Developing a forest data portal to support multi-scale decision making

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1692-1999

  Mcinerney, Daniel ^a   Bastin, Lucy ^a   Diaz, Laura ^b   Figueiredo, Carlos ^c   Barredo, Jose I ^a   San Miguel Ayanz, Jesús ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^c Monte da Caparica   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Earth observation; forest monitoring; interoperability; map viewer; metadata

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DATA PORTAL; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; FOREST CHANGE; FOREST MONITORING; FOREST RESOURCES; INFORMATION PORTALS; KYOTO PROTOCOL; MULTISCALES; OPEN STANDARDS; POLICY MAKERS; SPATIAL SCALE; TIMBER PRODUCTION;

BIODIVERSITY; DATA HANDLING; DATA TRANSFER; DECISION MAKING; DIGITAL STORAGE; EMISSION CONTROL; INTEROPERABILITY; METADATA; PORTALS;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EOS; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; KYOTO PROTOCOL; MAINTENANCE; METADATA; POLICY MAKING;

BIODIVERSITY; DATA PROCESSING; DATA STORAGE; DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MONITORING;

EID: 84872084982     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2194136     Document Type: Article

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