Mapping Tropical Forest Tree Cover and Deforestation with NICFI Planet Imagery and Deep Learning

Fabien Hubert Wagner1, Ricardo Dalagnol2, Celso Silva Junior2, Griffin Carter3, Alison L Ritz4, Mayumi Cursino de Moura Hirye5 and Sassan Saatchi6, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)CTREES.org, Pasadena, United States, (4)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program in Remote Sensing, Blacksburg, United States, (5)University of São Paulo --- USP, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism - Quapá Lab, São Paulo, Brazil, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States