Image classification is a complex process that may be affected by many factors. This paper
examines current practices, problems, and prospects of image classification. The emphasis …

Abrupt forest disturbances generating gaps> 0.001 km2 impact roughly 0.4–0.7 million km2
a− 1. Fire, windstorms, logging, and shifting cultivation are dominant disturbances; minor …

The Earth is undergoing an accelerated rate of native ecosystem conversion and
degradation and there is increased interest in measuring and modelling biodiversity from …

Imagery from medium resolution satellites, such as Landsat, have long been used to map
forest disturbances in the tropics. However, the Landsat spatial resolution (30 m) has often …

Ecological studies in tropical forests have long been plagued by difficulties associated with
sampling the crowns of large canopy trees and large inaccessible regions, such as the …

This article provides an overview of some of the recent research in ecological informatics
involving remote sensing and GIS. Attention focuses on a selected range of issues including …

Summary 1 Vegetation cover regularly punctuated by spots of bare soil is a frequent feature
of certain semi‐arid African landscapes, which are also characterized by banded vegetation …

There appears to be no single axis of causality between life and its landscape, but rather,
each exerts a simultaneous influence on the other over a wide range of temporal and spatial …

Technological advances and increasing availability of high-resolution satellite imagery offer
the potential for more accurate land cover classifications and pattern analyses, which could …

Summary 1 Predicting stand structure parameters for tropical forests from remotely sensed
data has numerous important applications, such as estimating above‐ground biomass and …