While using large swaths of coarse satellite data can be an effective tool for evaluating forests on a national scale, the resolution of that data is not always well suited to indicate whether or not ...

Areas deforested in Brazil increased from 152 000 km_ in 1976 to 517 000 km_ in 1996. That figure is the equivalent of the surface area of France (1). Deforestation is a complex process and involves a ...

Deforestation and forest degradation are both significant conservation issues. But charities around the world are starting to use advanced technologies, such as AI and remote sensing, to get on top of ...

The Remote Sensing for Natural Resources certificate focuses on using satellite and aerial imagery to monitor, measure, and model natural systems. Learn how to interpret remote sensing data to support ...

Tropical forests are vast and scientifically underexplored places. Biotic losses, gains, and reorganization within these systems go undetected due to a lack of access to technologies needed to monitor ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...

If a tree falls in the forest, will another replace it? Of the roughly 3 million square kilometers of forest lost worldwide from 2001 to 2015, a new analysis suggests that 27 percent of that loss was ...