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Remote Sensing

Radar Images to Study Rainforest

Dense rainforest, a twin-engine turbo-prop aircraft and advanced radar technology – researchers from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) are performing numerous measurement flights from

Research Papers

Modeling Aboveground Biomass in Dense Tropical Submontane Rainforest Using Airborne Laser Scanner Data

Modeling Aboveground Biomass in Dense Tropical Submontane Rainforest Using Airborne Laser Scanner Data – Endre Hofstad Hansen, Terje Gobakken, Ole Martin Bollandsås, Eliakimu Zahabu and Erik Næsset  Abstract:  Successful implementation of projects

Global Positioning System

Activists Use GPS Systems to Track Illegal Logging Operations in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest on earth. It covers 5% of the world’s surface area and reaches into nine South American countries. Deforestation normally starts with logging. Loggers