After 40 years of government induced settlement of the Brazilian Amazon, the core of this region has experienced surprisingly little deforestation. The agriculture and ranching that cause deforestation depend upon reliable roads, which are concentrated along the eastern and southern flanks of Amazonia. This ‘passive protection’ of central Amazonia may soon be lost, however, unless the proposed paving of roads through the core of the region is reassessed.
New Eyes in The Sky: Cloud-Free Tropical Forest Monitoring for REDD With The Japanese Advanced Land Observation Satellite (ALOS)
New Eyes in The Sky: Cloud-Free Tropical Forest Monitoring for REDD With The Japanese Advanced Land Observation Satellite (ALOS)
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...