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Compton J. Tucker
Researcher at Goddard Space Flight Center
Publications - 14
Citations - 2916
Compton J. Tucker is an academic researcher from Goddard Space Flight Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Deforestation & Protected area. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 14 publications receiving 2750 citations. Previous affiliations of Compton J. Tucker include University of Maryland, College Park.
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Fifty years of deforestation and forest fragmentation in Madagascar
TL;DR: The extent of tropical forests and their rate of destruction and degradation through fragmentation remain poorly known as discussed by the authors, and past estimates of forest cover and deforestation have varied widely, and there is no consensus on the current state of the forest cover.
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NASA’s Global Orthorectified Landsat Data Set
TL;DR: The first geodetically accurate global compendium of orthorectified multi-epoch digital satellite data at the 30- to 80-m spatial scale spanning 30 years has been produced for use by the international scientific and educational communities as mentioned in this paper.
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Remote Sensing of Biomass Burning in the Tropics
TL;DR: Houghton et al. as mentioned in this paper showed that biomass burning in the tropics, a large source of trace gases, has expanded drastically in the last decade due to increase in the controlled and uncontrolled deforestation in South America.
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Strategies for monitoring tropical deforestation using satellite data.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present evidence to show that an accurate determination of tropical deforestation is very difficult to achieve by a random sampling analysis of Landsat or similar high spatial resolution data unless a very high percentage of the area to be studied is sampled.
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Tropical deforestation in the Bolivian Amazon
Marc K. Steininger,Compton J. Tucker,John R. Townshend,Timothy J. Killeen,Arthur Desch,Vivre Bell,Peter Ersts +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Landsat satellite images from the mid-1980s and early 1990s to map closed-canopy tropical forest extent and anthropogenic deforestation in an approximately 700 000 km 2 area of Amazonian Bolivia with precipitation > 1000 mm yr -1.