Large-Area Classification and Mapping of Forest and Land Cover in the Brazilian Amazon: A Comparative Analysis of ALOS/PALSAR and Landsat Data Sources

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 594-604

  Walker, Wayne S ^a   Kellndorfer, Josef M ^a   Kirsch, Katie M ^a   Stickler, Claudia M ^a,b   Nepstad, Daniel C ^a,b  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ALOS; deforestation; degradation; forest cover; land cover; Landsat; PALSAR; radar; REDD; Xingu

Indexed keywords

ALOS; FOREST COVER; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; PALSAR; REDD; XINGU;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; LANDFORMS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SPACE APPLICATIONS; TROPICS;

RADAR IMAGING;

ALOS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEFORESTATION; FOREST COVER; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TROPICS;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; XINGU RIVER;

EID: 78650504302     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2076398     Document Type: Article

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