A shadow fraction method for mapping biomass of northern boreal black spruce forests using QuickBird imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 488-500

  Leboeuf, A ^a   Beaudoin, A ^b   Fournier, R A ^a   Guindon, L ^b   Luther, J E ^b   Lambert, M C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomass; Black spruce; Mapping; Northern boreal forest; QuickBird; Remote sensing; Shadow fraction; Subarctic forest

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMASS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LINEAR REGRESSION; REMOTE SENSING;

GROUND SAMPLE PLOTS (GSP); SHADOW FRACTION (SF);

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; BOREAL FOREST; CONIFEROUS FOREST; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMASS; FORESTS; PICEA MARIANA; REMOTE SENSING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 34548390574     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.05.025     Document Type: Article

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