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Trends in Management of Tropical Forests: Application of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System

Trends in Management of Tropical Forests: Application of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System

Jacinta U. Ezenwenyi, Onyekachi Chukwu
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781799800149|ISBN10: 1799800148|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799800156|EISBN13: 9781799800163
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0014-9.ch015
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Ezenwenyi, Jacinta U., and Onyekachi Chukwu. "Trends in Management of Tropical Forests: Application of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System." Handbook of Research on the Conservation and Restoration of Tropical Dry Forests, edited by Rahul Bhadouria, et al., IGI Global, 2020, pp. 284-305. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0014-9.ch015

APA

Ezenwenyi, J. U. & Chukwu, O. (2020). Trends in Management of Tropical Forests: Application of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System. In R. Bhadouria, S. Tripathi, P. Srivastava, & P. Singh (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Conservation and Restoration of Tropical Dry Forests (pp. 284-305). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0014-9.ch015

Chicago

Ezenwenyi, Jacinta U., and Onyekachi Chukwu. "Trends in Management of Tropical Forests: Application of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System." In Handbook of Research on the Conservation and Restoration of Tropical Dry Forests, edited by Rahul Bhadouria, et al., 284-305. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0014-9.ch015

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Abstract

Forests are important plant communities that consist of trees and other woody vegetation that performs life-supporting functions on Earth. This chapter presents the application concepts necessary to link remote sensing data and geographic information system to conservation, restoration, and sustainable management of tropical forests. Despite the rising global concern, there is still continuous destruction of tropical forests at an alarming rate. This chapter assessed various approaches for conservation, restoration, and sustainable management of tropical forests using remote sensed data and geographic information system. This involves their applications to biodiversity conservation, forest ecophysiology, forest trees' disease and insect interactions, forest mensuration, forest resources monitoring and evaluation, forest fires, land use and land cover dynamics, and vegetation cover.

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