Mapping the World's Intact Forest Landscapes by Remote Sensing

Mapping the World's Intact Forest Landscapes by Remote Sensing

Protection of large natural forest landscapes is a highly important task to help fulfill different international strategic initiatives to protect forest biodiversity, to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and to stimulate sustainable forest management practices. This...

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Main Authors: Peter Potapov, Aleksey Yaroshenko, Svetlana Turubanova, Maxim Dubinin, Lars Laestadius, Christoph Thies, Dmitry Aksenov, Aleksey Egorov, Yelena Yesipova, Igor Glushkov, Mikhail Karpachevskiy, Anna Kostikova, Alexander Manisha, Ekaterina Tsybikova, Ilona Zhuravleva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2008-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
Subjects:
Forest degradation
Global forest assessment
Intactness
Landsat
Remote sensing
Wilderness
Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art51/

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http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art51/

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