Land degradation has become one of the biggest environmental challenges human society
is currently facing, which is why understanding the global pattern of this land crisis is …

The remote sensing science and application communities have developed increasingly
reliable, consistent, and robust approaches for capturing land dynamics to meet a range of …

The topics assessed in this chapter were last assessed by the IPCC in 2007, principally in
WGII AR4 Chapters 3 (Kundzewicz et al., 2007) and 4 (Fischlin et al., 2007), but also in WGII …

Satellite remote sensing is an important tool for monitoring the status of biodiversity and
associated environmental parameters, including certain elements of habitats. However …

Land use change in South America, mainly deforestation, is a large source of anthropogenic
CO 2 emissions. Identifying and addressing the causes or drivers of anthropogenic forest …

Remote sensing data play an important role in the monitoring of forest changes. Methods
are needed to provide objective estimates of forest loss to support monitoring efforts at …

We combined two existing datasets of vegetation aboveground biomass (AGB)(Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, 2011, 9899; …

The performance of Landsat time series (LTS) of eight vegetation indices (VIs) was
assessed for monitoring deforestation across the tropics. Three sites were selected based …

Monitoring of forest cover and forest functions provides information necessary to support
policies and decisions to conserve, protect and sustainably manage forests. Especially in …

Globally, countries report forest information to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
of the United Nations Global Forest Resources Assessments (FRA) at regular intervals …