used to monitor ecosystems like rainforests and coral reefs on the new episode of the Mongabay podcast, listen here,
https://news.mongabay.com/2018/02/audio-the-cutting-edge- technologies-allowing-us-to-monitor-ecosystems-like-never-before/ Our first guest is Greg Asner, who leads the Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO) at Stanford University’s Carnegie Institution for Science. Asner invented a technique he calls ” *“airborne laser-guided imaging spectroscopy"* that utilizes imaging spectrometers mounted on the Carnegie Airborne Observatory airplane to produce highly detailed data on large and complex ecosystems like tropical forests. The thing can also 'see' underwater to map reefs, can differentiate rainforest tree species, and even ID sea turtle spp as they swim at the surface. Asner and his colleague Clare LeDuff will be documenting the progress of a new project called Reefscape <https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/reefscape-a-global-reef-survey-to-build-better-satellites-for-coral-conservation/> on Mongabay, and he’ll tell us about that project to map the world's reefs and likely discover many unknown ones too, in addition to explaining the technologies he’s using to monitor the world’s rainforests. Our second guest is Mitch Aide, the principal investigator at the University of Puerto Rico’s Tropical Community Ecology Lab. In this Field Notes segment, Aide plays a few of the audio recordings he’s uploaded to Arbimon as part of his recent research and explains how these recordings are used to examine species richness in tropical forests. Please share with colleagues or students interested in acoustic ecology, spatial ecology, and tech solutions for environmental issues. Thanks, Erik -- See my latest writing and photojournalism projects here <http://www.erikhoffner.com/> *tw: @erikhoffner <https://twitter.com/ErikHoffner>*
