Priorities to Advance Monitoring of Ecosystem Services Using Earth Observation.

Managing ecosystem services in the context of global sustainability policies requires reliable monitoring mechanisms. While satellite Earth observation offers great promise to support this need, significant challenges remain in quantifying connections between ecosystem functions, ecosystem services, and human well-being benefits. Here, we provide a framework showing how Earth observation together with socioeconomic information and model-based analysis can support assessments of ecosystem service supply, demand, and benefit, and illustrate this for three services. We argue that the full potential of Earth observation is not yet realized in ecosystem service studies. To provide guidance for priority setting and to spur research in this area, we propose five priorities to advance the capabilities of Earth observation-based monitoring of ecosystem services.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution

• Publication date

  2017-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Business, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2017.03.003PMID 28411950
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