National forest cover change in Congo Basin: Deforestation, reforestation, degradation and regeneration for the years 1990, 2000 and 2005

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1173-1187

  Céline, Ernst ^a   Philippe, Mayaux ^b   Astrid, Verhegghen ^a   Catherine, Bodart ^b   Musampa, Christophe ^c   Pierre, Defourny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c Ministère de L'Environnement de Conservation de la Nature et du Tourisme Direction Inventaire et Aménagement Forestier   (Congo)

Author keywords

Congo Basin; Deforestation; Habitat monitoring; High spatial resolution; Land cover change; Object based image processing; REDD; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; FOREST COVER; HABITAT STRUCTURE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAND COVER; POPULATION DENSITY; REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; TREE;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; TREES;

CONGO BASIN;

EID: 84874738526     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12092     Document Type: Article

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