RECOVERY OF FOREST STRUCTURE AND SPECTRAL PROPERTIES AFTER SELECTIVE LOGGING IN LOWLAND BOLIVIA.

The article present a study on forest structure recovery and spectral properties after selective logging in lowland Bolivia. The study is aimed at monitoring and enforcing forest management regulations. The researchers used high-technology remote sensing devices to effectively monitor selective logging in the Bolivian Amazon like the advanced spaceborne thermal emission and reflection radiometer (ASTER) satellite and the probabilistic spectral mixture model for deriving per-pixel fractional cover estimates of photosynthetic vegetation (PV), non-PV, and soil. The results were differentiated with the normalized difference in vegetation index. They found that individual felling-gap area was correlated with canopy openness, percentage liana coverage, and rates of vegetation regrowth.