Radar remote sensing for the delineation of forest cover maps and the detection of deforestation

Forestry

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 589-597

  Thiel, C ^a   Drezet, P ^b   Weise, C ^a   Quegan, S ^b   Schmullius, C ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BOREAL FOREST; CLEARCUTTING; DEFORESTATION; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; JERS-1; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; THINNING; VEGETATION MAPPING;

BRATTAKER; CENTRAL EUROPE; CHUNSKY; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; KIELDER FOREST; KRASNOYARSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORTHUMBERLAND; REMNINGSTORP; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; THURINGIA; UNITED KINGDOM; VASTERBOTTEN; VASTRA GOTALAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33845252879     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpl036     Document Type: Article

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