Remote sensing has developed into an omnipresent technology in the scientific field of
forestry and is also increasingly used in an operational fashion. However, the pace and level …

Forest degradation affects forest structure, composition and diversity, carbon stocks,
functionality and ecosystem processes. It is known to contribute significantly to global carbon …

The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector encompasses managed
ecosystems and offers significant mitigation opportunities while delivering food, wood and …

Brazil has a monitoring system to track annual forest conversion in the Amazon and most
recently to monitor the Cerrado biome. However, there is still a gap of annual land use and …

Although deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon are well known, the extent of the area
affected by forest degradation is a notable data gap, with implications for conservation …

Bare soil is a critical element in the urban landscape and plays an essential role in urban
environments. Yet, the separation of bare soil and other land cover types using remote …

Current estimates of forest degradation are associated with large uncertainties. However,
recent advancements in the availability of remote sensing data (eg, the free data policies of …

Concerted political attention has focused on reducing deforestation,,, and this remains the
cornerstone of most biodiversity conservation strategies,,. However, maintaining forest cover …

In this paper, we implement and analyse an Attention U-Net deep network for semantic
segmentation using Sentinel-2 satellite sensor imagery, for the purpose of detecting …

Tropical forest loss currently contributes 5 to 15% of anthropogenic carbon emissions to the
atmosphere. The large uncertainty in emissions estimates is a consequence of many factors …