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Jim Lynch
Jim
Lynch
Mark Maslin
Mark
Maslin
Heiko Balzter
Heiko
Balzter
Martin Sweeting
Martin
Sweeting
Sustainability : Choose satellites to monitor deforestation
University of Leicester
2014
IR content
2014-06-04 14:20:50
Journal contribution
https://figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Sustainability_Choose_satellites_to_monitor_deforestation/10160660
Tropical deforestation contributes
12% of total anthropogenic carbon
dioxide emissions globally. Illegal
logging is costing nations tens of billions of
dollars each year. Although governments are
making headway on agreements to stop this
destruction, so far there is no coherent plan
to monitor tropical forests on the scale or
timescales necessary to do so.