Estimating forest biomass with GLAS samples and MODIS imagery in Northeastern China

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7498, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fu, Anmin ^a,b   Sun, Guoqing ^a,c   Guo, Zhifeng ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b State Forestry Administration   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Forestry; LIDAR; MODIS

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON BALANCE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; FIELD SURVEYS; FOREST BIOMASS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRES; FORESTED AREA; GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEMS; GIS DATA; HEIGHT PROFILES; HOT REGIONS; K-MEANS METHOD; LAND COVER; LAND ELEVATION SATELLITES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS IMAGERY; NEAR INFRA RED; NEURAL NET; REGRESSION MODEL; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBSERVATIONS; WAVE FORMS;

AGRICULTURE; ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ATMOSPHERICS; BIOMASS; BIOMETRICS; DATA PROCESSING; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIO ALTIMETERS; RADIOMETERS; REFORESTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SPECTROMETERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIMBER; VEGETATION;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; BIOMETRICS; DATA PROCESSING; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FORESTS; GIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR; REFORESTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 71549138350     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.833596     Document Type: Conference Paper

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