Supporting large-area, sample-based forest inventories with very high spatial resolution satellite imagery

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 403-423

  Falkowski, Michael J ^b   Wulder, Michael A ^a   White, Joanne C ^a   Gillis, Mark D ^a  

^a PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest; Image processing; Inventory; Landsat; Monitoring; Quickbird; Sampling; Update; Very high spatial resolution; Worldview

Indexed keywords

FOREST INVENTORY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MONITORING; QUICKBIRD; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPOT;

EID: 77951211789     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133309342643     Document Type: Article

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