Global characterization and monitoring of forest cover using Landsat data: Opportunities and challenges

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 373-397

  Townshend, John R ^a   Masek, Jeffrey G ^b   Huang, Chengquan ^a   Vermote, Eric F ^a   Gao, Feng ^c   Channan, Saurabh ^a   Sexton, Joseph O ^a   Feng, Min ^a   Narasimhan, Raghuram ^a   Kim, Dohyung ^a   Song, Kuan ^a   Song, Danxia ^a   Song, Xiao Peng ^a   Noojipady, Praveen ^a   Tan, Bin ^b   Hansen, Matthew C ^a   Li, Mengxue ^a   Wolfe, Robert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

forest cover change; global mapping; global monitoring; land cover; Landsat

Indexed keywords

FOREST COVER CHANGE; GLOBAL MAPPING; GLOBAL MONITORING; LAND COVER; LANDSAT;

FORESTRY;

CALIBRATION; CORRECTION; DETECTION METHOD; FOREST COVER; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDSAT; MODIS; MONITORING SYSTEM; PHENOLOGY; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 84866465654     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2012.713190     Document Type: Article

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