Satellite detection of land-use change and effects on regional forest aboveground biomass estimates

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 144, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 67-79

  Zheng, Daolan ^a   Heath, Linda S ^b   Ducey, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass density; Change detection; Land cover map; Remote sensing; Total biomass

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING;

BIOMASS DENSITY; CHANGE DETECTION; LAND USE CHANGES; LAND-COVER MAP; TOTAL BIOMASS;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; AVHRR; FOREST COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROPLAND; DRY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST STRUCTURE; GRASSLAND; LAND USE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DETECTOR; REMOTE SENSING; SCALE UP; SCRUB; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; TREES;

MICHIGAN; MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 51649089611     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-9946-1     Document Type: Article

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