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Spotlight
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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 (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
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. ...
Sandra Coria
Sandra is from Mexico. ...

Recently Added Items
 Title   Date Added 
New web page: Lichens of Puerto Rico
Developed from a checklist compiled by IITF graduate student Joel Mercado, the page features photos and a list of 1,181 species of lichenized and lichenicolous fungi known to occur in Puerto Rico and related offshore islands.
01-27-2010
2008 Arctic patterned-ground ecosystems: a synthesis of field studies along a North American Arctic Transect.
01-15-2010
2002 Canadian Arctic vegetation mapping
01-15-2010





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