A first map of tropical Africa's above-ground biomass derived from satellite imagery

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Baccini, A ^a   Laporte, N ^a   Goetz, S J ^a   Sun, M ^a   Dong, H ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Carbon; GLAS; Lidar; MODIS; Random Forest; REDD; Regression tree

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS;

GLAS; MODIS; RANDOM FORESTS; REDD; REGRESSION TREES;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 62749087773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/3/4/045011     Document Type: Article

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