1. A Difficult Region for Remote Sensing Studies Probability of imaging the Brazilian Legal Amazon Once per year… Asner (2001) Int’l J. of Remote Sensing Probability of Landsat observations from 54,451 scenes

2. & Rescaling Resampling Resizing 6S Atmospheric Correction AutoMCU Spectral Model Raw Landsat ETM+ Image Geo Correction, Resampling Conversion to Radiance Landsat Radiance in Optical Bands Thermal Band Landsat Reflectance Masks Thermal-Cloud Reflectance-Water Raw-Boundary Raw AutoMCU Results Standard Deviation & RMS Mosaic-ready PV, NPV & Bare Substrate Images Cloud Shadow Mask MODIS Satellite Aerosol and Water Vapor Products Before Images After Images PV, NPV, RMS Change Images Differencing Thermal Change Image Non-forest Mask Linear Feature Extraction Atmospheric adjustment Logging “Nodes” and Linear Feature Images Pattern Recognition PV + NPV Texture Criteria PV Change Criteria Final Integration Preliminary Logging Image Manual Review Logging Results Adjusted PV & NPV Change Images Thermal Change Image NPV Change Criteria CLAS Flowchart

4. Asner et al. 2005 Earth Interactions

5. Asner et al. 2005 Earth Interactions

6. 2000 1999 Asner et al., Ecol. Apps. (in press) Photosynthetic Vegetation Fractional Cover (PV) and Canopy GAP Asner et al. 2004 Ecological Applications

7. Estimating Gross Carbon Flux from Selective Logging Delta-PV for each Logging Polygon Delta-GAP for each Logging Polygon Gap-Volume Relationships Coarse Woody Debris and Collateral Carbon Losses at the Site Total Carbon Committed to Atmosphere PV-gap relationships (Asner et al. 2004, 2005) Gap-volume relationships (Pereira et al. 2002) Harvest-damage relationships (Keller et al. 2004a,b) Sum with Asner et al. 2005 Science Carbon Removed From the Site Volume-density (Keller et al. 2004a,b, others)

8. 20012000 1999 20012000 1999 20012000 1999 20012000 1999 20012000 1999 20012000 1999 20012000 1999 20012000 1999 20012000 1999 20012000 1999 20012000 1999 Rates of Canopy-Foliar Closure Asner et al. 2004 Ecological Applications