Impacts of selective logging on New Georgia Island, Solomon Islands evaluated using very-high-resolution satellite (IKONOS) data

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 349-355

  Furusawa, Takuro ^a   Pahari, Krishna ^b   Umezaki, Masahiro ^c   Ohtsuka, Ryutaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b South Asian Institute of Technology   (Nepal)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asia Pacific region; Deforestation; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HARVESTING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; SELECTIVE HARVEST; TROPICAL RAINFORESTS;

LOGGING (FORESTRY);

DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; LOGGING (TIMBER); NATURE CONSERVATION; SELECTIVE LOGGING; TIMBER HARVESTING;

ARTICLE; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LOGGING; REMOTE SENSING; SOLOMON ISLANDS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

DEFORESTATION; HARVESTING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SELECTIVE CUTTING; TREES;

MELANESIA; NEW GEORGIA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOLOMON ISLANDS [(ISG) MELANESIA]; SOLOMON ISLANDS [SOLOMON ISLANDS (ISG)]; WORLD;

EID: 18544387314     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892904001638     Document Type: Article

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