Abstract:

Remote sensing (RS), Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies play increasingly important role in ornithology study, including habitat evaluation, habitat modeling and monitoring programmes and in achieving overall wildlife conservation and management objectives effectively, especially with a large range of scales and for remote regions where few habitat studies have been undertaken to date due to difficult to access but those studies are urgently needed. In this paper, satellite-based imageries, methodologies in acquisition of satellite information, and application of GIS in avian habitat study were reviewed. In order to improve the quality of inference and for comparative analyses, some improvement suggestion was proposed based on the analysis of selection of source and time of satellite imageries, and approaches of information acquisition and bird ground survey.

Key words: 3S technologies, avian habitat, remote sensing information acquisition, habitat monitoring and evaluation, prediction of species distribution