While aerial surveillance is widely used to monitor wildlife, monitoring of deforestation is usually carried out by remote sensing of satellite images. WWF in Madagascar have been using aerial photography to monitor deforestation in protected areas in real time, but I have not been able to find any literature on this method from other countries - does anybody know of any programmes that use aerial photography for this purpose?
For your ready reference, please see this in which authors used historic aerial photographs for monitoring deforestation.
Gao J, Liu Y (2012) Deforestation in Heilongjiang Province of China, 1896–2000: Severity, spatiotemporal patterns and causes Applied Geography 35:345-352
Dear Charlie,
I think you should contact Dr. Pappalardo and discuss this with him.
He works with remote sensing of the Ecuadoran jungle studying deforestation, among other subjects.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Salvatore_Pappalardo
cheers,
Elia
Is usually to use aerial autobiographies to accuracy propose, but almost always jointly with satellite images. Big real time detection initiatives exist around the world. But, most of them use satellite images for large areas, always will be shipper than aerial photos.
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