Text by Dr. Viktor .I. Gornyy, Laboratory Head. Scientific-Research Centre for Ecological Safety (SRCES), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Saint-Petersburg, Russia One of the most actual environmental safety problems is finding an integral index, characterizing the health of forest ecosystems at a quantitative level. It has been hypothesized that such an index may be based … Continue reading Thermodynamic approach for remote mapping of forest ecosystem disturbance and accumulated ecological losses