Baseline data on forest loss and associated uncertainty: Advances in national forest monitoring

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Pelletier, Johanne ^a   Goetz, Scott J ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

forest cover change; national forest monitoring; REDD+

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING;

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; FOREST COVER CHANGE; FOREST DEGRADATION; NATIONAL FORESTS; REDD; REDUCING EMISSIONS; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGES;

FORESTRY;

DATA SET; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE; VEGETATION COVER;

FORESTS; MONITORING;

PERU;

EID: 84923869965     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/2/021001     Document Type: Review

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