Large-scale monitoring of coppice forest clearcuts by multitemporal very high resolution satellite imagery. A case study from central Italy

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1025-1033

  Chirici, Gherardo ^a   Giuliarelli, Diego ^b   Biscontini, Daniele ^c   Tonti, Daniela ^a   Mattioli, Walter ^b   Marchetti, Marco ^a   Corona, Piermaria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^c Earth Observation   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clearcut mapping; Coppice forest; Forest statistics; GMES forest monitoring; Object oriented classification; SPOT5 HRG

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CARBON; ERROR STATISTICS; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; MAPPING; PIXELS; SATELLITES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COPPICE FOREST; DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST MONITORING; OBJECT ORIENTED APPROACH; OBJECT ORIENTED CLASSIFICATION; SPOT5 HRG; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CARBON BUDGET; CLEARCUTTING; COPPICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST RESOURCE; HARVESTING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPOT; VEGETATION MAPPING;

COPPICE; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; MONITORING; RATING; SATELLITES; STATISTICS;

ITALY;

EID: 79960746968     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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