Broad-scale spatial pattern of forest landscape types in the Guiana Shield

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 357-367

  Gond, Valéry ^a   Freycon, Vincent ^a   Molino, Jean François ^b   Brunaux, Olivier ^c   Ingrassia, Florent ^c   Joubert, Pierre ^c   Pekel, Jean François ^d,f   Prévost, Marie Françoise ^b   Thierron, Viviane ^e   Trombe, Pierre Julien ^c   Sabatier, Daniel ^b  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b UMR AMAP   (France)

^c ONF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^e WWF   (France)

^f JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Forest landscape types; Guiana shield; Remote sensing; Spatial pattern; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST CANOPY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RAINFOREST; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION MAPPING;

GUYANA SHIELD;

EID: 79955610091     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2011.01.004     Document Type: Article

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