Optical and SAR sensor synergies for forest and land cover mapping in a tropical site in West Africa

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 7-16

  Laurin, Gaia Vaglio ^a,g   Liesenberg, Veraldo ^b   Chen, Qi ^d   Guerriero, Leila ^a   Del Frate, Fabio ^a   Bartolini, Antonio ^a   Coomes, David ^c   Wilebore, Beccy ^c   Lindsell, Jeremy ^e   Valentini, Riccardo ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^g CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Avnir 2; Classification; Forests; Landsat; Sar; Texture; West africa

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; AVNIR; DATA SET; FOREST COVER; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAPPING; PATCHINESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEXTURE; TROPICAL REGION;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84872809169     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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