Quantifying changes in the rates of forest clearing in Indonesia from 1990 to 2005 using remotely sensed data sets

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Hansen, Matthew C ^a   Stehman, Stephen V ^b   Potapov, Peter V ^a   Arunarwati, Belinda ^c   Stolle, Fred ^d   Pittman, Kyle ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Indonesian Ministry of Forestry   (Indonesia)

^d WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Deforestation; Indonesia; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMISSION CONTROL;

CHANGE DETECTION; FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATIONS; FOREST COVER LOSS; FOREST DEGRADATION; INDONESIA; REDUCING EMISSIONS; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 70449703331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/3/034001     Document Type: Article

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