ABSTRACT
Yeqiao Wang, Zhengfang Wu, Hongyan Zhang, Jiquan Zhang, Jiawei Xu, Xing Yuan, Zhong Lu, Yuyu Zhou, and Jiang Feng
Protected areas have long been the cornerstones of conservation (Wiens et al., 2009). Protected areas provide places in which populations and species can persist and communities and ecosystems can carry out ecological functions. Inventory and monitoring of protected lands and the supporting ecosystems become critically important under the facts of intensi‰ed human-induced land-use and land-cover change (LULCC), fragmentation of habitats, and effects of climate changes. This is particularly true for regions
CONTENTS
11.1 Introduction ................................................................................................ 203 11.1.1 About the Changbai Mountain Region ...................................... 204 11.1.2 Natural Resources and Ecological Security Concerns ............. 207
11.2 Remote Sensing Data and Capacities ...................................................... 210 11.3 Remote Sensing Assessment of Natural Resources and
Ecological Security .................................................................................... 212 11.3.1 LULCC Perspective ........................................................................ 212 11.3.2 Remote Sensing of Volcanic Risks ............................................... 215 11.3.3 Assessment of Vegetation Succession following
Volcanic Eruption Impacts ........................................................... 220 11.3.4 Remote Sensing and Modeling for Assessing Ecological Security ........................................................................222 11.3.5 Remote Sensing in Regional Inventory and Monitoring .........225
