Estimating live forest carbon dynamics with a Landsat-based curve-fitting approach

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Schroeder, Todd A ^a,d   Gray, Andrew ^b   Harmon, Mark E ^a   Wallin, David O ^c   Cohen, Warren B ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chapman Richards growth curves; Forest inventory data; Landsat time series; Live forest carbon; Site index

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CURVE FITTING; FORECASTING; MAPS;

FOREST CARBONS; FOREST INVENTORY DATA; GROWTH CURVES; LANDSAT TIME SERIES; SITE INDEX;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; CARBON; DATA; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; FORECASTS; FORESTRY; INVENTORY CONTROL; LAND USE; MAPS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; SAMPLES; SATELLITES;

EID: 61349182064     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2937821     Document Type: Article

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