Remote sensing of forest degradation: a review

Y Gao, M Skutsch, J Paneque-Gálvez… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Forest degradation affects forest structure, composition and diversity, carbon stocks,
functionality and ecosystem processes. It is known to contribute significantly to global carbon …

Developments in Landsat land cover classification methods: A review

D Phiri, J Morgenroth - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
Land cover classification of Landsat images is one of the most important applications
developed from Earth observation satellites. The last four decades were marked by different …

Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications

MA Wulder, TR Loveland, DP Roy, CJ Crawford… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Formal planning and development of what became the first Landsat satellite commenced
over 50 years ago in 1967. Now, having collected earth observation data for well over four …

Tracking the global footprint of fisheries

DA Kroodsma, J Mayorga, T Hochberg, NA Miller… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Although fishing is one of the most widespread activities by which humans harvest natural
resources, its global footprint is poorly understood and has never been directly quantified …

Benefits of the free and open Landsat data policy

Z Zhu, MA Wulder, DP Roy, CE Woodcock… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The United States (US) federal government provides imagery obtained by federally
funded Earth Observation satellites typically at no cost. For many years Landsat was an …

Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change

P Olofsson, GM Foody, M Herold, SV Stehman… - Remote sensing of …, 2014 - Elsevier
The remote sensing science and application communities have developed increasingly
reliable, consistent, and robust approaches for capturing land dynamics to meet a range of …

[HTML][HTML] Landsat-8: Science and product vision for terrestrial global change research

DP Roy, MA Wulder, TR Loveland… - Remote sensing of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Landsat 8, a NASA and USGS collaboration, acquires global moderate-resolution
measurements of the Earth's terrestrial and polar regions in the visible, near-infrared, short …

Nondestructive estimates of above‐ground biomass using terrestrial laser scanning

K Calders, G Newnham, A Burt… - Methods in Ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Allometric equations are currently used to estimate above‐ground biomass (AGB) based on
the indirect relationship with tree parameters. Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) can measure …

Current remote sensing approaches to monitoring forest degradation in support of countries measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) systems for REDD+

AL Mitchell, A Rosenqvist, B Mora - Carbon balance and management, 2017 - Springer
Forest degradation is a global phenomenon and while being an important indicator and
precursor to further forest loss, carbon emissions due to degradation should also be …

Forest monitoring using Landsat time series data: A review

A Banskota, N Kayastha, MJ Falkowski… - Canadian Journal of …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Unique among Earth observation programs, the Landsat program has provided continuous
earth observation data for the past 41 years. Landsat data are systematically collected and …