We report that pan-tropical monitoring of forests hidden by clouds will now be easier, thus strenthening existing global monitoring efforts. We present in this report two successful efforts to create large-scale, cloud-free mosaics of forests for two large tropical forest regions: the island of Bali (7,500 km2) and the Xingu River headwaters in southeastern Amazonia (400,000 km2).
JAXA; WHRC. New Eyes in The Sky: Cloud-Free Tropical Forest Monitoring for REDD With The Japanese Advanced Land Observation Satellite (ALOS). Bali/Indonesia. 3 de Dezembro, 2007.