Scaling up: Linking field data and remote sensing with a hierarchical model

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 509-521

  Wilson, Adam M ^a   Silander, John A ^a   Gelfand, Alan ^b   Glenn, Jonathan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Ground truthing; Hierarchical bayes; Remote sensing; Scale

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOMASS; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; NDVI; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DATA; UPSCALING; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 79957616420     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2010.522779     Document Type: Article

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