Quantifying mortality of tropical rain forest trees using high-spatial-resolution satellite data

• Published in: Ecology letters Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 52 - 59
• Main Authors: Clark, David B., Castro, Carlomagno Soto, Alvarado, Luis Diego Alfaro, Read, Jane M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Science Ltd 01.01.2004
• Subjects: Costa Rica; IKONOS; La Selva Biological Station; QuickBird; remote sensing; tree mortality rates; tropical rain forest; Costa Rica

Assessment of forest responses to climate change is severely hampered by the limited information on tree death on short temporal and broad spatial scales, particularly in tropical forests. We used 1‐m resolution panchromatic IKONOS and 0.7‐m resolution QuickBird satellite data, acquired in 2000 and...