Quantifying deforestation and forest degradation in the Congo region

Investigator: 
Peter Umunay
peter.umunay@yale.edu
Advisor: 
Timothy Gregoire
Start Date: 
January, 2015
Description: 

Through a combination of remote sensing products and field measurements, my research intends to:

  1. classify different vegetation types in the DRC,
  2. identify and quantify human-induced deforestation and forest degradation
  3. quantify carbon fluxes based on different land uses and vegetation types, and
  4. build a model that links activities causing forest lost to underlying drivers and construct reference scenarios to determine the scope for emission reductions.