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Projecten - dr.ir. AI (Alvaro) Lau Sarmiento MSc
(2018 - 2020) Combining remote sensing and 3D forest modelling to improve tropical forests monitoring of greenhouse gases emissions – 3DForMod
3DForMod focuses on emissions resulting from tropical forest degradation. Deforestation and forest degradation is considered the second largest source of global anthropogenic GHG emissions. While there is a pressing need to go beyond satellite-based land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) survey to accurately monitor carbon stocks in the tropics, there is no operational integrated framework to achieve this goal. In particular, much uncertainty comes from the difficult evaluation of forest degradation impact, which does not entail forest conversion.