Global Forest Monitoring from Earth Observation

 Content: Why Forest Monitoring Matters for People and the Planet, Ruth DeFries Role of Forests and Impact of Deforestation in the Global Carbon Cycle, Richard A. Houghton Use of Earth Observation Technology to Monitor Forests over the Globe, Frederic Achard and Matthew C. Hansen Global Data Availability from US Satellites: Landsat and MODIS, Thomas R. Loveland and Matthew C. Hansen Sampling Strategies for Forest Monitoring from Global to National Levels, Stephen V. Stehman Use of Coarse Resolution Imagery to Identify Hot Spots of Forest Loss at the Global Scale, Matthew C. Hansen, Peter Potapov, and Svetlana Turubanova Use of a Systematic Statistical Sample with Moderate Resolution Imagery to Assess Forest Cover Changes at Tropical to Global Scale, Frederic Achard, Hans-Jurgen Stibig, Rene Beuchle, Erik Lindquist, and Remi D\'Annunzio Monitoring Forest Loss and Degradation at National to Global Scales Using Landsat Data, Peter Potapov, Svetlana Turubanova, Matthew C. Hansen, Ilona Zhuravleva, Alexey Yaroshenko, and Lars Laestadius The Brazilian Amazon Monitoring Program: PRODES and DETER Projects, Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro, Joao Roberto dos Santos, Antonio Roberto Formaggio, Valdete Duarte, and Bernardo Friedrich Theodor Rudorff Monitoring of Forest Degradation: A Review of Methods in the Amazon Basin, Carlos Souza Jr. Use of Wall-to-Wall Moderate and High-Resolution Satellite Imagery to Monitor Forest Cover Across Europe, Jesus San-Miguel-Ayanz, Daniel McInerney, Fernando Sedano, Peter Strobl, Pieter Kempeneers, Anssi Pekkarinen, and Lucia Seebach Monitoring US Forest Dynamics with Landsat, Jeffrey G. Masek and Sean P. Healey Long-Term Monitoring of Australian Land Cover Change Using Landsat Data: Development, Implementation, and Operation, Peter Caccetta, Suzanne Furby, Jeremy Wallace, Xiaoliang Wu, Gary Richards, and Robert Waterworth Assessment of Burned Forest Areas over the Russian Federation from MODIS and Landsat-TM/ETM+ Imagery, Sergey Bartalev, Vyacheslav Egorov, Victor Efremov, Evgeny Flitman, Evgeny Loupian, and Fedor Stytsenko Global Forest Monitoring with Radar (SAR) Data, Richard Lucas, Ake Rosenqvist, Josef Kellndorfer, Dirk Hoekman, Masanobu Shimada, Daniel Clewley, Wayne Walker, and Humberto Navarro de Mesquita Jr. Future Perspectives (Way Forward), Alan Belward, Frederic Achard, Matthew C. Hansen, and Olivier Arino Index