An approach to mapping forest growth stages in Queensland, Australia through integration of ALOS PALSAR and landsat sensor data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2236-2255

  Clewley, Daniel ^a   Lucas, Richard ^a   Accad, Arnon ^b   Armston, John ^c,d   Bowen, Michiala ^d   Dwyer, John ^e   Pollock, Sandy ^b   Bunting, Peter ^a   McAlpine, Clive ^d   Eyre, Teresa ^b   Kelly, Annie ^b   Carreiras, João ^f   Moghaddam, Mahta ^g  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEENSLAND HERBARIUM   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^g Powell Hall of Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; Australia; Brigalow; Classification; Foliage projective cover; Land cover change; Queensland; Regrowth mapping; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ALOS PALSAR; AUSTRALIA; BRIGALOW; LAND-COVER CHANGE; QUEENSLAND;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BACKSCATTERING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CONSERVATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; POLARIZATION; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION; SPACE RESEARCH; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

MAPPING;

EID: 84868146608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4082236     Document Type: Article

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