Using a land cover classification based on satellite imagery to improve the precision of forest inventory area estimates

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 36-44

  McRoberts, Ronald E ^a   Wendt, Daniel G ^a   Nelson, Mark D ^a   Hansen, Mark H ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FORESTRY; SATELLITES;

IMAGE REGISTRATIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

CLASSIFICATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST COVER; FOREST INVENTORY; PRECISION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 0036267078     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(01)00330-3     Document Type: Article

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