The Road to Operationalization of Effective Tropical Forest Monitoring Systems

The urgency to preserve tropical forest remnants has encouraged the development of remote sensing tools and techniques monitor diverse attributes for management conservation. State-of-the-art methodologies mapping tracking these usually achieve accuracies greater than 0.8 cover monitoring; r-square values ~0.5–0.7 plant diversity, vegetation structure, functional trait mapping, overall ~0.8 categorical maps attributes. Nonetheless, existing operational monitoring systems only track single at national global scales. For design implementation effective integrated systems, we recommend integration multiple data sources structural, functional, compositional We also its decentralized adjusting methods local climatic ecological characteristics proper end-user engagement. operationalization system should be based on all open-source computing platforms, leveraging international support in research ensuring direct constant user continuing efforts address challenges monitoring.