ABSTRACT
Surveys for monitoring changes and trends in our environment and its resources involve some unusual conceptual and methodological issues pertaining to the observer, the observed, and the observational process. In this paper, we briefly introduce some of the novel methods of ecological and environmental sampling and present some of the relevant research in progress at the Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics in these innovative methods with some emphasis relating to the remote sensing satellite imagery. Keith (1996) may be a good source of additional information.
