Challenges and opportunities in harnessing satellite remote-sensing for biodiversity monitoring

a Department of Agro-Environmental and Territorial Sciences, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy b Department of Economy, University of Foggia, Largo Papa Giovanni Paolo II, 1, 71100 Foggia, Italy c School of Animal Biology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia d CSIRO Land and Water Flagship, Centre for Environment and Life Sciences, Underwood Ave, Floreat, WA 6014, Australia e National Research Council — Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation (CNR-ISSIA), Via G. Amendola 122, 70126 Bari, Italy f Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science, The University of NSW, High Street, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia g School of Development, Azim Premji University, PES Institute of Technology Campus, Pixel Park, B Block, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100, India h Fondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation Centre, Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Via E. Mach 1, 38010 S Michele all' Adige, TN, Italy