Variographic analysis of tropical forest cover from multi-scale remotely sensed imagery

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 58, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 330-341

  Colombo, Sergio ^a   Chica Olmo, Mario ^b   Abarca, Francisco ^b   Eva, Hugh ^c  

^a Ctro Invest Y Formacion Agraria G   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

multi scale analysis; remote sensing; spatial variability structure; tropical forest cover; variogram

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAPPING; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TROPICS;

SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; VARIOGRAM FUNCTION; VARIOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

FOREST COVER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VARIOGRAM;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 3042596289     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2004.03.004     Document Type: Article

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