Mapping forest degradation in the Eastern Amazon from SPOT 4 through spectral mixture models

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 494-506

  Souza Jr , Carlos ^a,b   Firestone, Laurel ^a   Silva, Luciano Moreira ^a   Roberts, Dar ^b  

^a Inst Homem Meio Ambiente Amazonia   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Fire; Forest degradation; Mixture models; Nonphotosynthetic vegetation; Selective logging

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CORRELATION METHODS; DEGRADATION; FORESTRY; STATISTICS;

DECISION TREE CLASSIFIER (DTC);

REMOTE SENSING;

DEFORESTATION; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SELECTIVE LOGGING; SPOT;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS;

EID: 0442329984     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2002.08.002     Document Type: Article

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