Biomass measurements and relationships with Landsat-7/ETM + and JERS-1/SAR data over Canada's western sub-arctic and low arctic

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2355-2376

  Chen, Wenjun ^a   Blain, D ^b,d   Li, Junhua ^a   Keohler, K ^c   Fraser, R ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a   Leblanc, S ^a   Olthof, I ^a   Wang, Jixin ^a   Mcgovern, M ^b  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY   (Canada)

^d LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; BIOMASS EQUATIONS; BIOMASS MEASUREMENTS; LAND-USE CHANGE; PERCENTAGE ERROR; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; TWO-STEP APPROACH;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 70349513405     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802549401     Document Type: Article

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