Improved forest biomass and carbon estimations using texture measures from worldView-2 satellite data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 810-829

  Eckert, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass; Correlation; Forest carbon; Madagascar; REDD; Regression analysis; Tropical rainforest; WorldView 2

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; MADAGASCAR; REDD; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; WORLDVIEW-2;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CORRELATION METHODS; EMISSION CONTROL; ESTIMATION; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; TEXTURES; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84861313046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4040810     Document Type: Article

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