Information and communications technologies for sustainable development goals: state-of-the-art, needs and perspectives

J Wu, S Guo, H Huang, W Liu… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly accepted the 2030 Development
Agenda, which has included 92 paragraphs, and the Paragraph 91 defined 17 sustainable …

National level forest monitoring and modeling in Canada

MA Wulder, WA Kurz, M Gillis - Progress in Planning, 2004 - Elsevier
Canada's forests cover 417.6 million hectares. They occupy nearly 50% of the total
landmass of the country (NRCan 2001) and contain< 10%(Table 1) of the global forest cover …

Modeling forest stand structure attributes using Landsat ETM+ data: Application to map** of aboveground biomass and stand volume

RJ Hall, RS Skakun, EJ Arsenault, BS Case - Forest ecology and …, 2006 - Elsevier
Maps of aboveground biomass (AGB) and stand volume are of interest to determine their
magnitude and spatial distribution over forested areas, and required for input to forecasting …

Monitoring Canada's forests. Part 1: Completion of the EOSD land cover project

MA Wulder, JC White, M Cranny, RJ Hall… - Canadian Journal of …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Capture of land cover information is a key requirement for supporting forest monitoring and
management. In Canada, provincial and territorial forest stewards use land cover …

A comparison of four methods to map biomass from Landsat-TM and inventory data in western Newfoundland

S Labrecque, RA Fournier, JE Luther… - Forest ecology and …, 2006 - Elsevier
Spatial measures of forest biomass are important to implement sustainable forest
management, monitor global change, and model forest productivity. Several methods for …

Develo** Canada's national forest carbon monitoring, accounting and reporting system to meet the reporting requirements of the Kyoto Protocol

WA Kurz, MJ Apps - Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global …, 2006 - Springer
The rate of carbon accumulation in the atmosphere can be reduced by decreasing
emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and by increasing the net uptake (or reducing the …

An object-based method to map wetland using RADARSAT-1 and Landsat ETM images: Test case on two sites in Quebec, Canada

M Grenier, AM Demers, S Labrecque… - Canadian Journal of …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
The Canadian Wildlife Service, Quebec region, of Environment Canada tested a multiscale
object-based classification method on two test sites using satellite images to map wetlands …

[PDF][PDF] Cyclone Sidr impacts on the Sundarbans floristic diversity

AK Bhowmik, P Cabral - Earth Science Research, 2013 - bip.org.bd
The Sundarbans-the world's largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest situated
at the southwest of Bangladesh, plays a vital role in maintaining environmental sustainability …

Towards a strategy to implement the Canadian Wetland Inventory using satellite remote sensing

RA Fournier, M Grenier, A Lavoie… - Canadian Journal of …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
This review describes the context of the Canadian Wetland Inventory (CWI) and then defines
the specifications, establishes the most appropriate dataset, and explores the options for its …

Indirect Measurement of Forest Canopy Structure from In Situ Optical Sensors

RA Fournier, D Mailly, JMN Walter… - Remote sensing of forest …, 2003 - Springer
This Chapter covers the major requirements for the estimation of forest canopy structure from
in situ remote sensing. In situ measurements of forest canopy structure provide the basis for …