Semantic segmentation has a broad range of applications in a variety of domains including
land coverage analysis, autonomous driving, and medical image analysis. Convolutional …

Forest degradation is a global environmental issue, but its definition is problematic.
Difficulties include choosing appropriate reference states, timescales, thresholds, and forest …

The island of Madagascar has a unique biodiversity, mainly located in the tropical forests of
the island. This biodiversity is highly threatened by anthropogenic deforestation. Existing …

There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and
conservation but this is the first book to focus explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference …

Remote sensing data play an important role in the monitoring of forest changes. Methods
are needed to provide objective estimates of forest loss to support monitoring efforts at …

Efforts to mitigate climate change through the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and
Degradation (REDD) depend on mapping and monitoring of tropical forest carbon stocks …

This study examines whether policies to encourage cattle ranching intensification in Brazil
can abate global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by sparing land from deforestation. We …

Land cover has been designated by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) as an
Essential Climate Variable due to its integral role in many climate and environmental …

Historical baselines of forest cover are needed to understand the causes and consequences
of recent changes and to assess the effectiveness of land-use policies. However, historical …

Forest degradation is broadly defined as a reduction in the capacity of a forest to produce
ecosystem services such as carbon storage and wood products as a result of anthropogenic …