Assessing Forest Resources in Mexico: Wall-to-Wall Land Use/Cover Mapping

Assessing Forest Resources in Mexico: Wall-to-Wall Land Use/Cover Mapping - PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING, 68(10), p.966-968, 2002 .

Mexico, encompassing a continental territory of nearly two millions square kilometers, is one of the five biologically richest countries, therefore considered as megadiverse. However, the country is undergoing rapid processes of land use /cover change with rates of deforestation of 0.25 and 0.76