A study of the relationship between radar backscatter and regenerating tropical forest biomass for spaceborne SAR instruments.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the non-parametric method with SPOT data is able to map forest AGB operatively over the cold and arid region as an alternative to the more expensive airborne LiDAR data.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified AGB associated with the different vegetation change processes over an 8-year period, for a region of Kalahari woodland savannah in northern Namibia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the successional stage of regenerating forests in a forest age map was used as a viable surrogate for forest biomass in an area north of Manaus City, Brazil.

TL;DR: In this paper, a strategie d'estimation de la biomasse totale au-dessus du sol a ete elaboree pour les forets tropicales is presented.

TL;DR: The literature on tropical secondary forests, defined as those resulting from human disturbance (e.g., logged forests and forest fallows), is reviewed to address questions related to their extent, rates of formation, ecological characteristics, values and uses to humans, and potential for management as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The purpose of this book is to reveal to the interested (but perhaps mathematically unsophisticated) user the foundations and major features of several basic methods for curve and surface fitting that are currently in use.

TL;DR: These Amazon ecosystems generally can recover after large-scale pasture disturbances and only where land has been used too intensively for long periods is reforestation uncertain, but probably less than 10% of the pasture land in northern Para has degraded to this level.