Ghost roads and the destruction of Asia-Pacific tropical forests

JE Engert, MJ Campbell, JE Cinner, Y Ishida, S Sloan… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Roads are expanding at the fastest pace in human history. This is the case especially in
biodiversity-rich tropical nations, where roads can result in forest loss and fragmentation …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring road development in Congo Basin forests with multi-sensor satellite imagery and deep learning

B Slagter, K Fesenmyer, M Hethcoat, E Belair… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Road development has affected many remote tropical forests around the world and has
accelerated human-induced deforestation, forest degradation and biodiversity loss. The …

Beyond the Hype: Navigating the Conservation Implications of Artificial Intelligence

C Sandbrook - Conservation Letters, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation AI—the deliberate application of artificial intelligence technology to achieve
conservation goals—has great potential to boost productivity, make existing conservation …

Feasibility and effectiveness of global intact forest landscape protection through forest certification: the conservation burden of intact forest landscapes

JA Zwerts, CM van der Linde, GJ Praamstra… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Intact Forest Landscapes (IFLs) are defined as forested areas of at least 500 km2 that show
no signs of remotely sensed human activity. They are considered to be of high conservation …

An Enhanced Loss Function for Semantic Road Segmentation in Remote Sensing Images

L Nanni, S Brahnam, A Loreggia - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The analysis of road continuity in satellite images is a complex challenge. This is due to the
difficulty in identifying the directional vector of road sections, especially when the satellite …

Assessing the Impacts of Selective Logging on the Forest Understory in the Amazon Using Airborne LiDAR.

L Ferreira, ES Bias, QS Barros, L Pádua… - Forests …, 2025 - search.ebscohost.com
Reduced-impact logging (RIL) has been recognized as a promising strategy for biodiversity
conservation and carbon sequestration within sustainable forest management (SFM) areas …

Biodiversity futures: digital approaches to knowledge and conservation of biological diversity

H Freitas, AC Gouveia - Web Ecology, 2025 - we.copernicus.org
Biodiversity, encompassing species diversity, genetic resources, and ecosystems, is
essential for human well-being and quality of life. However, the scale of human activities has …

ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ ШТУЧНОГО ІНТЕЛЕКТУ (GEOAI) ДЛЯ ЗАВДАНЬ ТОПОГРАФІЧНОГО КАРТОГРАФУВАННЯ

Н Лазоренко - Просторовий розвиток, 2024 - spd.knuba.edu.ua
Анотація Проаналізовано основні напрями застосування штучного інтелекту (Artificial
intelligence–AI) для завдань топографічного картографування на прикладі шістьох …