Subpixel forest cover in central Africa from multisensor, multitemporal data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 228-246

  DeFries, Ruth ^a   Hansen, Matthew ^a   Steininger, Marc ^a   Dubayah, Ralph ^a   Sohlberg, Robert ^a   Townshend, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSORS;

MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; REGRESSION TREES;

REMOTE SENSING;

AVHRR; FOREST COVER; LANDSAT MSS; LANDSAT MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUBPIXEL;

AFRICA, (CENTRAL);

EID: 0031156276     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00119-8     Document Type: Article

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