An assessment of global forest cover maps using regional higher-resolution reference data sets

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 752-755

  Song, Xiao Peng ^a   Huang, Chengquan ^a   Sexton, Joseph O ^a   Feng, Min ^a,b   Narasimhan, Raghuram ^a   Channan, Saurabh ^a   Townshend, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

assessment; forest; Global; land cover; Landsat

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT; FOREST; GLOBAL; LAND COVER; LANDSAT;

GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

RATING;

EID: 80955171976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049239     Document Type: Conference Paper

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