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Remote Sens. 2012, 4, 2595-2618; doi:10.3390/rs4092595 OPEN ACCESS Remote Sensing ISSN 2072-4292 /journal/remotesensing Article Overcoming Limitations with Landsat Imagery for Mapping of Peat Swamp Forests in Sundaland Lahiru S. Wijedasa 1,2,3,*, Sean Sloan 4 , Dimitrios G. Michelakis 5 and Gopalasamy R. Clements 3,4,6 1 Singapore Botanic Gardens, 1, Cluny Road, Singapore 259569, Singapore 2 Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20a Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, UK 3 Rimba, 18E Kampung Basung, Kuala Berang 21700, Terengganu, Malaysia; E-Mail: reuben@ 4 Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD 4870, Australia; E-Mail: sean.sloan@.au 5 School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Geography Building, Drummond Street, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, UK; E-Mail: dimmihel@ 6 Center for Malaysian Indigenous Studies, University Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: lahirux@; Tel.: +65-90-667-160; Fax: +65-64-674-832. Received: 11 July 2012; in revised form: 3 September 2012 / Accepted: 4 September 2012 / Published: 10 September 2012 Abstract: Landsat can be used to map tropical forest cover at 15–60 m resolution, which is helpful for detecting small but important perturbations in increasingly fragmented forests. However, among the remaining Landsat satellites, Landsat-5 no longer has global coverage and, since 2003, a mechanical fault in the Scan-Line Corrector (SLC-Off) of the Landsat-7 satellite resulted