Evaluating the utility of vegetation indices to monitoring forests in South America, Western & Central Africa, and Southeast Asia

Emil A. Cherrington1, Grégoire Vincent2, Nicolas Barbier3, Raphaël Pélissier4, Daniel Sabatier4 and Uta Berger5, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)AMAP, University of Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, AMAP, Montpellier, France, (3)IRD Institute for Research and Development, AMAP, Marseille Cedex 02, France, (4)Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), Montpellier, France, (5)Technische Universität Dresden, Institute of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Science, Dresden, Germany