Relationships between forest stand parameters and Landsat TM spectral responses in the Brazilian Amazon Basin

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 198, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 149-167

  Lu, Dengsheng ^a   Mausel, Paul ^b   Brondízio, Eduardo ^a   Moran, Emilio ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Forest stand parameters; Moist tropical forest; Spectral responses; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VEGETATION;

CANOPY FORMING; FOREST STAND PARAMETERS; THEMATIC MAPPER (TM);

ECOLOGY;

LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REMOTE SENSING; STAND STRUCTURE; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION INDEX;

DATA PROCESSING; ECOLOGY; PARAMETERS; PLANTS;

AMAZON BASIN; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 3543150133     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.03.048     Document Type: Article

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