Towards an Operational Forest Monitoring System for Central Africa

Laporte, Nadine T.; Lin, Tiffany S.; Lemoigne, Jacqueline; Devers, Didier; Honzák, Miroslav

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-2562-4_6

Nadine T. Laporte¹²,
Tiffany S. Lin¹²,
Jacqueline Lemoigne¹³,
Didier Devers¹⁴ &
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Miroslav Honzák¹⁵

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Characterizing and mapping land cover and land use change in the rain forests of Central African is a complex process. This complexity is marked by the diversity of land use practices across six different countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Republic of Congo), the lack of full and continuous cloud-free coverage by any single optical remote sensing instrument, and the limited institutional capacity to implement mapping and monitoring activities.

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The Woods Hole Research Center, 296, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, USA
Nadine T. Laporte & Tiffany S. Lin
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Applied Information Sciences Branch, Code 935, Building 28, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA
Jacqueline Lemoigne
Department of Geography, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA
Didier Devers
Conservation International, 1919 M Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20036, USA
Miroslav Honzák

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Garik Gutman
Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment, The H. John Heinz III, Washington, DC, USA
Anthony C. Janetos
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Christopher O. Justice
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Laporte, N.T., Lin, T.S., Lemoigne, J., Devers, D., Honzák, M. (2012). Towards an Operational Forest Monitoring System for Central Africa. In: Gutman, G., et al. Land Change Science. Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2562-4_6

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