Preface

Island Vital Signs is a tool that turns remotely sensed data into actionable insights that can contribute to conservation and restoration efforts on islands around the world. The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the Island Vital Signs project and its methods, explain how to access data and use the Island Vital Signs online app to visualize results, and describe several use case studies that demonstrate real-world applications of the Island Vital Signs data.

0.1 Acknowledgements

The Island Vital Signs project was funded by Salesforce Nature Accelerator and NASA Biological Diversity and Ecological Conservation award 80NSSC23K1539. The Island Vital Signs project team includes members from Island Conservation (Santa Cruz, California), Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Geneva, New York), South Dakota State University (Brookings, South Dakota), State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (Syracuse, New York), terraPulse (Gaithersburg, Maryland), and George Washingot University (Washington D.C.). Thank you to Lara Brenner, Paula A. Castaño, Cielo Figuerola, Katie Franklin, Nick Holmes, Paul Jacques, John Knapp, Stefan Kropidlowski, Amy Levine, Annie Little, Cozette Romero, Alex Wegmann, Cameron Williams, and Coral Wolf for providing early feedback with regards to the framework design and assisting with model validation.

0.2 Contacts

If you have questions about the Island Vital Signs project, please contact the project team members:

For inquiries about the remote sensing data products used in this project, please contact terraPulse at terrapulse.com