Estimation of tropical forest area from coarse spatial resolution data: A two-step correction function for proportional errors due to spatial aggregation

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 1-15

  Mayaux, Philippe ^a   Lambin, Eric F ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; COARSE RESOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERROR; FOREST ESTIMATION; LANDSAT TM; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPICS;

EID: 0028984719     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-4257(95)00038-3     Document Type: Article

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