Alessandro Baccini

TL;DR: This product provides maps of global land cover at 1-km spatial resolution using several classification systems, principally that of the IGBP, and a supervised classification methodology is used that exploits a global database of training sites interpreted from high-resolution imagery in association with ancillary data.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided the most detailed estimate of the carbon density of vegetation and associated carbon dioxide emissions from deforestation for ecosystems across the tropics across the world, including tropical rainforests.

TL;DR: In this article, a wall-to-wall, global map of canopy height at 1-km spatial resolution, using 2005 data from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) aboard ICESat (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite).

TL;DR: 12 years of MODIS satellite data are used to quantify net annual changes in the aboveground carbon density of tropical woody live vegetation, providing direct, measurement-based evidence that the world’s tropical forests are a net carbon source.

TL;DR: There is a strong relationship between class accuracy, spatial agreement among the datasets, and the heterogeneity of landscapes and suggestions for future mapping projects include careful definition of mixed unit classes, and improvement in mapping heterogeneous landscapes.