Advances in remote sensing technology and implications for measuring and monitoring forest carbon stocks and change

Carbon Management

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 231-244

  Goetz, Scott ^a   Dubayah, Ralph ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON STOCKS; CURRENT STATUS; DATA SETS; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; EARTH ORBITING SATELLITES; FOREST COVER; FOREST DEGRADATION; FOREST MONITORING; INTERNATIONAL POLICIES; INTERNATIONAL REPORTING; LAND-USE CHANGE; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; OPERATIONAL READINESS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGES;

AIRCRAFT DETECTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEFORESTATION; EARTH (PLANET); GLOBAL WARMING; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

MONITORING;

AIR CRAFT; CARBON DIOXIDE; DATA PROCESSING; DEFORESTATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

EID: 79959360264     PISSN: 17583004     EISSN: 17583012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/cmt.11.18     Document Type: Review

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