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Spotlight
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2010 Tropical dry forest height and foliage height profiles mapped with Landsat and ALI image time series
Forest age, vertical structure, disturbance history, and species composition are related forest attributes that affect avian habitat. ...
2009 Regional forest growth rates, as biomass accumulation rates, measured with ICESat GLAS and Landsat data
For the first time, scientists have been able to measure entirely from space the rates of carbon accumulation (sequestration) in the biomass of tropical forests that regrow where agriculture has been abandoned, and toautomatically monitor tropical forest regrowth. ...
2008 Tropical forest type and structure from and coarse resolution lidar and Landsat for the Virgin Islands
Scientists from IITF and Colorado State University (http://welcome. ...
2008 Diversity and biomass of tropical forests cleared for land development: landscape and local controls on tropical forest recovery
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 SRTM-DEM derived variables with decision trees for forest type classification in complex tropical landscapes
New satellite-image based maps of complex Caribbean islands (Puerto Rico, Vieques, Culebra, St. ...

Recently Added Items
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2010 Kirtland’s Warblers in anthropogenically disturbed early successional habitats on Eleuthera, The Bahamas
To characterize the nonbreeding habitat of Kirtlands Warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii) on Eleuthera, The Bahamas, we quantified the habitat at sites where we captured the warblers and compared these traits with those of random sites and sites of tall coppice. ...
07-13-2010
2008 Free Access to Landsat Imagery
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07-13-2010
2009 Novel plant communities after large-scale deforestation.
Environmental and past land use controls on tree species assemblages on the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U.S. ...
07-13-2010





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