Tropical forest remote sensing services for the Democratic Republic of Congo case inside the EU FP7 'ReCover' project (1st iteration)

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 6392-6395

  Haarpaintner, J ^a   Einzmann, K ^a   Pedrazzani, D ^b   Mateos San Juan, M T ^b   Gomez Gimenez M ^b   Heinzel, J ^c   Enssle F ^c   Mane, L ^d  

^a NORUT IT   (Norway)

^b GMV   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d OSFAC ^*  (Democratic Republic Congo)

Author keywords

GMES service development; REDD; remote sensing; SAR; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

AVNIR-2; BIOMASS MAP; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO; ENVISAT ASAR; IMAGE MOSAIC; LANDSAT 7; METHOD DEVELOPMENT; OPTICAL SATELLITES; REDD; SAR; SATELLITE DATA; SERVICE DELIVERY; SERVICE DEVELOPMENT; SPACE-BORNE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY; TROPICAL FOREST; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; ITERATIVE METHODS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPACE OPTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

CONGO; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTICS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

EID: 84873172097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352722     Document Type: Conference Paper

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