Integration of radar and Landsat-derived foliage projected cover for woody regrowth mapping, Queensland, Australia

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 388-406

  Lucas, Richard M ^a   Cronin, Natasha ^b   Moghaddam, Mahta ^c   Lee, Alex ^d   Armston, John ^b   Bunting, Peter ^a   Witte, Christian ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Natural Resource Sciences ^*  (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Biomass; Land cover change; Landsat; Queensland; Regrowth mapping; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAPPING; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AUSTRALIA; LAND COVER CHANGE; LANDSAT; QUEENSLAND; REGROWTH MAPPING;

FORESTRY;

FOLIAGE; LANDSAT; RADAR; REGROWTH; VEGETATION MAPPING;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

ACACIA; ACACIA HARPOPHYLLA;

EID: 31344481547     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2005.09.020     Document Type: Article

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