Spatial assessment of carbon stocks of living vegetation at the national level in Lao PDR

Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-26

  Hett, Cornelia ^a   Heinimann, Andreas ^a   Messerli, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon stocks; Deforestation; Lao PDR; MODIS; REDD; Spatial assessment

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARBON; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; EMISSION CONTROL; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GREENHOUSE GAS; LANDSAT; MODIS; PROTECTED AREA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

LAOS;

EID: 79959357982     PISSN: 00167223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00167223.2011.10669519     Document Type: Article

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