Predictive relations of tropical forest biomass from Landsat TM data and their transferability between regions

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 463-474

  Foody, Giles M ^a   Boyd, Doreen S ^b   Cutler, Mark E J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomass; Landsat TM data; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ESTIMATION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

PREDICTIVE RELATIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

BIOMASS; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION METHOD; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 0037986221     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00039-7     Document Type: Article

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