Mapping tropical forest fractional cover from coarse spatial resolution remote sensing imagery

Plant Ecology

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 143-154

  Foody, Giles M ^a   Lucas, Richard M ^a   Curran, Paul J ^a   Honzak, Miroslav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Fraction images; Remote sensing; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; FOREST COVER; FOREST MONITORING; MAPPING; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TROPICAL FOREST;

BRAZIL, MATO GROSSO STATE;

EID: 0030984130     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009775619936     Document Type: Article

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