A comparison of four methods to map biomass from Landsat-TM and inventory data in western Newfoundland

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 226, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 129-144

  Labrecque, S ^a   Fournier, R A ^a   Luther, J E ^b   Piercey, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest biomass; Landsat TM; Mapping; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYS;

DIRECT RADIOMETRIC RELATIONSHIPS (DRR); FOREST BIOMASS; LANDSAT-TM; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERROR (RMSE);

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; LANDSAT; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING;

BIOMASS; DATA PROCESSING; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYS;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33645912920     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.01.030     Document Type: Article

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