Monitoring impact of urban settlements on nearby protected areas from space

(1) AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria (christoph.aubrecht@ait.ac.at), (2) Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) and NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA, (3) GIS Research Laboratory, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, (4) National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), Boulder, CO, USA