Monitoring the world's savanna biomass by earth observation

Scottish Geographical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 218-225

  Viergever, Karin M ^a   Woodhouse, Iain H ^a   Stuart, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomass estimation; Environmental studies; Remote sensing; Savanna; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST CANOPY; MONITORING; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SAVANNA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WOODLAND;

BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA]; CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 56349145646     PISSN: 14702541     EISSN: 1751665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14702540802425279     Document Type: Article

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