One of our greatest current challenges is the preservation and
remediation of ecosystem integrity. This requires monitoring and
assessment over large geographic areas, repeatedly over time, and cannot
be practically fulfilled by field measurements alone. Remotely sensed
imagery plays a crucial role by its ability to monitor large spatially
continuous areas. This technology increasingly provides extensive
spatial-temporal data; however, the challenge is to extract meaningful
environmental information from such extensive data. This book presents a
new method for assessing spatial pattern in raster land cover maps based
on satellite imagery in a way that incorporates multiple pixel
resolutions. This is combined with more conventional single-resolution
measurements of spatial pattern and simple non-spatial land cover
proportions to assess predictability of both surface water quality and
ecological integrity within watersheds of the state of Pennsylvania
(USA).