ABSTRACT
An important component of biodiversity conservation is understanding how environmental factors in˜uence species abundance and distribution patterns, as well as how the factors change with time (Kerr and Ostrovsky 2003; Turner et al. 2003). The rapidly developing ‰eld of remote sensing has been invaluable to biodiversity conservation by providing the means of acquiring data about factors that affect species distribution and on which species distribution depend (Debinski et al. 1999). The ‰eld of remote sensing complements traditional ‰eld-based methods when collecting data about factors that affect biodiversity at different spatial and temporal frequencies.
