Monitoring of the Ecuadorian mountain rainforest with remote sensing

Anna Goerner; Richard Gloaguen; Franz Makeschin

doi:10.1117/1.2784111

1 August 2007 Monitoring of the Ecuadorian mountain rainforest with remote sensing

Anna Goerner, Richard Gloaguen, Franz Makeschin

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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 013527 (August 2007). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2784111

Abstract

The Ecuadorian Andes feature a hotspot of biodiversity. At the same time Ecuador has the highest deforestation rate of South America. In order to develop sustainable counteractive measures, it is important to locate and quantify the ongoing changes on a regional scale. In this study we present a cost-effective remote sensing based change detection algorithm suitable for application in a tropical mountain rainforest landscape. We show that the deforestation in the study area is closely linked to the existence of roads but topography also influences the spatial distribution of land cover change.

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Anna Goerner, Richard Gloaguen, and Franz Makeschin "Monitoring of the Ecuadorian mountain rainforest with remote sensing," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 1(1), 013527 (1 August 2007). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2784111

Published: 1 August 2007

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