Remote sensing estimates of boreal and temperate forest woody biomass: Carbon pools, sources, and sinks

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 393-410

  Dong, Jiarui ^a,b   Kaufmann, Robert K ^a   Myneni, Ranga B ^a   Tucker, Compton J ^b   Kauppi, Pekka E ^c   Liski, Jari ^c,d   Buermann, Wolfgang ^a   Alexeyev, V ^e   Hughes, Malcolm K ^f  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e Saint Petersburg Forest Ecological Center   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest biomass pools; Forest inventory; Kyoto Protocol; NDVI; Remote sensing; Sources and sinks

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; WOOD;

TEMPERATE FOREST WOODY BIOMASS;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON SINK; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATE FOREST;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; REMOTE SENSING; WOOD;

EID: 0037334132     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00130-X     Document Type: Article

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