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Towards an Operational Forest Monitoring System for Central Africa

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Part of the book series: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing ((RDIP,volume 6))

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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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  1. The Woods Hole Research Center, 296, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, USA

    Nadine T. Laporte & Tiffany S. Lin

  2. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Applied Information Sciences Branch, Code 935, Building 28, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA

    Jacqueline Lemoigne

  3. Department of Geography, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Didier Devers

  4. Conservation International, 1919 M Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20036, USA

    Miroslav Honzák

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  1. NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA

    Garik Gutman

  2. Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment, The H. John Heinz III, Washington, DC, USA

    Anthony C. Janetos

  3. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    Christopher O. Justice

  4. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Emilio F. Moran

  5. Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    John F. Mustard

  6. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Ronald R. Rindfuss

  7. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MA, USA

    David Skole

  8. Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA

    Billy Lee Turner II

  9. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Mark A. Cochrane

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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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