Sensor capabilities for deforestation and forest degradation

Author

Milne, A.K. ; Mitchell, A.L. ; Williams, M. ; Tapley, I. ; Kuntz, S.

Author_Institution

Cooperative Res. Centre for Spatial Inf. (CRC-SI), Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

3154

Lastpage

3157

Abstract

The FCT Task focuses on demonstrating through coordinated Earth Observations data acquisitions and the development of standardised processing and analytical techniques by researchers in different countries under what are called ´National Demonstrator´ programs that remotely sensed products can provide the information needed for national forest inventories and UNFCCC reporting. In this paper the results of research involving the mapping of forest extent and land cover change in Tasmania and forest degradation in Columbia are presented.

Keywords

data acquisition; forestry; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; Columbia; Earth Observation data acquisitions; FCT task; National Demonstrator programs; Tasmania; UNFCCC; analytical techniques; deforestation degradation; forest degradation; forest mapping; land cover change; national forest inventories; remote sensing; sensor capabilities; standardised processing techniques; Carbon; Degradation; Earth; Monitoring; Remote sensing; Satellites; Synthetic aperture radar; MRV systems; SAR; forest assessment; remote sensing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350756

Filename

6350756