Comment on 'A first map of tropical Africa's above-ground biomass derived from satellite imagery'

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Mitchard, E T A ^a   Saatchi, S S ^b   Lewis, S L ^c   Feldpausch, T R ^c   Gerard, F F ^d   Woodhouse, I H ^a   Meir, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aboveground biomass; Africa; AGB; carbon; GLAS; LiDAR; MODIS; random forest; regression tree; remote sensing; savanna; tropical forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355132869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/049001     Document Type: Article

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