Large area forest stem volume mapping in the boreal zone using synergy of ERS-1/2 tandem coherence and MODIS vegetation continuous fields

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 931-943

  Cartus, Oliver ^a   Santoro, Maurizio ^b   Schmullius, Christiane ^a   Li, Zengyuan ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; China; Coherence; ERS; MODIS VCF; Siberia; Stem volume

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FORESTS; CHINA; COHERENCE; ERS; MODIS VCF; SIBERIA; STEM VOLUME;

FORESTRY; MAPPING; RADIOMETERS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

VEGETATION;

BOREAL FOREST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; ERS-1; ERS-2; FOREST COVER; FOREST INVENTORY; METEOROLOGY; MODIS; STEM; VEGETATION MAPPING; VOLUME;

CHINA; FORESTRY; MAPPING; PLANTS; SIBERIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TESTING;

CHINA; SIBERIA;

EID: 78651428989     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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