Quantifying the Trade-off Between Cost and Precision in Estimating Area of Forest Loss Using Probability Sampling in Guyana


Jeffrey Pickering1, Stephen V. Stehman2, Alexandra Tyukavina1, Peter Potapov1, Pete Watt3, Samuel Jantz4, Pradeepa Bholanath5 and Matthew Hansen1, (1)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (2)State University of New York, Department of Sustainable Resources Management, Syracuse, United States, (3)Indufor Asia Pacific, Auckland, New Zealand, (4)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (5)Guyana Forestry Commission, Planning and Development, Georgetown, Guyana