Protected areas reduce deforestation and degradation and enhance woody growth across African woodlands

IM McNicol, A Keane, ND Burgess, SJ Bowers… - … Earth & Environment, 2023‏ - nature.com
Protected areas are increasingly promoted for their capacity to sequester carbon, alongside
biodiversity benefits. However, we have limited understanding of whether they are effective …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring road development in Congo Basin forests with multi-sensor satellite imagery and deep learning

B Slagter, K Fesenmyer, M Hethcoat, E Belair… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Road development has affected many remote tropical forests around the world and has
accelerated human-induced deforestation, forest degradation and biodiversity loss. The …

Towards the use of satellite-based tropical forest disturbance alerts to assess selective logging intensities

AJ Welsink, J Reiche, V De Sy, S Carter… - Environmental …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Illegal logging is an important driver of tropical forest loss. A wide range of organizations and
interested parties wish to track selective logging activities and verify logging intensities as …

Sub-Monthly Assessment of Temperate Forest Clear-Cuts in Mainland France

S Mermoz, JD Prieto, M Planells… - IEEE Journal of …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Remote sensing satellites allow large-scale and fast detections of forest loss. Operational
forest loss detection systems have been mainly developed over tropical forests; however, it …

[HTML][HTML] Repeat GEDI footprints measure the effects of tropical forest disturbances

A Holcomb, P Burns, S Keshav, DA Coomes - Remote Sensing of …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
More of the Amazon rainforest is disturbed each year than completely deforested, but the
impact of these disturbances on the carbon cycle remains poorly understood. Recent …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring selective logging intensities in central Africa with sentinel-1: A canopy disturbance experiment

C Dupuis, A Fayolle, JF Bastin, N Latte… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Forest degradation is a major threat to tropical forests, and effective monitoring using
remotely sensed data is subject to significant challenges. In particular, consistent methods …

Sensitivity of Sentinel-1 Backscatter to Management-Related Disturbances in Temperate Forests

S van der Woude, J Reiche, F Sterck, GJ Nabuurs… - Remote Sensing, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
The rapid and accurate detection of forest disturbances in temperate forests has become
increasingly crucial as policy demands and climate pressure on these forests rise. The cloud …

Advanced Bayesian Method for Timely Small-Scale Forest Loss Detection in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado with Sentinel-1 Time-Series

M Bottani, L Ferro-Famil, J Doblas… - … Archives of the …, 2024‏ - isprs-archives.copernicus.org
The world's forests are undergoing significant changes due to loss and degradation,
emphasizing the need for Near Real-Time (NRT) monitoring to prevent further damage …