Improving Forest Baseline Maps in Tropical Wetlands Using GEDI-Based Forest Height Information and Sentinel-1

Improving Forest Baseline Maps in Tropical Wetlands Using GEDI-Based Forest Height Information and Sentinel-1

Remote Sensing-based global Forest/Non-Forest (FNF) masks have shown large inaccuracies in tropical wetland areas. This limits their applications for deforestation monitoring and alerting in which they are used as a baseline for mapping new deforestation. In radar-based deforestation monitoring, for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kamiel Verhelst, Yaqing Gou, Martin Herold, Johannes Reiche
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-10-01
Series:Forests
Subjects:
FNF masks
wetlands
GEDI forest height
Sentinel-1
random forests
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/10/1374

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