Current remote sensing approaches to monitoring forest degradation in support of countries measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) systems for REDD+

Carbon Balance and Management

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Mitchell, Anthea L ^a   Rosenqvist, Ake ^b   Mora, Brice ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b TTT Mid Tower 1708   (Japan)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Above ground biomass; Carbon emissions; Degradation; Disturbance; Forests; Measurement reporting and verification; Monitoring; REDD+; Time series

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; CARBON EMISSION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA INTERPRETATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST CANOPY; LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; REGROWTH; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 85017442793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17500680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13021-017-0078-9     Document Type: Review

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