Abstract
We establish the potential of TERRA-1 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) data for discriminating and mapping tropical secondary forest regeneration stages in the Brazilian Legal Amazon, in terms of both their age and pathway. In using MODIS data, many difficulties encountered in local to regional scale mapping and discrimination of regeneration stage using NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and fine spatial resolution Landsat/SPOT sensor data can be largely overcome.
Department
Earth Sciences, Earth Systems Research Center
Publication Date
4-2002
Journal Title
Geophysical Research Letters
Publisher
Wiley
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1029/2001GL013375
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Lucas, R., Evaluating TERRA-1 MODIS data for discrimination of tropical secondary forest regeneration stages in the Brazilian Legal Amazon, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(8), doi:10.1029/2001GL013375, 2002.
Rights
Copyright 2002 by the American Geophysical Union