Impacts of human civilization on ecosystems threaten global biodiversity. In a changing
environment, traditional in situ approaches to biodiversity monitoring have made significant …

Compared with disturbance maps produced at annual or multi-year time steps, monthly
map** of forest harvesting can provide more temporal details needed for studying the …

Natural disturbances significantly influence forest ecosystem services and biodiversity.
Accurate delineation and early detection of areas affected by wind and insect outbreaks are …

The potential of X-band interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) heights (eg from the
TanDEM-X mission) for vegetation canopy height estimation has long been recognized …

The tropical rain forests of northwest South America fall within the Chocó-Darien Global
Ecoregion (CGE). The CGE is one of 25 global biodiversity hotspots prioritized for …

Natural and anthropogenic disturbances pose a significant threat to forest condition.
Continuous, reliable and accurate forest monitoring systems are needed to provide early …

The purpose of this study was to develop methods to localize forest windstorm damages,
assess their severity and estimate the total damaged area using space-borne SAR data. The …

The Badas peat swamp forest, Brunei Darussalam, Borneo, is a large Baram river peatland
formation facing pressures from natural and increasingly anthropogenic disturbances …

Abstract The Mediterranean Basin has experienced substantial land use changes as
traditional agriculture decreased and population migrated from rural to urban areas, which …

The availability of global digital elevation models (DEMs) from multiple time points allows
their combination for analysing vegetation changes. The combination of models (eg, SRTM …