Understanding the relationship between aboveground biomass and ALOS PALSAR data in the forests of Guinea-Bissau (West Africa)

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 121, Issue , 2012, Pages 426-442

  Carreiras, João M B ^a   Vasconcelos, Maria J ^a   Lucas, Richard M ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass; ALOS PALSAR; Bagging stochastic gradient boosting (BagSGB); Guinea Bissau; REDD+; Remote sensing; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; ALOS PALSAR; GUINEA-BISSAU; REDD+; STOCHASTIC GRADIENT; WEST AFRICA;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; BIOMASS; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; RURAL AREAS;

MAPPING;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ALGORITHM; ALLOMETRY; ALOS; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON EMISSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPING WORLD; EMISSION CONTROL; ERROR CORRECTION; FOREST COVER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HETEROGENEITY; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PIXEL; SATELLITE DATA; STAND STRUCTURE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; BIOMASS; DATA PROCESSING; DEFORESTATION; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; WEST AFRICA;

GUINEA-BISSAU;

ARECACEAE;

EID: 84858716754     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.02.012     Document Type: Article

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