Mapping and monitoring carbon stocks in forested regions of the world, particularly the
tropics, has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years as deforestation and forest …

Five anthropogenic drivers–land use change, wood extraction, hunting, atmospheric
change, climate change–will largely determine the future of tropical forests. The geographic …

Land systems are the result of human interactions with the natural environment.
Understanding the drivers, state, trends and impacts of different land systems on social and …

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 …

This report examines the scientific basis for the use of remotely sensed data, particularly
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), primarily for the assessment of land …

Combining observations from multiple optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites
can provide temporally dense and regular information at medium resolution scale …

Reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries is
of central importance in efforts to combat climate change. Key scientific challenges must be …

Gold mining has rapidly increased in western Amazonia, but the rates and ecological
impacts of mining remain poorly known and potentially underestimated. We combined field …

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

Monitoring of forest cover and forest functions provides information necessary to support
policies and decisions to conserve, protect and sustainably manage forests. Especially in …