Hierarchical mapping of Northern Eurasian land cover using MODIS data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 392-403

  Sulla Menashe, Damien ^a   Friedl, Mark A ^a   Krankina, Olga N ^b   Baccini, Alessandro ^c   Woodcock, Curtis E ^a   Sibley, Adam ^a   Sun, Guoqing ^d   Kharuk, Viacheslav ^e   Elsakov, Vladimir ^f  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

^f INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Classification; Decision trees; Hierarchical classification system; Land cover; MODIS

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLASSIFICATION; HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MODIS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION TREES; LAND USE; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

RADIOMETERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CLASSIFICATION; DATA SET; DATABASE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LAND COVER; LAND USE; MAPPING METHOD; MODIS; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; TUNDRA; WETLAND;

EURASIA;

EID: 78650906652     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.09.010     Document Type: Article

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