Remote sensing of vegetation 3‐D structure for biodiversity and habitat: Review and implications for lidar and radar spaceborne missions

KM Bergen, SJ Goetz, RO Dubayah… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity and habitat face increasing pressures due to human and natural influences that
alter vegetation structure. Because of the inherent difficulty of measuring forested vegetation …

Remote sensing for monitoring tropical dryland forests: A review of current research, knowledge gaps and future directions for Southern Africa

RM David, NJ Rosser… - Environmental Research …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Climate change, manifest via rising temperatures, extreme drought, and associated
anthropogenic activities, has a negative impact on the health and development of tropical …

Extent and conservation of tropical dry forests in the Americas

CA Portillo-Quintero, GA Sánchez-Azofeifa - Biological conservation, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper shows the results of an assessment on the current extent of Neotropical dry
forests based on a supervised classification of MODIS surface reflectance imagery at 500-m …

Predictive relations of tropical forest biomass from Landsat TM data and their transferability between regions

GM Foody, DS Boyd, MEJ Cutler - Remote sensing of environment, 2003 - Elsevier
The full realization of the potential of remote sensing as a source of environmental
information requires an ability to generalize in space and time. Here, the ability to generalize …

Research Priorities for Neotropical Dry Forests1

GA Sánchez‐Azofeifa, M Quesada… - … : The Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of the human and biophysical dimensions of tropical dry forest change
and its cumulative effects is still in the early stages of academic discovery. The papers in this …

Aboveground biomass retrieval in tropical forests—The potential of combined X-and L-band SAR data use

S Englhart, V Keuck, F Siegert - Remote sensing of environment, 2011 - Elsevier
In the context of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) and
the international effort to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, a reliable …

Regional aboveground forest biomass using airborne and spaceborne LiDAR in Québec

J Boudreau, RF Nelson, HA Margolis… - Remote Sensing of …, 2008 - Elsevier
Aboveground dry biomass was estimated for the 1.3 M km2 forested area south of the
treeline in the eastern Canadian province of Québec by combining data from an airborne …

Estimating tropical forest biomass with a combination of SAR image texture and Landsat TM data: An assessment of predictions between regions

MEJ Cutler, DS Boyd, GM Foody, A Vetrivel - ISPRS Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Quantifying the above ground biomass of tropical forests is critical for understanding the
dynamics of carbon fluxes between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere, as well as …

Remote sensing of tropical forest environments: towards the monitoring of environmental resources for sustainable development

GM Foody - International journal of remote sensing, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
The potential to derive indicators of sustainable resource use from satellite remote sensing
is discussed. Particular attention focuses on indicators related to land cover condition and …

Globalization, forest resurgence, and environmental politics in El Salvador

SB Hecht, S Kandel, I Gomes, N Cuellar, H Rosa - World Development, 2006 - Elsevier
Globalization is often viewed as a driver of deforestation, but there are contexts where it
promotes forest recovery. This is the case in El Salvador. In spite of population densities in …