Remote sensing of selective logging impact for tropical forest management

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 188, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 161-173

  De Wasseige, Carlos ^a   Defourny, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Forest management; Remote sensing; Selective logging; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

LOGGING (FORESTRY); MONITORING; PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; TIMBER;

SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TROPICAL FORESTS;

FORESTRY;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SELECTIVE LOGGING; TROPICAL FOREST;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 0842263136     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2003.07.035     Document Type: Article

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