ASSESSING THE CAUSES OF TROPICAL FOREST DEGRADATION USING LANDSAT TIME SERIES

This video was part of the IGARSS 2021 session on “Research Challenges and Recent Advances for Tropical Forest Monitoring"

Title: Assessing the causes of tropical forest degradation using Landsat time series: A case study in the Brazilian Amazon

Authors: Julie Betbeder, CIRAD, France; Damien Arvor, CNRS, France; Lilian Blanc, Guillaume Cornu, Clément Bourgoin, Renan Le Roux, Audrey Mercier, Plinio Sist, CIRAD, France; Lucas Mazzei, Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Brazil; Christian Brenez, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), Costa Rica; Hélène Dessard, Isabelle Tritsch, Valéry Gond, CIRAD, France

Presenter: Audrey Mercier.

Audrey Mercier is a doctor in Geomatics, she just defended here thesis at the University of Rennes 2 (France) which aimed at evaluating Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time series for the identification and characterization of ecological continuities. She is currently working in the Forests and Societies unit at CIRAD (France). The objective of this post-doctoral work is to develop a method for monitoring and characterizing forest degradation, mainly due to artisanal logging, using time series of optical and SAR satellite images.