Detecting and Quantifying Forest Change: The Potential of Existing C- and X-Band Radar Datasets.

ABSTRACT: This paper evaluates the opportunity provided by global interferometric radar datasets for monitoring deforestation, degradation and forest regrowth in tropical and semi-arid environments. The paper describes an easy to implement method for detecting forest spatial changes and estimating their magnitude. The datasets were acquired within space-borne high spatial resolutions radar missions at near-global scales thus being significant for monitoring systems developed under the United Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The approach presented in this paper was tested in two areas located in Indonesia and Australia. Forest change estimation was based on differences between a reference dataset acquired in February 2000 by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and TanDEM-X mis

SUBMITTER: Tanase MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4482516 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature