Sharpened mapping of tropical forest biophysical properties from coarse spatial resolution satellite sensor data

Neural Computing and Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 62-70

  Foody, G M ^a   Boyd, D S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Regression; Remote sensing; Tropical forest; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FORESTRY; MAPPING; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; SENSORS; VEGETATION;

VEGETATION INDEX;

REMOTE SENSING;

FORESTS; MAPPING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SENSORS;

EID: 0036665988     PISSN: 09410643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005210200017     Document Type: Article

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