Preface, 2012 ForestSAT Special Issue

Patrick Griffiths, Tobias Kuemmerle, Matthias Baumann, Volker C. Radeloff, Ioan V. Abrudan, Juraj Lieskovsky, Catalina Munteanu, Katarzyna Ostapowicz, Patrick Hostert, Forest disturbances, forest recovery, and changes in forest types across the Carpathian ecoregion from 1985 to 2010 based on Landsat image composites Remote Sensing of Environment. ,vol. 151, pp. 72- 88 ,(2014) , 10.1016/J.RSE.2013.04.022

Damien Sulla-Menashe, Robert E Kennedy, Zhiqiang Yang, Justin Braaten, Olga N Krankina, Mark A Friedl, None, Detecting forest disturbance in the Pacific Northwest from MODIS time series using temporal segmentation Remote Sensing of Environment. ,vol. 151, pp. 114- 123 ,(2014) , 10.1016/J.RSE.2013.07.042

Nicholas S. Skowronski, Kenneth L. Clark, Michael Gallagher, Richard A. Birdsey, John L. Hom, Airborne laser scanner-assisted estimation of aboveground biomass change in a temperate oak–pine forest Remote Sensing of Environment. ,vol. 151, pp. 166- 174 ,(2014) , 10.1016/J.RSE.2013.12.015

Ronald E. McRoberts, Post-classification approaches to estimating change in forest area using remotely sensed auxiliary data Remote Sensing of Environment. ,vol. 151, pp. 149- 156 ,(2014) , 10.1016/J.RSE.2013.03.036

Dirk Pflugmacher, Warren B. Cohen, Robert E. Kennedy, Zhiqiang Yang, Using Landsat-derived disturbance and recovery history and lidar to map forest biomass dynamics Remote Sensing of Environment. ,vol. 151, pp. 124- 137 ,(2014) , 10.1016/J.RSE.2013.05.033

Michael Schlund, Felicitas von Poncet, Dirk H. Hoekman, Steffen Kuntz, Christiane Schmullius, Importance of bistatic SAR features from TanDEM-X for forest mapping and monitoring Remote Sensing of Environment. ,vol. 151, pp. 16- 26 ,(2014) , 10.1016/J.RSE.2013.08.024

Tatjana Koukal, Clement Atzberger, Werner Schneider, Evaluation of semi-empirical BRDF models inverted against multi-angle data from a digital airborne frame camera for enhancing forest type classification Remote Sensing of Environment. ,vol. 151, pp. 27- 43 ,(2014) , 10.1016/J.RSE.2013.12.014

Van R. Kane, Malcolm P. North, James A. Lutz, Derek J. Churchill, Susan L. Roberts, Douglas F. Smith, Robert J. McGaughey, Jonathan T. Kane, Matthew L. Brooks, Assessing fire effects on forest spatial structure using a fusion of Landsat and airborne LiDAR data in Yosemite National Park Remote Sensing of Environment. ,vol. 151, pp. 89- 101 ,(2014) , 10.1016/J.RSE.2013.07.041

Christophe Sannier, Ronald E. McRoberts, Louis-Vincent Fichet, Etienne Massard K. Makaga, Using the regression estimator with Landsat data to estimate proportion forest cover and net proportion deforestation in Gabon Remote Sensing of Environment. ,vol. 151, pp. 138- 148 ,(2014) , 10.1016/J.RSE.2013.09.015

Dan J. Krofcheck, Jan U.H. Eitel, Lee A. Vierling, Urs Schulthess, Timothy M. Hilton, Eva Dettweiler-Robinson, Rosemary Pendleton, Marcy E. Litvak, Detecting mortality induced structural and functional changes in a piñon-juniper woodland using Landsat and RapidEye time series Remote Sensing of Environment. ,vol. 151, pp. 102- 113 ,(2014) , 10.1016/J.RSE.2013.11.009