Global forest monitoring from earth observation

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Achard, Frédéric, Hansen, Matthew C.
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2013.
SeriesEarth observation of global changes
Subjects
Forests and forestry > Remote sensing.
Forest monitoring.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781466552029
Physical Descriptionxiv, 330 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Why forest monitoring matters for people and the planet / Ruth DeFries
  • 2. Role of forests and impact of deforestation in the global carbon cycle / Richard A. Houghton
  • 3. Use of earth observation technology to monitor forests across the globe / Frédéric Achard and Matthew C. Hansen
  • 4. Global data availability from U.S. satellites : Landsat and MODIS / Thomas R. Loveland and Matthew C. Hansen
  • 5. Sampling strategies for forest monitoring from global to national levels / Stephen V. Stehman
  • 6. Use of coarse-resolution imagery to identify hot spots of forest loss at the global scale / Matthew C. Hansen, Peter Potapov, and Svetlana Turubanova
  • 7. Use of a systematic statistical sample with moderate-resolution imagery to assess forest cover changes at tropical to global scale / Frédéric Achard ... [et al.]
  • 8. Monitoring forest loss and degradation at national to global scales using Landsat data / Peter Potapov ... [et al.]
  • 9. The Brazilian Amazon monitoring program : PRODES and DETER projects / Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro ... [et al.]
  • 10. Monitoring of forest degradation : a review of methods in the Amazon Basin / Carlos Souza, Jr.
  • 11. Use of wall-to-wall moderate- and high-resolution satellite imagery to monitor forest cover across Europe / Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz ... [et al.]
  • 12. Monitoring U.S. forest dynamics with Landsat / Jeffrey G. Masek and Sean P. Healey
  • 13. Long-term monitoring of Australian land cover change using Landsat data : development, implementation, and operation / Peter Caccetta ... [et al.]
  • 14. Assessment of burned forest areas over the Russian Federation from MODIS and Landsat-TM/ETM+ imagery / Sergey Bartalev ... [et al.]
  • 15. Global forest monitoring with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data / Richard Lucas ... [et al.]
  • 16. Future perspectives (way forward) / Alan Belward ... [et al.].

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