FORESEEN : a forest and remote sensing exchanges network

The Guiana Shield in South America is one of the largest wild areas in the world. However, this area is currently facing unsustainable logging, poor and often illegal mining practices and agricultural activities. This paper presents a project aiming at: promoting capacity building and training of people from this area in remote sensing; preparing a vegetation map using low resolution data; and develop tools to estimate the impact of human activities on the forest using high resolution satellite imagery. The building of a network of trained experts in remote sensing is devoted to complete these objectives.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Gond, Valéry, Wiles, Janice, Souza, Carlos, et al.
Format:	conference_item biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	s.n.
Subjects:	U30 - Méthodes de recherche, K01 - Foresterie - Considérations générales, P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières, télédétection, forêt, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6498, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3062, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7253,
Online Access:	http://agritrop.cirad.fr/551716/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/551716/1/document_551716.pdf
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