There are several drivers of forest degradation in Southeast Asia including unsustainable selective logging (legal and illegal),
shifting cultivation, small-holder forest encroachments, fuel wood collection, wood extraction for charcoal production,
overgrazing, fires and even changes of natural water regimes. In this paper, we concentrate on the most dominant and physically
destructive forms of forest disturbances that are in principle detectable on 5–30 m resolution remotely sensed data