Mapping Congo Basin vegetation types from 300 m and 1 km multi-sensor time series for carbon stocks and forest areas estimation

Biogeosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 5061-5079

  Verhegghen, A ^a   Mayaux, P ^b   De Wasseige, C ^c   Defourny, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c Observatory for the Forests of Central Africa (OFAC)   (Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON BUDGET; CLOUD COVER; ENVISAT-1; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAND COVER; MERIS; PHENOLOGY; REFLECTANCE; SAVANNA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPOT; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION TYPE;

ATLANTIC COAST [AFRICA]; CONGO BASIN;

EID: 84870948657     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-9-5061-2012     Document Type: Article

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