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2009 Mapping Amazonian forest type, age, and secondary forest biomass accumlation rates from Landsat time series and GLAS
For the first time, scientists have been able to measure entirely from space the rates of carbon accumulation in the biomass of tropical forests that regrow where agriculture has been abandoned, and toautomatically monitor tropical forest regrowth. ...
2008 Tropical forest type from Landsat, and structure from and coarse resolution lidar, for the Virgin Islands
Scientists from IITF and Colorado State University (http://welcome. ...
2008 Diversity and biomass of tropical forests cleared for land development
To learn more about the tropical forests that are cleared when urban and residential development spreads, scientists assembled the most comprehensive time series of land cover maps to date for the island of Puerto Rico. ...
2008 Integrating Landsat TM and DEM derived variables with decision trees for forest type classification in complex neotropical landscapes
New satellite-image based maps of complex Caribbean islands (Puerto Rico, Vieques, Culebra, St. ...
Sandra Coria
Sandra is from Mexico. ...






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