Biodiversity and habitat face increasing pressures due to human and natural influences that
alter vegetation structure. Because of the inherent difficulty of measuring forested vegetation …

Climate change, manifest via rising temperatures, extreme drought, and associated
anthropogenic activities, has a negative impact on the health and development of tropical …

This paper shows the results of an assessment on the current extent of Neotropical dry
forests based on a supervised classification of MODIS surface reflectance imagery at 500-m …

The full realization of the potential of remote sensing as a source of environmental
information requires an ability to generalize in space and time. Here, the ability to generalize …

Our understanding of the human and biophysical dimensions of tropical dry forest change
and its cumulative effects is still in the early stages of academic discovery. The papers in this …

In the context of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) and
the international effort to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, a reliable …

Quantifying the above ground biomass of tropical forests is critical for understanding the
dynamics of carbon fluxes between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere, as well as …

Aboveground dry biomass was estimated for the 1.3 M km2 forested area south of the
treeline in the eastern Canadian province of Québec by combining data from an airborne …

The potential to derive indicators of sustainable resource use from satellite remote sensing
is discussed. Particular attention focuses on indicators related to land cover condition and …

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provides a framework for countries to
determine how best to improve the lives of their people now, while ensuring that these …