How Can Remote Sensing Help Monitor Tropical Moist Forest Degradation?—A Systematic Review

Aboveground carbon emissions from gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon

(2020) Ovidiu Csillik et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Satellite‐based estimates reveal widespread forest degradation in the Amazon

(2020) Eric L. Bullock et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

(2020) Wannes Hubau et al.   NATURE

A view from above: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide a new tool for assessing liana infestation in tropical forest canopies

(2019) Catherine E. Waite et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Tree species classification in tropical forests using visible to shortwave infrared WorldView-3 images and texture analysis

(2019) Matheus Pinheiro Ferreira et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Quantifying Canopy Tree Loss and Gap Recovery in Tropical Forests under Low-Intensity Logging Using VHR Satellite Imagery and Airborne LiDAR

(2019) Ricardo Dalagnol et al.   Remote Sensing

Accurate Measurement of Tropical Forest Canopy Heights and Aboveground Carbon Using Structure From Motion

(2019) Tom Swinfield et al.   Remote Sensing

Comparing Sentinel-2 MSI and Landsat 8 OLI Imagery for Monitoring Selective Logging in the Brazilian Amazon

(2019) Thaís Almeida Lima et al.   Remote Sensing

Tree Species Classification in a Highly Diverse Subtropical Forest Integrating UAV-Based Photogrammetric Point Cloud and Hyperspectral Data

(2019) Camile Sothe et al.   Remote Sensing

AGB Estimation in a Tropical Mountain Forest (TMF) by Means of RGB and Multispectral Images Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

(2019) Víctor González-Jaramillo et al.   Remote Sensing

Classification of Tropical Forest Tree Species Using Meter-Scale Image Data

(2019) Matthew Cross et al.   Remote Sensing

Quantifying Leaf Phenology of Individual Trees and Species in a Tropical Forest Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Images

(2019) John Y. Park et al.   Remote Sensing

Estimation of secondary forest parameters by integrating image and point cloud-based metrics acquired from unmanned aerial vehicle

(2019) Ziqian Xu et al.   Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Reducing tropical deforestation

(2019) Frances Seymour et al.   SCIENCE

Monitoring tropical forest carbon stocks and emissions using Planet satellite data

(2019) Ovidiu Csillik et al.   Scientific Reports

Assessing the ecological vulnerability of forest landscape to agricultural frontier expansion in the Central Highlands of Vietnam

(2019) Clément Bourgoin et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Quantifying the contribution of spectral metrics derived from digital aerial photogrammetry to area-based models of forest inventory attributes

(2019) Piotr Tompalski et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Deforestation and vector-borne disease: Forest conversion favors important mosquito vectors of human pathogens

(2018) Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Landscape-scale lidar analysis of aboveground biomass distribution in secondary Brazilian Atlantic Forest

(2018) Justin M. Becknell et al.   BIOTROPICA

Quantifying long-term changes in carbon stocks and forest structure from Amazon forest degradation

(2018) Danielle I Rappaport et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Locating emergent trees in a tropical rainforest using data from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

(2018) Cici Alexander et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Global patterns of tropical forest fragmentation

(2018) Franziska Taubert et al.   NATURE

Combining UAV and Sentinel-2 auxiliary data for forest growing stock volume estimation through hierarchical model-based inference

(2018) Stefano Puliti et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Combating deforestation: From satellite to intervention

(2018) Matt Finer et al.   SCIENCE

Deforestation-Induced Fragmentation Increases Forest Fire Occurrence in Central Brazilian Amazonia

(2018) Celso Silva Junior et al.   Forests

The Potential of Multisource Remote Sensing for Mapping the Biomass of a Degraded Amazonian Forest

(2018) Clément Bourgoin et al.   Forests

Estimation and Extrapolation of Tree Parameters Using Spectral Correlation between UAV and Pléiades Data

(2018) et al.   Forests

Towards Operational Monitoring of Forest Canopy Disturbance in Evergreen Rain Forests: A Test Case in Continental Southeast Asia

(2018) Andreas Langner et al.   Remote Sensing

On the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Monitoring

(2018) Salvatore Manfreda et al.   Remote Sensing

Estimation à grande échelle de l'ouverture du couvert forestier en Afrique centrale à l'aide de données de télédétection

(2018) Lucas Bourbier et al.   BOIS ET FORETS DES TROPIQUES

What controls local-scale aboveground biomass variation in central Africa? Testing structural, composition and architectural attributes

(2018) Grace Jopaul Loubota Panzou et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Global land change from 1982 to 2016

(2018) Xiao-Peng Song et al.   NATURE

The tropical forest carbon cycle and climate change

(2018) Edward T. A. Mitchard   NATURE

Towards rapid assessments of tree species diversity and structure in fragmented tropical forests: A review of perspectives offered by remotely-sensed and field-based data

(2018) Elias Ganivet et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Successional stages and their evolution in tropical forests using multi-temporal photogrammetric surface models and superpixels

(2018) Adilson Berveglieri et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Individual tree crown delineation in a highly diverse tropical forest using very high resolution satellite images

(2018) Fabien Hubert Wagner et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Forest Degradation: When Is a Forest Degraded?

(2018) Angélica Vásquez-Grandón et al.   Forests

Retrieving Secondary Forest Aboveground Biomass from Polarimetric ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 Data in the Brazilian Amazon

(2018) Henrique Luis Godinho Cassol et al.   Remote Sensing

Tropical Deforestation and Recolonization by Exotic and Native Trees: Spatial Patterns of Tropical Forest Biomass, Functional Groups, and Species Counts and Links to Stand Age, Geoclimate, and Sustainability Goals

(2018) Eileen Helmer et al.   Remote Sensing

Congo Basin forest loss dominated by increasing smallholder clearing

(2018) Alexandra Tyukavina et al.   Science Advances

A machine learning approach to map tropical selective logging

(2018) M.G. Hethcoat et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Estimating selective logging impacts on aboveground biomass in tropical forests using digital aerial photography obtained before and after a logging event from an unmanned aerial vehicle

(2018) Tetsuji Ota et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Natural regeneration of trees in selectively logged forest in western Amazonia

(2017) Anelena Lima de Carvalho et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Spatial heterogeneity of biomass and forest structure of the Amazon rain forest: Linking remote sensing, forest modelling and field inventory

(2017) Edna Rödig et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Potential of TerraSAR-X and Sentinel 1 imagery to map deforested areas and derive degradation status in complex rain forests of Ecuador

(2017) M.J. Delgado-Aguilar et al.   INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY REVIEW

Assessing the status of forest regeneration using digital aerial photogrammetry and unmanned aerial systems

(2017) Tristan R.H Goodbody et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Assessing the impacts of canopy openness and flight parameters on detecting a sub-canopy tropical invasive plant using a small unmanned aerial system

(2017) Ryan L. Perroy et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines

(2017) Gerardo Ceballos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mapping major land cover types and retrieving the age of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon by combining single-date optical and radar remote sensing data

(2017) João M.B. Carreiras et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Tropical forests are a net carbon source based on aboveground measurements of gain and loss

(2017) A. Baccini et al.   SCIENCE

High resolution analysis of tropical forest fragmentation and its impact on the global carbon cycle

(2017) Katharina Brinck et al.   Nature Communications

Seeing trees from space: above-ground biomass estimates of intact and degraded montane rainforests from high-resolution optical imagery

(2017) MH Phua et al.   iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry

The last frontiers of wilderness: Tracking loss of intact forest landscapes from 2000 to 2013

(2017) Peter Potapov et al.   Science Advances

Environmental Issues in Central Africa

(2016) Katharine Abernethy et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Forest Degradation Associated with Logging Frontier Expansion in the Amazon: The BR-163 Region in Southwestern Pará, Brazil

(2016) T. F. Pinheiro et al.   Earth Interactions

Mapping tree species diversity of a tropical montane forest by unsupervised clustering of airborne imaging spectroscopy data

(2016) Elisa Schäfer et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Institutional effectiveness of REDD+ MRV: Countries progress in implementing technical guidelines and good governance requirements

(2016) R.M. Ochieng et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Degradation of Riparian Forest Affects Soil Properties and Ecosystem Services Provision in Eastern Amazon of Brazil

(2016) Danielle Celentano et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

(2016) Lourens Poorter et al.   NATURE

Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation

(2016) Jos Barlow et al.   NATURE

Mapping the structure of Borneo's tropical forests across a degradation gradient

(2016) M. Pfeifer et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Estimates of selective logging impacts in tropical forest canopy cover using RapidEye imagery and field data

(2016) ER Pinagé et al.   iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry

Deforestation Effects on Soil Erosion in the Lake Kivu Basin, D.R. Congo-Rwanda

(2016) Fidele Karamage et al.   Forests

Forest Disturbances and Regrowth Assessment Using ALOS PALSAR Data from 2007 to 2010 in Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao PDR

(2016) Stéphane Mermoz et al.   Remote Sensing

Quantifying post logging biomass loss using satellite images and ground measurements in Southeast Cameroon

(2016) Richard Sufo Kankeu et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH

Using lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor tropical forest recovery

(2015) Rakan A. Zahawi et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Aboveground carbon loss in natural and managed tropical forests from 2000 to 2012

(2015) A Tyukavina et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Mapping dynamics of deforestation and forest degradation in tropical forests using radar satellite data

(2015) Neha Joshi et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Status and trends in global primary forest, protected areas, and areas designated for conservation of biodiversity from the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015

(2015) David Morales-Hidalgo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Dynamics of global forest area: Results from the FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015

(2015) Rodney J. Keenan et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Pan-tropical hinterland forests: mapping minimally disturbed forests

(2015) A. Tyukavina et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Following a site-specific secondary succession in the Amazon using the Landsat CDR product and field inventory data

(2015) Lênio Soares Galvão et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Multi-temporal remote sensing data and spectral indices analysis for detection tropical rainforest degradation: case study in Kapuas Hulu and Sintang districts, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

(2015) Parwati Sofan et al.   NATURAL HAZARDS

Increasing human dominance of tropical forests

(2015) S. L. Lewis et al.   SCIENCE

Conceptualizing Forest Degradation

(2015) Jaboury Ghazoul et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Remote Sensing Based Spatial Statistics to Document Tropical Rainforest Transition Pathways

(2015) Abduwasit Ghulam et al.   Remote Sensing

Deforestation and Forest Fragmentation in South Ecuador since the 1970s – Losing a Hotspot of Biodiversity

(2015) María Fernanda Tapia-Armijos et al.   PLoS One

Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is?

(2014) Rachel J. Standish et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Mapping tropical forest canopy diversity using high-fidelity imaging spectroscopy

(2014) Jean-Baptiste Féret et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Assessing deforestation and fragmentation in a tropical moist forest over 68 years; the impact of roads and legal protection in the Cockpit Country, Jamaica

(2014) Minke E. Newman et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Spectral/textural attributes from ALI/EO-1 for mapping primary and secondary tropical forests and studying the relationships with biophysical parameters

(2014) Ricardo D. da Silva et al.   GIScience & Remote Sensing

Determination of tropical deforestation rates and related carbon losses from 1990 to 2010

(2014) Frédéric Achard et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

(2014) Jérôme Chave et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Unmanned aerial systems for photogrammetry and remote sensing: A review

(2014) I. Colomina et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

A 50-m Forest Cover Map in Southeast Asia from ALOS/PALSAR and Its Application on Forest Fragmentation Assessment

(2014) Jinwei Dong et al.   PLoS One

Land Use and Land Cover Change Dynamics across the Brazilian Amazon: Insights from Extensive Time-Series Analysis of Remote Sensing Data

(2014) João M. B. Carreiras et al.   PLoS One

Long-term carbon loss in fragmented Neotropical forests

(2014) Sandro Pütz et al.   Nature Communications

Assessment of forest degradation in Brazilian Amazon due to selective logging and fires using time series of fraction images derived from Landsat ETM+ images

(2014) Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro et al.   Remote Sensing Letters

Small Drones for Community-Based Forest Monitoring: An Assessment of Their Feasibility and Potential in Tropical Areas

(2014) Jaime Paneque-Gálvez et al.   Forests

Mapping Forest Degradation due to Selective Logging by Means of Time Series Analysis: Case Studies in Central Africa

(2014) Manuela Hirschmugl et al.   Remote Sensing

A review of the roles of forest canopy gaps

(2014) Adele Muscolo et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH

A global meta-analysis of the biodiversity and ecosystem service benefits of coffee and cacao agroforestry

(2013) Matthias De Beenhouwer et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Landscape-scale forest disturbance regimes in southern Peruvian Amazonia

(2013) Doreen S. Boyd et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

An Operational Framework for Defining and Monitoring Forest Degradation

(2013) Ian D. Thompson et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

African rainforests: past, present and future

(2013) Y. Malhi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tropical forest recovery from logging: a 24 year silvicultural experiment from Central Africa

(2013) S. Gourlet-Fleury et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Forest Canopy Gap Distributions in the Southern Peruvian Amazon

(2013) Gregory P. Asner et al.   PLoS One

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Mapping Tropical Rainforest Canopy Disturbances in 3D by COSMO-SkyMed Spotlight InSAR-Stereo Data to Detect Areas of Forest Degradation

(2013) Janik Deutscher et al.   Remote Sensing

Above ground biomass estimation across forest types at different degradation levels in Central Kalimantan using LiDAR data

(2012) Karin Kronseder et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

A statistical method for detecting logging-related canopy gaps using high-resolution optical remote sensing

(2012) Sophie Pithon et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Assessment of forest disturbances by selective logging and forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon using Landsat data

(2012) Eraldo A.T. Matricardi et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Predicting Tropical Dry Forest Successional Attributes from Space: Is the Key Hidden in Image Texture?

(2012) J. Alberto Gallardo-Cruz et al.   PLoS One

Prediction of understory vegetation cover with airborne lidar in an interior ponderosa pine forest

(2012) Brian M. Wing et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Estimating forest biomass and identifying low-intensity logging areas using airborne scanning lidar in Antimary State Forest, Acre State, Western Brazilian Amazon

(2012) Marcus V.N. d'Oliveira et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Community forest monitoring in REDD+: the ‘M’ in MRV?

(2011) Ben Palmer Fry   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

On the terminology of the spectral vegetation index (NIR − SWIR)/(NIR + SWIR)

(2011) Lei Ji et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

The progress on remote sensing technology in identifying tropical forest degradation: a synthesis of the present knowledge and future perspectives

(2010) Shijo Joseph et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Assessing the response of the MODIS vegetation indices to landscape disturbance in the forested areas of the legal Brazilian Amazon

(2010) N. C. Ferreira et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

High-resolution forest carbon stocks and emissions in the Amazon

(2010) G. P. Asner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Assessment of tropical forest degradation by selective logging and fire using Landsat imagery

(2010) Eraldo A.T. Matricardi et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Applicability of Green-Red Vegetation Index for Remote Sensing of Vegetation Phenology

(2010) Takeshi Motohka et al.   Remote Sensing

CO2 emissions from forest loss

(2009) G. R. van der Werf et al.   Nature Geoscience

Watershed services of tropical forests: from hydrology to economic valuation to integrated analysis

(2009) Sharachchandra Lele   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Critical need for new definitions of “forest” and “forest degradation” in global climate change agreements

(2009) Nophea Sasaki et al.   Conservation Letters

Forest fragmentation and edge effects from deforestation and selective logging in the Brazilian Amazon

(2008) Eben N. Broadbent et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION