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Fundamentals and Applications of Remote Sensing in Tropical Forestry

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Tropical Forestry Handbook

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To comply with the enormous increase in information needs in forestry, the present generation of foresters is confronted with the ubiquitous occurrence of a multitude of highly technical equipment to be used. Especially in the vast forest areas that can be found in the tropics, forest management has to intensively make use of observations and measurements of remote objects. The basics of the utilization of remote sensing techniques and earth observation data is in the focus of this chapter.

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  1. European and International Forest Policy, Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Bonn, Germany

    Thomas Baldauf

  2. Formerly Institute for World Forestry, Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute, Leuschnerstrasse 91, 21031, Hamburg, Germany

    Thomas Baldauf

  3. Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing (GIS/RS), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, CA, La Libertad, El salvador

    Abner Josue Jimenez Galo

  4. University of Alcalá (UAH), Madrid, Spain

    Abner Josue Jimenez Galo

  5. Faculty of Spatial Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH), Tegucigalpa, Honduras

    Abner Josue Jimenez Galo

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  1. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, La Libertad, El Salvador

    Laslo Pancel

  2. Center for Wood Science, Institute of World Forestry, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Michael Köhl

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Baldauf, T., Galo, A.J.J. (2016). Fundamentals and Applications of Remote Sensing in Tropical Forestry. In: Pancel, L., Köhl, M. (eds) Tropical Forestry Handbook. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54601-3_66

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