Global forest monitoring from earth observation / 
edited by Frederic Achard, Matthew C. Hansen. 
 - 1 online resource (xiv, 330 pages) 
 - Earth observation of global changes .
<br/><br/>1. Why forest monitoring matters for people and the planet / Ruth DeFries 2. Role of forests and impact of deforestation in the global carbon cycle / Richard A. Houghton 3. Use of earth observation technology to monitor forests across the globe / Frederic Achard and Matthew C. Hansen 4. Global data availability from U.S. satellites : Landsat and MODIS / Thomas R. Loveland and Matthew C. Hansen 5. Sampling strategies for forest monitoring from global to national levels / Stephen V. Stehman 6. Use of coarse-resolution imagery to identify hot spots of forest loss at the global scale / Matthew C. Hansen, Peter Potapov, and Svetlana Turubanova 7. Use of a systematic statistical sample with moderate-resolution imagery to assess forest cover changes at tropical to global scale / Frederic Achard. [et al.] 8. Monitoring forest loss and degradation at national to global scales using Landsat data / Peter Potapov. [et al.] 9. The Brazilian Amazon monitoring program : PRODES and DETER projects / Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro. [et al.] 10. Monitoring of forest degradation : a review of methods in the Amazon Basin / Carlos Souza, Jr. 11. Use of wall-to-wall moderate- and high-resolution satellite imagery to monitor forest cover across Europe / Jesus San-Miguel-Ayanz. [et al.] 12. Monitoring U.S. forest dynamics with Landsat / Jeffrey G. Masek and Sean P. Healey 13. Long-term monitoring of Australian land cover change using Landsat data : development, implementation, and operation / Peter Caccetta. [et al.] 14. Assessment of burned forest areas over the Russian Federation from MODIS and Landsat-TM/ETM+ imagery / Sergey Bartalev. [et al.] 15. Global forest monitoring with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data / Richard Lucas. [et al.] 16. Future perspectives (way forward) / Alan Belward. [et al.]. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780429086465 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1201/b13040   doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Forests and forestry--Remote sensing.<br/>Forest monitoring.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>SD387.R4  / G56 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>333.75  / G562