Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified by using multitemporal and multiresolution remotely sensed data

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 27, 2008, Pages 9439-9444

  Hansen, Matthew C ^a   Stehman, Stephen V ^b   Potapov, Peter V ^a   Loveland, Thomas R ^a,c   Townshend, John R G ^d   DeFries, Ruth S ^d   Pittman, Kyle W ^a   Arunarwati, Belinda ^e   Stolle, Fred ^f   Steininger, Marc K ^g   Carroll, Mark ^d   DiMiceli, Charlene ^d  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e Indonesian Ministry of Forestry   (Indonesia)

^f WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Deforestation; Humid tropics; Monitoring; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOME; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

GEOGRAPHY; HUMIDITY; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 48249153413     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804042105     Document Type: Article

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