Mapping Tropical Forest Cover and Deforestation with Planet NICFI Satellite Images and Deep Learning in Mato Grosso State (Brazil) from 2015 to 2021. (arXiv:2211.09806v1 [astro-ph.EP])

Monitoring changes in tree cover for rapid assessment of deforestation is
considered the critical component of any climate mitigation policy for reducing
carbon. Here, we map tropical tree cover and deforestation between 2015 and
2022 using 5 m spatial resolution Planet NICFI satellite images over the state
of Mato Grosso (MT) in Brazil and a U-net deep learning model. The tree cover
for the state was 556510.8 km$^2$ in 2015 (58.1 % of the MT State) and was
reduced to …

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