Assessing urban forest canopy cover using airborne or satellite imagery

Arboriculture and Urban Forestry

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 334-340

  Walton, Jeffrey T ^a   Nowak, David J ^b   Greenfield, Eric J ^b  

^a PAUL SMITH S COLLEGE   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Remote sensing; Urban tree canopy

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATA INTERPRETATION; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN FORESTRY;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; SYRACUSE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56449083046     PISSN: 02785226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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