Monitoring forest carbon sequestration with remote sensing and carbon cycle modeling

Environmental Management

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 457-466

  Turner, David P ^a   Guzy, Michael ^a   Lefsky, Michael A ^b   Ritts, William D ^a   Van Tuyl, Steve ^a   Law, Beverly E ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Forest; Modeling; Monitoring; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; HARVESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; TIMBER;

CARBON CYCLES; CARBON SEQUESTRATION;

FORESTRY;

CARBON;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; TIMBER HARVESTING;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; DECOMPOSITION; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LAND USE; MODEL; REMOTE SENSING;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3042784369     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-9103-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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