Several environmental organizations released a joint technical note about the impacts of the new proposal that aims to reduce protection of the Jamanxim National Forest. The measure will benefit land grabbers and may double deforestation in the region.
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...