Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1160-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350756
