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Samuel Rivera

Samuel Rivera is a post-doctoral fellow in the Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratories, part of the Department of Wildland Resources in the College of Natural Resources at Utah State University. He can be reached at samuel.rivera@aggiemail.usu.edu.

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Understanding Tropical Deforestation with Remote Sensing and GIS Modeling   July 30, 2008
By: Alexander J,Hernandez ,Pablo MartinezdeAnguita,R. Douglas Ramsey,Samuel Rivera

More than 60 percent of the primary forest of tropical ecosystems has already been lost, and government agencies are struggling to prevent further destruction. In Honduras, GIS techniques, lifestyle surveys, and satellite imagery of forested areas all helped to determine the variables that predict...more >>