Forest Dynamics and Degradation Monitoring in the Brazilian Amazon
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 2600
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land use and land cover change; forest degradation; selective logging; time series analysis; sampling
Interests: land use and land cover change; climate sensitivity of tropical forests; tropical ecology; carbon cycling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Amazon is the largest and most biodiverse continuous rainforest on the planet and provides substantial ecosystem services to the entire world. Thus, Amazon deforestation is a major environmental matter. About two-thirds of the Amazon are in Brazil, where the majority of Amazon deforestation has been happening. Despite this, 80% of Brazil’s Amazon area remains forested, although the extent to which this remaining forest has been degraded remains an open question.
Thus, this Special Issue focuses on state-of-the-art remote sensing applied to Forest Dynamics and Degradation Monitoring in the Brazilian Amazon. Also, we are glad to receive works in Cerrado or Atlantic Forest in this subject. Therefore, papers covering the following topics are welcome:
- Near real-time forest monitoring;
- Biodiversity loss;
- Selective logging;
- REDD+ and other forest protection mechanisms;
- Fire;
- Forest regrowth;
- Forest climate sensitivity.
Other papers of relevance to understanding the dynamics and degradation status of Brazilian Amazon forests but which do not directly fit into the above categories are also welcome.
Dr. Marcos AdamiDr. David Galbraith
Dr. Edward Mitchard
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Land use and land cover change
- REDD+
- Fire
- Selective logging
- Forest monitoring
- Forest regrowth
