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Peer-reviewedCC BY-NC-ND 4.0Nature Ecology & Evolution

The ethical costs of remotely sensing tropical forest understories

  • Gabriel Hes
  • Sylvain Kuppel
  • Germán Baldi
  • Deliane Penha
  • Grace Barretto-Tesoro
  • Marvin D Dorosan
  • Aaron Vergel
  • Czar Jakiri S. Sarmiento
  • Freg J Stokes
  • Eduardo Neves
  • Manuel J H Peters
  • Patrick Roberts
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Abstract

Spaceborne and airborne scanning technologies are revolutionizing the study of tropical forest understories. As these datasets rapidly expand, we argue for systematic ethical consideration of whether and how to reveal the information they contain.

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@article{hes2026ethical,
  title = {{The ethical costs of remotely sensing tropical forest understories}},
  author = {Gabriel Hes and Sylvain Kuppel and Germán Baldi and Deliane Penha and Grace Barretto-Tesoro and Marvin D Dorosan and Aaron Vergel and Czar Jakiri S. Sarmiento and Freg J Stokes and Eduardo Neves and Manuel J H Peters and Patrick Roberts},
  journal = {Nature Ecology \& Evolution},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.1038/s41559-026-03187-y},
  url = {https://hal.science/hal-05753700v1},
  note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
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TY  - JOUR
TI  - The ethical costs of remotely sensing tropical forest understories
AU  - Gabriel Hes
AU  - Sylvain Kuppel
AU  - Germán Baldi
AU  - Deliane Penha
AU  - Grace Barretto-Tesoro
AU  - Marvin D Dorosan
AU  - Aaron Vergel
AU  - Czar Jakiri S. Sarmiento
AU  - Freg J Stokes
AU  - Eduardo Neves
AU  - Manuel J H Peters
AU  - Patrick Roberts
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/16
JO  - Nature Ecology & Evolution
DO  - 10.1038/s41559-026-03187-y
UR  - https://hal.science/hal-05753700v1
AB  - Spaceborne and airborne scanning technologies are revolutionizing the study of tropical forest understories. As these datasets rapidly expand, we argue for systematic ethical consideration of whether and how to reveal the information they contain.
SN  - 2397-334X
ER  -