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Field documentation of forest cover changes for the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2000

Year of publication 2000

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) FAO, at the request of member nations and the world community, regularly monitors the world’s forests through the Forest Resources Assessment Programme. The next report, the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2000 (FRA 2000), will review the forest situation by the end of the millennium. FRA 2000 will include country-level information based on existing forest inventory data, regional investigations of land-cover change processes, and a number of global studies focusing on the interaction between people and forests. The FRA 2000 report is made public at the end of the year. Findings will be distributed on the World Wide Web in the year 2000. One component of FRA 2000 is a survey of forest cover changes using satellite remote sensing. The survey is based on a pan-tropical sample of 117 Landsat TM images from three points in time during the period 1980-2000. The images are interpreted as to observable changes in the forest cover, and will provide objective estimates on a regional level. T his working paper documents both quantitatively and qualitatively three observed forest cover changes in the northeastern part of Thailand. The objectives and methodology of the RSS are described in detail in the Forest Resources Assessment Working Paper number eight.

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