Overview of the Existing Forest Area Changes Monitoring Systems
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
JRC53353
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC53353,
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