Accuracy assessment of a large-scale forest cover map of central siberia from synthetic aperture radar

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 719-737

  Balzter, Heiko ^a   Talmon, Evelin ^b   Wagner, Wolfgang ^c   Gaveau, David ^a   Plummer, Stephen ^a   Yu, Jiong Jiong ^d   Quegan, Shaun ^d   Davidson, Malcolm ^e   Toan, Thuy Le ^e   Gluck, Michael ^f   Shvidenko, Anatoly ^f   Nilsson, Sten ^f   Tansey, Kevin ^g   Luckman, Adrian ^g   Schmullius, Christiane ^h  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e CESBIO   (France)

^f INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^g SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FOREST MAP COVERING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0013006373     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m02-067     Document Type: Article

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