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Conventional satellite imagery may underestimate forest clearing for subsistence agriculture

2013-12-09 19:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Analysis of forest cover using medium-scale satellite imagery may miss deforestation for small-scale subsistence agriculture, finds a study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. The study, which involved researchers from the University of Maryland, the State University of New York and Woods Hole Research Center, is based on change in forest cover in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which accounts for the bulk of the world's second largest tropical rainforest. The researchers...

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