Using new techniques, scientists have developed ultra-high resolution ... provides detailed 3-D images of the forest canopy using laser pulses. CLASlite converts dense tropical forest cover ...

high-resolution satellite imagery, the job of monitoring deforestation in tropical forests just got a lot easier. Planet uses satellites to capture images of the Earth on a daily basis.

The team, led by Matthew Hansen, a remote sensing scientist at the University of Maryland, calculated that since 2000, the world lost 888,000 square miles (2.3 million km 2) of forest and gained ...

Planet looks forward to seeing how partners and users continue to innovate on how to leverage high-resolution satellite monitoring to reduce and reverse tropical forest loss and combat climate change.

But the power of the map lies in its granularity which comes from its 30 meter resolution ... rainforests and dense tropical dry forests of Africa and Eurasia also had high rates of loss.” ...

But according to a new study published in Nature, some tropical forests — including the ... canopy using both research towers and high resolution images from the International Space Station ...