Original old-growth northern forests of Iran are essential sources of genetic variation, biodiversity, commercial woody products, and various environmental services (e.g., ground water reservation, auxiliary forest products provision, wildlife habitation, and erosion control). Today, the forests are depleting ra pidly due to population growth, and associated socio-economic problems, in dustrial development, urbanism, and more recently intensive/irregular tou rism. Satellite image processing and other geo-spatial tools have been used in Iran from the early 80's to map the vegetative attributes of forests for environ mental resource monitoring. This paper aims to build up a basic assumption of when and how the spectral, spatial and temporal features of satellite-borne re mote sensing have been applied for the sustainable resource monitoring of the Caspian forests of Iran. To this end, available literature will be reviewed, spe cific features of the studies discussed in brief, and the future prospects for re mote sensing-aided delineation of structural and functional characteristics of the forests will be outlined.Keywords: Iranian Caspian forests, Natural resource monitoring and manage ment, Remote Sensing, Satellite-borne image analysis cover type, and cover change.The application of satellite image pro cessing, along with other forms of geo-refe renced digital tools, for documenting vegeta tion attributes for environmental resource monitoring in Iran has a long history dating back to the 80's. Prior to that, B/W aerial photographs, acquired as two major country wide projects in the mid 50 and 60's, served as a useful monitoring tool for forest area/ type mapping. A variety of satellite remote sensing functions have been introduced, tested and proposed by environmental ana lysts, many of which have been pointed out by Iverson et al. (1989). Forest type map ping, change detection, forest succession monitoring, stand's structure and physiolo gical parameters and forest productivity as sessment can be highlighted as some of the major applications, many of which are not known in Iran yet. Further information on the basic potential applications of satellite imagery in forest assessments can be found in the available literature (Danson 1987, Greegor 1986, Hopkins et al. 1988, Billings ley 1984, Lillesand & Kiefer 2000.The aim of this paper is to build up a basic assumption of when and how the spectral, spatial and temporal features of satelliteborne remote sensing have been applied to ward sustainable resource monitoring over Caspian forests of Iran. To this end, the available literature will be reviewed, the spe cific perspectives of the studies will be briefly discussed, and future prospects to ward the delineation of Caspian forest's structural and functional characteristics by remote sensing will be outlined. The applications of satellite image processing in Caspian forests of Iran: a reviewForest monitoring mainly focuses on de tecting and estimating the land conversion rate and more recently, on assessing carbo...
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