Monitoring of Tropical Forest Cover with Remote Sensing
An overview is provided of the use of remote sensors to monitor tropical forest coverage through vegetation indexes, mapping of forest coverage, and monitoring of its changes, as well as of the introduction of procedures to estimate forest density at the
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Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vegetation Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mapping of Tropical Forest Cover and Its Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Estimation of Tropical Forest Density and Its Use in the Monitoring of Tropical Forest Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Important Considerations in the Forest Cover Mapping Processes with Remote Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Preprocessing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interpretation and Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Checklist for Digital Classification Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Abstract
An overview is provided of the use of remote sensors to monitor tropical forest coverage through vegetation indexes, mapping of forest coverage, and monitoring of its changes, as well as of the introduction of procedures to estimate forest density at the pixel level as a continuous spatial and temporal variable. Finally, a summary is presented of the important considerations for tropical forest coverage mapping processes with remote sensors.
A.J. Jimenez Galo (*) Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing (GIS/RS), Deutsche Gesellschaft f€ ur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, La Libertad, El Salvador, CA University of Alcalá (UAH), Madrid, Spain Faculty of Spatial SciencesTegucigalpa, Universidad Nacional Auto´noma de Honduras (UNAH), Tegucigalpa, Honduras e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016 L. Pancel, M. Ko¨hl (eds.), Tropical Forestry Handbook, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-54601-3_145
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Keywords
Forest monitoring • Vegetation indexes • Global land cover • Vegetation continuous fields • Forest cover mapping
Introduction After almost 50 years of using remote sensors
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