To date, forest alert products have mostly covered the humid tropics, limiting the availability of near-real-time data on the global effects of deforestation, industrial timber harvesting, selective logging, fragmentation, fire, and roads. To address this data gap, CTrees launched the free Land Use Change Alerts (LUCA) product last fall as the first radar-based alert system to cover all forest biomes. LUCA provides reliable alerts every two weeks for humid and dry tropics, as well as temperate and boreal forest areas. In a paper published in Remote Sensing this week, Adugna Mullissa, Ph.D., lead scientist, explores the methodology, validation, and results from LUCA. Read the paper: https://lnkd.in/gWQMb_nP LUCA detects forest land use changes in all forest biomes in unprecedented detail and accuracy, Mullissa concludes, providing a valuable tool for policy and law enforcement. Explore LUCA data: https://lnkd.in/gJQZC2Ka Co-authors of the paper include Sassan Saatchi, Ricardo Dalagnol da Silva, Tyler Erickson, Naomi Provost, Fiona Osborn, Aleena Ashary, Violet Moon, & Daniel Melling.
🌍🌳 I'm happy to announce the publication of our latest paper, "LUCA: A Sentinel-1 SAR-Based Global Forest Land Use Change Alert." 📄 In this paper, we delve into the methodology, validation, and analysis of LUCA, our recently released Sentinel-1 SAR-based near-real-time forest land use change alert system. The paper also provides comparisons with other near-real-time forest disturbance alert products. I hope this paper will give a better insight into LUCA and its scientific basis. A huge shoutout to the team Sassan Saatchi, Ricardo Dalagnol da Silva, Tyler Erickson, Naomi Provost, Fiona Osborn, Aleena Ashary, Violet Moon and Daniel Melling for their contributions. https://lnkd.in/gAF3Ui82 #Sentinel-1 #SAR #Radar #ForestMonitoring #NearRealTime #Alert
