Assessment of multispectral, -temporal and -angular MODIS data for tree cover mapping in the tundra-taiga transition zone

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2367-2380

  Heiskanen, Janne ^a   Kivinen, Sonja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Generalized linear models; GLM; Variation partitioning; Vegetation continuous fields

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA REDUCTION; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GENERALIZED LINEAR MODELS; VARIATION PARTITIONING; VEGETATION CONTINUOUS FIELDS;

PHOTOMAPPING;

BIOTOPE; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; ECOTONE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FOREST INVENTORY; GROWING SEASON; MODIS; SATELLITE DATA; TRANSITION ZONE; TUNDRA; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION MAPPING;

FINLAND; FORESTS; MAPPING; TAIGA;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 41249086917     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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