Modifying geographically weighted regression for estimating aboveground biomass in tropical rainforests by multispectral remote sensing data

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 82-90

  Propastin, Pavel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass; Geographically and altitudinal weighted; Regression; Spatial non stationarity; Sulawesi; Tropical rainforest; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALTITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; MONTANE FOREST; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECISION; RAINFOREST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TERRAIN; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION INDEX;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; SULAWESI; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 84864514634     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2011.12.013     Document Type: Article

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