Erik Lindquist

TL;DR: The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 (FRA 2015) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FRA 2015 was based on responses to surveys by individual countries using a common reporting framework, agreed definitions and reporting standards as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: A global analysis of forest area affected by fire, significant insect pest outbreaks, diseases and severe weather reported by countries as part of the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 is presented in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the current status and recent changes in national forest monitoring and reporting capacities in 99 tropical countries, using the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) 2015 data, complemented with FRA 2010 and FRA 2005 data.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed all Landsat 7 imagery with <50% cloud cover and data and products from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) to quantify forest cover loss for Sumatra and Kalimantan from 2000 to 2005 and demonstrated that time-series approaches examining all good land observations are more accurate in mapping forest cover change in Indonesia than change maps based on image composites.

TL;DR: In this article, the TREES-3 project has processed more than 12,000 Landsat TM and ETM+ data subsets systematically distributed over the tropics, and the results show that the haze correction algorithm has improved the visual appearance of the image and significantly corrected the digital numbers for the red band.