Abstract
Project ReCover, funded by the 7th Framework Program of
the European Union, developed beyond state-of-theart
service capabilities to support fighting deforestation
and forest degradation in the tropical region in the
context of the REDD process (Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and forest Degradation). A monitoring
system for forest cover mapping by combining wall-to-wall
mapping and a sample of VHR imagery was introduced. Also
biomass and changes of forest cover changes were
estimated. ReCover provided close to one hundred products
for the study sites in Mexico, Guyana, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Colombia and Fiji using optical and
SAR data and their combinations. The accuracy in forest
and nonforest classification varied from 85 % to 97 %
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2013 |
| Editors | Leny Ouwehand |
| Place of Publication | Noordwijk |
| Publisher | European Space Agency (ESA) |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-92-9221-286-5 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| MoE publication type | B3 Non-refereed article in conference proceedings |
| Event | ESA Living Planet Symposium 2013 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 9 Sept 2013 → 13 Sept 2013 Conference number: ESA SP-722 |
Conference
| Conference | ESA Living Planet Symposium 2013 |
|---|---|
| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | Edinburgh |
| Period | 9/09/13 → 13/09/13 |
Keywords
- Tropical forest
- REDD
- carbon
- sampling
- deforestation
- satellite