Humid tropical forest disturbance alerts using Landsat data

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Hansen, Matthew C ^a   Krylov, Alexander ^a   Tyukavina, Alexandra ^a   Potapov, Peter V ^a   Turubanova, Svetlana ^a   Zutta, Bryan ^b   Ifo, Suspense ^c   Margono, Belinda ^d   Stolle, Fred ^e   Moore, Rebecca ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Ministerio del Ambiente   (Peru)

^c Universite Marien Nguabi   (Congo)

^d Ecosystem and Nature Resource Conservation   (Indonesia)

^e WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; TROPICS; WATCHES;

ANNUAL UPDATES; DIFFERENT STAGES; FOREST DISTURBANCES; FOREST LAND; FOREST LOSS; HIGH PRODUCERS; HUMID TROPICAL FOREST; LAND MANAGEMENTS;

FORESTRY;

DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; TROPICAL FOREST;

BORNEO; CONGO; INDONESIA; KALIMANTAN; PERU;

EID: 84962289827     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/034008     Document Type: Article

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