Extraction of remote sensing-based forest management units in tropical forests

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 130, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-10

  Hou, Zhengyang ^a,b   Xu, Qing ^b   Nuutinen, Tuula ^c   Tokola, Timo ^b  

^a EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Airborne CIR; ALOS AVNIR 2; ALS; Stand delineation; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE CIR; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; ALS; AVNIR-2; BASAL AREA; DIVERSE RANGE; EMPIRICAL MODEL; FOREST DEGRADATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT UNITS; FOREST STAND; FOREST TYPE; FUTURE PROSPECTS; MEAN SIZE; MODEL-BASED SEGMENTATION; SENSING MATERIAL; STEM VOLUME; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; TROPICAL CONDITIONS; TROPICAL FOREST;

DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; REMOTE SENSING;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; ALOS; DATA SET; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; FOREST MANAGEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TROPICAL FOREST;

DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FORESTS; REMOTE SENSING;

LAOS;

EID: 84870704790     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.11.006     Document Type: Article

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