First phase of pan-tropical forest mapping debuts

Tropical forest loss accounts for an estimated 17 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. For tropical nations to be effective in tracking and reporting their emissions reductions from forest management and conservation, baseline data sets enabling wall-to-wall forest mapping and monitoring are invaluable. The Woods Hole Research Center has initiated a project focused on producing spatially consistent pan-tropical data sets to support the monitoring of forest cover and associated carbon stocks stored in above-ground forest biomass.

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