Roads as drivers of change: Trajectories across the tri-national frontier in MAP, the southwestern Amazon

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1047-1066

  Southworth, Jane ^a   Marsik, Matt ^b   Qiu, Youliang ^a   Perz, Stephen ^a   Cumming, Graeme ^c   Stevens, Forrest ^a   Rocha, Karla ^a   Duchelle, Amy ^d   Barnes, Grenville ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Deforestation; Infrastructure; MAP; Roads

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICAL CONDITIONS; CHANGE PREDICTION; CONNECTIVITY; DISTANCE VALUES; DYNAMIC REGION; FOREST AREA; FOREST COVER; FOREST LOSS; GLOBAL ECONOMIES; INFRASTRUCTURE; INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS; LAND COVER; LAND-COVER CHANGE; MULTI-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ROAD CONNECTIVITY; ROADS;

DROPS; LANDFORMS; PAVEMENTS;

DEFORESTATION;

DEFORESTATION; DROPS; FORESTS; PAVEMENTS; ROADS;

EID: 80052467240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3051047     Document Type: Article

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