Year: 2020

The article “Wide-Area Near-Real-Time Monitoring of Tropical Forest Degradation and Deforestation Using Sentinel-1” has been published in Remote Sensing as part of the Special Issue Advances in Remote Sensing for Global Forest Monitoring. First author is Dirk Hoekman, senior radar specialist at SarVision, and one of the founders. The article is available online at: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/19/3263

SarVision helps WWF with monitoring the deforestation of the rainforests.We process satellite images to track the changes in the rainforests in Indonesia, Surinam and Guiana. The Congo Basin and the rest of Asia and the Amazon are next.With every orbit of the satellite we track changes in forests, plantations, other vegetation and land usage, thus assisting the...