This chapter presents an overview of the existing forest area changes monitoring systems at the national scale in tropical countries using remote sensing imagery.
Section 3.2.2 describes national case studies: the Brazilian system which produces annual estimates of deforestation in the legal Amazon, the Indian National biannual forest cover assessment, an example of a sampling approach in the Congo basin and an example of wall-to-wall approach in Cameroon.
ACHARD Frederic;
DEFRIES Ruth;
PANDEY Devendra;
SOUZA Carlos;
2009-09-10
GOFC-GOLD Project Office, Natural Resources Canada
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