Remote sensing of land-use change for Kyoto Protocol reporting: The New Zealand case

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 16, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-8

  Dymond, John R ^a   Shepherd, James D ^a   Newsome, Peter F ^a   Gapare, Nelson ^b   Burgess, Deborah W ^b   Watt, Peter ^c  

^a Ministry for the Environment ^*  (New Zealand)

^b Ministry for the Environment New Zealand   (New Zealand)

^c Poyry Management Consulting (NZ) Ltd   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Deforestation; Forest inventory; Kyoto forest; National mapping; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; DEFORESTATION; LAND USE; NEW ZEALAND; POLYGONACEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

EID: 83455260333     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2011.11.011     Document Type: Article

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